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My struggle to keep the language of painting alive

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

As artist we live mostly surrounded by incomprehension of various varieties. Sometimes there is disdain and resentiment or pure philistine disgust for someone who dedicates their life to the pursuit of a private vision. This article reinforced this notion.There is a happy end to the story:at least over time the writer met me half way.I have added a few more slights to make my point.

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The Weekly Dig 2006 Martin Mugar at New England School of Art and Design KATE LEDOGAR A few summers ago, my sister and I t...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

The late Addison Parks's blog was always worth reading: Especially this response to de Kooning's letter to the editor written upon the death of Arshile Gorky

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http://artdealmagazine.blogspot.com/ here is a recollection of Addison https://martinmugar.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-recollection-of-addi...
Monday, December 12, 2011

An excerpt from a book I am writing on drawing in particular some points on Erwin Hauer's sculpture class at Yale

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Al Held from 1965 link to my book on Amazon To say as I did earlier that I learned most drawing techniques on my own is...
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I am an artist and art critic whose ideas have shaped the discussion of postmodern art as well as the ideas behind Modernism.In particular some people think I coined Zombie Formalism
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