Still Life, Conch, Skull, Pears & Letters to Theo
It’s been a while since I’ve added new work here. This painting was done in the Fall.
The following slide show includes new works and some earlier paintings that have gone further than when last shown.
Avant Garde. We all know what that means! We learned it in school!
There was always something of a cognitive dissonance, sitting in a slide-show survey class and taking notes to regurgitate on a test about how the modern avant garde was – and therefore supposedly still is – so transgressive! The old story about how it was a rebellion against the bad old Academy,
“Repeat after me! The Avant Garde rebelled against the Academy!”
oil on canvas, 11 x 14
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum holds an annual Winter Members’ Show. I’ve entered this painting, Right Here!
This painting is available for purchase, priced at $385. The show will be up from November 10 – January 8, 2012.
I’m involved in a few conversations on the needfulness of art. This fragment of a quotation from Carl Jung seems an appropriate place to begin.
In a time when the hot-house strains of art criticism that have so long been the “High-brow” approach to questions of art join most other expert-led monopolies on thought in a growing irrelevancy, it’s important to begin again at the foundation of questions of art and its place. Andrew Taggart’s essay linked to above, and the thread it is a part of, is a good introduction to these questions and to how the current status quo has failed.
My own intuition has always led me to mutter under my breath that art exists in relationship to Truth. No matter how hopelessly unfashionable this has been, I’ve never let it go.
oil on paper
