Saturday, December 10, 2011

Art as Survival of the Fittest

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AL HELD At Yale 1972-1974 Held Our relationship was fraught with conflict, a conflict he enjoyed, I am sure, as his ...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Chuck Close passes away at 81(originally written in 2005 and republished in 2011)

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CLOSE Part of the urban legend surrounding Chuck Close is the rationale he gave for his stylistic move to figuration upon hi...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A recollection of Edwin Dickinson published on Berkshire Fine Arts

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http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/08-31-2007_recalling-edwin-dickinson.htm
Saturday, December 3, 2011

I was pleased to learn that one of my paintings c.1991 sold at auction in North Carolina.It was in the private collection of the owner of Somerhill Gallery

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http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10285142
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Happy to get the following comments from Facebook Friends

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From Chris Busa of "Provincetown Arts" "Martin offers a blast of powerful passion, kept in a bottle for a long time. His wo...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

I wrote this piece on Sargent for Addison Park's "Artdeal" in 1999.

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Monday, November 28, 2011

"Modern Painters" considered this article for publication in an issue on Cezanne.The editor, Karen Wright, said it was "thought provoking".

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  --> Impressions of France: Money, Renoir, Pisarro and Their Rivals Fall 1995,The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ...
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Friday, November 25, 2011

Paul Pollaro, a student at UNH, when I taught there in 1980, asked me to write something about his work for a show we had hoped a local gallery would give us.We never heard back from them and in the meantime he landed a show at HP Garcia in New York.Scorned by a backwater gallery(both literally and figuratively) in Kittery, ME, but now showing in the Big Apple,I thought I would publish the words just the same.

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When I was an undergraduate art student at Yale I would observe the work of the graduate students during the critiques. There was one ...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Article in "Berkshire Fine Arts" on Larry Deyab at Bow St ,Cambridge

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http://www.zieglergalerie.com/ Larry Deyab,who now shows with Bow Street in Cambridge fits into the aesthetic of owner Addison Parks fir...

Here is a link to an article about Lester Johnson that I wrote for Berkshire Fine Arts

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Lester Johnson at the Acme Gallery Boston.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

In rereading this essay I was struck by the author's reference to "willed vulgarity".I think what she is refering to was my conscious decision to accept our basic human condition of irrationality and raw will.It is something picked up stylistically from the late Guston.We must start from "the cruel chaotic base" before we can pretend to have any"raffinement".

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  Camp on Canvas: Martin Mugar            “My painting is about the desire that underlies the facts,” writes Martin ...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

The last few paragraphs of my book on teaching painting and drawing

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--> Afterword: It was the goal of art from the Renaissance to the end of the19thc to put in front of the viewer a world of ...