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My struggle to keep the language of painting alive

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Julian and Julian

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My great uncle was an anomaly on the Armenian side of the family, that came to this country at the beginning of the 20thc. The family was w...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Link to an essay I wrote for Addison Parks's show at Crieger-Dane in 2000

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http://www.bowstreetgallery.com/Addison_Parks/Catalogue_Essay.html
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Addison has reprised a conversation I had with him from 1999

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A Painting from the show at Crieger-Dane on Newbury St Boston Link: Art Deal Magazine  or read it here: ...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

My review of Cosima Spender's film"Without Gorky"

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--> “Without Gorky” a documentary about the family of Arshile Gorky made by his granddaughter Cosima Spender was shown this...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

A great example of writing that let's things be without killing the subject with labels.

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http://artdealmagazine.blogspot.com/
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Monday, April 9, 2012

Addison Parks reassessment of his Forrest Bess essay from 30 years ago

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link
Saturday, March 31, 2012

I discovered this painting I did in the 90's on line .It had been in auction in Provincetown last year.

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http://www.bakkerart.com/2011_Sampler_Auction.html Scroll down to the M's.It did not sell according to the text file.It was from a ...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

There seems to be a momentary revival of interest in Forrest Bess.Roberta Smith wrote about him in the NY Times.Here is Addison Parks from 1981 in a much more insightful essay

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http://www.forrestbess.com/ Compare Parks to Roberta Smith's need to put Bess into the context of the Minimali...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Elaboration of a recent essay from my blog appears on Berkshire Fine Arts

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Berkshire Fine Arts                                              A work by Don Shambroom in the Met
Sunday, March 4, 2012

After Becketts's struggles during WW11,fighting with the resistance and trying to not be caught by the Nazi's,a change came over his work.Some called it a sort of passivity.I think openess would be a better term,closer to Meister Eckhardt's Gelassenheit.This quote points to what happened within him.

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At the close of this long, impassioned letter of March 9, 1949, Beckett declares himself “no longer capable of writing in any sust...
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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Martin Mugar
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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