Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Starting with Anthony Powell and ending with De Kooning via Hegel

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  Several weeks ago I was invited to lunch by a good friend,Addison Parks, who asked several mutual acquaintan...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Impossiblity of transcendence in American Art

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I remember a n artis t, who had recently lost his wife to cancer,  telling me of his inquiry into what various religions had to say about t...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

"The Humpty Dumpty effect": once the veneer of reality is broken in 20thc art by the analysis of the a priori visual structure that shapes that reality, the whole cannot be reconstructed.I accept this as having been inevitable but it still haunts me as the burden of the Modern condition.You can't go back to the garden.

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I sent this to someone who wanted to read an excerpt of my drawing book.I edited it some more and as always amazed at how infin...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Just stumbled across this reply to my Lester Johnson piece on Berkshire Fine Arts by the poet Rosanna Warren. Google every gallery on earth and you will find 99% are exhibiting "one show": a found object(ersatz sculpture ) on the floor, photo-document on the wall and a pseudo-profound statement about some group in need of uplift into the Hegelian dialectic.Global group think!!

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Figurative Expressionist:Lester Johnson --> Dear Martin, What an extraordinary piece. I wish I could have seen the Johnson ...
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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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