tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post1104265193861728597..comments2024-03-26T10:07:14.049-04:00Comments on Painting: Porfirio DiDonna: "A Painters Journey" at the Danforth MuseumMartin Mugarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-88647913131226537402020-02-10T17:07:58.698-05:002020-02-10T17:07:58.698-05:00nice to stumble across the kind words of Chris Bus...nice to stumble across the kind words of Chris Busa.He added to all the good things that Provincetown gave me from showing at the Rising Tide to the article Chris encouraged Rosanna Warren to write on my work in Provincetown arts and sadly the obit for Truro resident Addison Parks that in a way ended any connection with that wonderful town.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-47873176820431814582013-11-24T08:16:43.647-05:002013-11-24T08:16:43.647-05:00I think that my less than charitable comments abou...I think that my less than charitable comments about Berthot would have been modified if I had recalled what I had said about Dickinson on Berkshire Fine Arts.He is really in the line of 19th c transcendentalist painters and should be seen as such.<br />http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/08-31-2007_recalling-edwin-dickinson.htmMartin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-37877430891128611962013-10-22T06:52:37.524-04:002013-10-22T06:52:37.524-04:00Here I want to praise passion for serious painting...Here I want to praise passion for serious painting, so unknowable, yet summoned via Martin Mugar’s latest blog on the painting of a departed soul, named DiDonna. I was moved by Mugar’s own passion and want only to say that such cries of the heart need to be recognized as they occur, spontaneously, out of nowhere, out of simple love of what painting can inspire. We all try to say something we love, fear, and confront, but often we are muted. Why? Why, why, why? Let us not shut our mouths when we care so deeply for what a painting can say. God bless this holy blog, so uncommon in today’s writing about art. Chris Busa, www,provincetownarts.orgChris Busahttp://provincetownarts.org/beta/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-25077515845973008492013-09-25T20:36:30.356-04:002013-09-25T20:36:30.356-04:00Craig,
Thank you for responding.I tried to see his...Craig,<br />Thank you for responding.I tried to see his painting as a work in progress that indeed pulled together to create an impressive body of work just before he died.If in fact he was on a spiritual quest then we have been denied what would have been further stages of insight and enlightenment.Reminds me of the premature death of Thomas Merton just as he was about to achieve a synthesis of Christianity and Buddhism.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-43692013478112483492013-09-23T21:36:36.800-04:002013-09-23T21:36:36.800-04:00Martin
Thoughtful and authentic response to the wo...Martin<br />Thoughtful and authentic response to the work. I find DiDonna's work endlessly satisfying as he works with line color and form...a centrality yes but also a constant ability to just alter or leave completeness undone in a way that moves me both as a painter and as someone looking for such places.craig stockwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08228943298221523072noreply@blogger.com