Painting

My struggle to keep the language of painting alive

Saturday, December 18, 2021

The painting of Don Shambroom

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 Don Shambroom and his work looms large in my blogging that started in 2012. Mostly his opinions that have been shared with me either at vis...
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Friday, December 3, 2021

Miles Hall who previously interviewed me on my painting has written a sympathetic appraisal of my book on drawing and painting

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  Drawing and Painting: Perceptual theory as a basis for learning how to draw, by Martin G. Mugar    While Mugar never mentions the construc...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

Forge at Betty Cuningham and Dave Row in Rockland Maine

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Sunday, June 6, 2021

Is there a Connection between Materiality and Painting from the French Deconstructionists to Ha Chong Yuan

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Almost a year after I wrote my essay in 2013 on Zombie Abstraction I got an email from Mark Stone at https://henrimag.com/ that I had receiv...
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Friday, January 15, 2021

Outside the Walls, a meditation on the contemporary scene

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 One thing I miss is the time when America had big dreams about the future. Now it seems like nobody has big hopes for the future. We all se...
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Monday, October 5, 2020

Divagations on Jed Perl's second volume of "Calder"

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As I began to think about finishing my reading and reviewing Jed Perl’s monumental second volume of the life of Calder, the art world was in...
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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Photographer Joseph Podlesnik and Provisional Painting

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There is an old Maine locution “You can’t get there from here” that is a response to a question from a lost driver getting directions in ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

As good as it gets on the internet (Or the Three Penny Author)

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I put my blogposts on Medium, a site that promotes writing on the web. My writing rarely gets any feedback as adjudged from the dearth of ...
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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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