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Tuesday, November 30th
AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL PARTY
 I went to New York over the weekend to go to a party. I flew into La Guardia Friday around noon and caught a cab to Williamsburg where I stayed with an old friend and former studio mate . Steven Burkart shared a studio loft with me in Columbus for about 8 years during the mid 90's. Steve is a fantastic abstract painter and also an art handler involved in moving the work from and to the Museum of Modern Art during their recent new construction period.
Steve's studio is on one of the quaint streets of Williamsburg with its long rows of 3 and 4 story brick and clapboard apartments amid warehouses and random bodegas and cafes. There is a contemporary art gallery on the main floor of the old warehouse called Momenta.
Walter King on 11.30.04 @ 10:43 PM EST [more..]
Sunday, November 28th
Milwaukee, Chicago, New York City, Albany and Philadelphia
Serving on a jury in Milwaukee to select artists for cash awards provided the perfect opportunity to review the local scene and talk in Chicago on the way home. Thanksgiving in Philadelphia offered the perfect reason to visit New York City and Albany prior to the family gathering.
Milwaukee
Home to the nation’s most thorough contemporary art collection, the Santiago Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum is always an adventure. Although several MAM galleries were closed for a benefit auction, there were plenty of wonderful works available. Of special note are Irene Rice Pereira’s gorgeous painting and Donald Judd’s incredibly “fun” wall sculpture, a series of brightly-colored Plexiglas boxes whose open sides encourage viewer engagement. “Hits of the ‘70s,” consisting of dozens of black and white photographs from MAM’s collection, offered an interesting glimpse into that era’s events/situations. Liam Gillick’s poetic text strung from the ceiling spanned the entire length of the western hallway. Also on view were hundreds of American masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of the Arts, including several stunning Heades.
Sue Spaid on 11.28.04 @ 10:36 PM EST [more..]
Wednesday, November 24th
Idea of an Art Psychology
 1. Art is perceptual; it is psychological.
2. The power of aesthetic perception is the interaction between the object and the beholder.
3. The experimental aesthetic value of even the most successful art pieces is relative with changes in time and conditions of the society in which it resides.
4. Art, being psychological, includes both unconscious as well as conscious processes of the beholder. Developing this awareness and receptivity of the art object is called the sensitivity of the beholder.
Pygoya on 11.24.04 @ 11:17 AM EST [more..]
Monday, November 22nd
Home/Studio Exhibitions
 I am about to launch my second home/studio exhibition( my studio is connect to my home ) This is a very effective and necessary way of promoting ones work and meeting new clients. It is an ideal way to reach a new audience and also to make some new friends. It seems to me that artists depend far too much on galleries, they should find new ways and means to encourage art sales, after all who is the expert when it comes to explaining the paintings and talking about the various ideas which inspired the work - the artist, of course !
From the initial idea to the final brushstroke the artist is with a painting, until it hangs on a gallery wall and suddenly 50% ( in some cases more ) of it belongs to the gallery !
John Nolan on 11.22.04 @ 10:03 AM EST [more..]
Friday, November 19th
Tenderness and delicacy.
 In March 2004 I went to Mongolia. A Mongolian Art-critic had seen my work on his Art-Travel trough Europe and invited me to exhibit in his country.
There was not enough time to make a solid preparation, to frame the paintings and to send them to Mongolia. So, very intuitively, I choose some smaller ones, put them on the bottom of my subcase and took the airoplane to Ulan Bator.
On the opening ceremony there were biscuits, fruit, a kind of sweet white sprinkling wine, romantic music and a very nice people. Among them a lot of artists who invited me to visit their studios and houses, what I did, during the next two weeks. I got flowers from a young girl who dreams of becoming an ambassador for her country and from a nice and handsome Japanese man I met on the airport. And again people liked my paintings and began to communicate about their lives, feelings and desires.
Monique Veyt on 11.19.04 @ 08:07 AM EST [more..]
Wednesday, November 17th
SPECTACLES
 Why art is important from the beginning of human live
Thinking about art, art-in-nature, painting etc. I discovered two major points. I had some notion about it when I started several years ago and said; ‘Art flywheel of society’. I got a lot of comments. How can I say this, what was my point exactly and the economy is the supreme flywheel. So I had a lot to explain and it was hard to explain also in a short discussion. After some time, starting with my flames, I got another quote. I expressed ‘the flame of art moves the world’. A statement that is just a little easier to explain. So the energy art gives to the artists and the audience moves them to another points of view and is leading people to see the world in a new light. It is the engine of creativity. Okay, okay.. not everybody is seeing this point and I was very enthusiast later when I found a metaphor for art: spectacles, a pair of glasses.
