Painting

My struggle to keep the language of painting alive

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Giuliano's sister Pip's travels abroad bring back memories of France in the 70's and my introduction to Weltschmerz

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  I had hitchhiked my way up from the Midi to Alsace via Paris where I spent some time with Alix and then moved on to find more work as a fa...
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Saturday, April 2, 2022

Charles Giuliano's 150 years celebration and survey of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Charles Giuliano  This document of the 150 year history of the Museum of Fine Arts is mostly cobbled together from interviews by Charles Gi...
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Saturday, February 5, 2022

"Authority and Freedom" by Jed Perl

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  In his latest book “Authority and Freedom”, Perl establishes a paradigm that spells out a healthy antidote to the purpose for which art is...
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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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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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