Et Tu Oisebae?
Hehehe...
This time I deleted the rant before I posted it...
So, in its place, I give you new art! 4 new paintings, plus 3 reworks! :D
24"x20"
24"x18"
24"x18"
28"x22"
40"x30"
36"x48"
40"x30"
"Painting is a youthful folly, which persists in old age"
--Joop Sanders (New York School Abstract Expressionist, and Willem de Kooning's friend)
It's funny. I just received these great survey of Abstract Expressionism books (which I will detail later), and those works have such gravity to them, they are "heavy" as the kids say, and then I look at my works, and they almost float buoyantly, and I wonder if something's wrong, and then I remember that they are they, and I am I, and that was then, and this is now.
Or more simply put, I'm from a different generation. It's really a post-modern shift, and that's what gives my work some degree of contemporaneity (something I've always worried about). The men and women of the New York School lived through very hard times (the depression and World War II) where reality was quite tangible and very "real," and I grew up in the great soda-pop-bubble of a television saturated consumer economy, in the "wonder years" of the kingdom of plenty, on the road to the land of Nod. There's no way that my expressionism will be the same as theirs', and there's no reason that it should be...
My work is valid, but it's from my time, and it's also reflective of my own personal genetically-endowed optimistic nature (Or as Francis Bacon said, "I'm profoundly optimistic about nothing!"). Even my recently painted daemons (several canvases from the Don Quixote series) seem to emerge as little floating balloons of fluffy happiness. No matter what life throws at me I just can't seem to let it get me down, in the long run...
It is interesting many people think my art is "optimistic." They are right, it is optimistic, as I generally seem to be, and I'm glad that that quality seems to come through overall; it means that I'm doing something right...
Oh well, I'm drunk and tired, and I feel damn happy and accomplished, even though...
This time I deleted the rant before I posted it...
So, in its place, I give you new art! 4 new paintings, plus 3 reworks! :D
24"x20"
24"x18"
24"x18"
28"x22"
40"x30"
36"x48"
40"x30"
"Painting is a youthful folly, which persists in old age"
--Joop Sanders (New York School Abstract Expressionist, and Willem de Kooning's friend)
It's funny. I just received these great survey of Abstract Expressionism books (which I will detail later), and those works have such gravity to them, they are "heavy" as the kids say, and then I look at my works, and they almost float buoyantly, and I wonder if something's wrong, and then I remember that they are they, and I am I, and that was then, and this is now.
Or more simply put, I'm from a different generation. It's really a post-modern shift, and that's what gives my work some degree of contemporaneity (something I've always worried about). The men and women of the New York School lived through very hard times (the depression and World War II) where reality was quite tangible and very "real," and I grew up in the great soda-pop-bubble of a television saturated consumer economy, in the "wonder years" of the kingdom of plenty, on the road to the land of Nod. There's no way that my expressionism will be the same as theirs', and there's no reason that it should be...
My work is valid, but it's from my time, and it's also reflective of my own personal genetically-endowed optimistic nature (Or as Francis Bacon said, "I'm profoundly optimistic about nothing!"). Even my recently painted daemons (several canvases from the Don Quixote series) seem to emerge as little floating balloons of fluffy happiness. No matter what life throws at me I just can't seem to let it get me down, in the long run...
It is interesting many people think my art is "optimistic." They are right, it is optimistic, as I generally seem to be, and I'm glad that that quality seems to come through overall; it means that I'm doing something right...
Oh well, I'm drunk and tired, and I feel damn happy and accomplished, even though...