Adri AC de Fluiter on 11.17.04 @ 10:34 AM EST [more..]
Friday, November 12th
Interactive Lecture
 Today I am excited.
Very excited!
Tomorrow I'll make my first Interactive Lecture.
The only thing I need is a projector and a fast line to the internet.
The only thing I bring is myself.
On the internet I have made 1950 web pages to choose from.
And as every image on these pages represents one or several stories my lecture can go on for ever.
In the past I have made a lot of lectures. In schools, in universities, in companies, in associations, in counties, in municipalities - you name it.
I thought the preparations were very time-consuming and boring, and I often did not use the pictures, the slides, the transparents etc. etc. that I had prepared.
Questions and remarks from the audience often altered the whole context of the lecture.
Therefore the interactive lecture.
My contact person has informed me about a theme of the lecture, so I know where to start.
After that it is the dialog with the audience that guides us through the lecture.
If the audience is not very active, I'll guide the audience.
If the lecture moves too far away from the read thread in the theme, I'll make an invisible change of subject.
Asbjorn Lonvig on 11.12.04 @ 09:54 AM EST [more..]
Wednesday, November 10th
Who owns artists' emotions?
 Are suffering, distress and anxiety mandatory requirements needed to produce strong and emotionally engaging art? Could a good artist be a member of “the 9 to 5, plus a mortgage and 2.3 kids” set? Inevitably, all art as well as our thoughts are shaped by personal experiences, inner fears and desires. Does the art get progressively better when its creator’s life is filled with hardship and tragic events?
Ausra Larbey on 11.10.04 @ 08:37 AM EST [more..]
Monday, November 8th
Heaven is a place...
 Had I known this blog business would be so difficult I would have stuck to the studio and carried on with everything in silence. To go on with them as planned I realise that I face the risk of shutting down doors we managed to open with effort. Friends I have made, citizens of the enclave, whose confidence I went out of my way to gain and without whose engagement and enthusiasm the art forum would never have taken-off may feel slighted by my portrayal of things. On the other hand what would be the point of wasting your time with the setting up of an artists’ association if there had been nothing to it? [In the world that you and I are accustomed to, artists meet, they strike up a friendship, write a manifesto and find the legal advice to set things up and get to work… end of story.]
Jose Freitas Cruz on 11.08.04 @ 09:29 AM EST [more..]
Friday, November 5th
From the Crib, 1953
 An artist's work, most sincere, is created upon all the knowledge accumulated in a life's worth of time, and reflects the benefits of relating to a unique collection of memories. An artist's memories are so tied to the core of their art, and, for whatever other reasons they have to create - the essence of their memories will certainly fingerprint their work and effect it's clarity.
Who can say, exactly, how or why our earliest childhood memories may be carried along with us. So many inevitably fall to the wayside of time, or the lack of exercising contemplation. Others remain as consequences of vivid, traumatic events that brew up the chemistry of our recollections consciously, and sometimes subconsciously. Primary ingredients of reminiscences must be emotions - especially those wrapped around the warmth of a parent's loving embrace, or debilitating neglect... Such brandishing likely marks deeply upon our cultivating persona, declared invariably thru the summoning of hidden and recallable memories.
Brad Michael Moore on 11.05.04 @ 11:38 AM EST [more..]
Wednesday, November 3rd
Japan (Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo)
If you plan to visit western Japan, I recommend staying in Kyoto, even if your itinerary takes you to Osaka daily, as mine did. Steeped in serenity and the scent of Golden Star trees, Kyoto’s charming scenery truly relaxes after a day of swift sight-seeing. There’s nothing more invigorating than an evening stroll along Kyoto’s rushing Kamo River or through its narrow, moon-lit alleys. Those who stay within walking distance of a Keihan Railway station or near one of the many Kyoto buses that stop at its stations can take direct trains to several Osaka stops. If you purchase a four-day Japan Rail pass, trips begin and end at Kyoto Central Station, itself an architectural wonder. Either way, visit the main station for Tourist Information (9th floor) and the ATM (located in a store across the street in the Kyoto Tower’s basement).
Sue Spaid on 11.03.04 @ 08:50 AM EST [more..]
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