Tag Archives: painting

Getting Recognition

Posted on September 24, 2018 by JMN

Once, when asked about discrimination against female artists, the Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner said the bias was as old as Judeo-Christian history. Brushing aside the weight of that realization, she added, “There’s nothing I can do about those 5,000 years.” … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Tongues

Posted on September 23, 2018 by JMN
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Garabatos

Posted on September 23, 2018 by JMN
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Feelings and Imagination

Posted on September 19, 2018 by JMN

I once authored a proto-blog in the BI (Before Internet) epoch, an ante-deluvian moment on the cyber-scale of time. I was based in a rambling bayou city situated in a large, hidebound, arrière-garde, rump-facing state of the sector of the … Continue reading →

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Feast for the Eye

Posted on September 16, 2018 by JMN

“That bastard. He’s really good.” (Picasso to Françoise Gilot, about Delacroix) “The first merit of painting is to be a feast for the eye.” (Delacroix’s last journal entry, June 1863) (Quotes from Roberta Smith, “At the Met Museum, the Grand … Continue reading →

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The Blanco River, by Molly O’Halloran

Posted on September 12, 2018 by JMN

This picture captured me. The act of hand-drawing and painting a map must tap into deep reserves of disciplined obsession. I live toward the bottom of the Guadalupe-Blanco Watershed. When it rains heavily up country it’s possible the mighty Wadi-Loopy … Continue reading →

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Grandma Moses

Posted on September 7, 2018 by JMN

I like to paint something that leads me on and on in to the unknown something that I want to see away on beyond.  (Anna Mary Robertson Moses, from her autobiography, quoted in the NYTimes “Friday Briefing,” 9-7-18) [Copyright (c) … Continue reading →

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“Big ego, low self-esteem”

Posted on August 26, 2018 by JMN

Is there a certain type of artwork that you keep in your bedroom? Strangely, there are works of mine in the bedroom, but they’re not works that I’ve shown. They’re experiments with painting, plants and patterns, very quiet things. I … Continue reading →

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Personal Goal

Posted on August 20, 2018 by JMN

When I was a student of literature I recall being influenced by a school of critical theory (Rene Wellek?) that said an author’s biography was irrelevant to a consideration of his or her text. Once it was loosed from the … Continue reading →

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“Toot Toot Tutu Toodle-oo.”

Posted on August 2, 2018 by JMN

New words encountered! Courtesy of Roberta Smith, “Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art,” NYTimes. “gamin” — Ms. Hearne was a gamin performance artist turned art dealer with an audacious eye… [I knew this word from French … Continue reading →

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