Imagine what America would look like if it were ruled by corporations and institutions that paid off politicians and got away with doing whatever they wanted in their own self-interest. Somehow it would look exactly like it does now.
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Runaway Rant: How to Recognize Evil
We’re not allowed to talk about evil in polite society. It’s considered almost so backward as to be medieval. But the real reason is that evil will not stand for being pointed out and always masquerades as good. Nobody comes right out and acknowledges that they are doing evil things, except perhaps the Marquis de…
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Video Release: A New Look at The Last of England
My latest video. This one’s more straight-up art history, but with some significant observations and analysis that are all my own and you won’t find anywhere else.
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My YouTube Channel Got a Makeover
My channel has a new look and a new beginning
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New Video: IS AI THE END OF ART?
The video is based on a recent blog post, which you may have read, which was in turn based on a Twitter thread I wrote that got exactly 1 like. [And hey, just an aside, but Elon has been a serious disappointment on Twitter. Not only did he never make the algorithms public as promised,…
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Inspiring Art by Independent Artists (Ep. 5): Includes my Art.
The video by one of the best art YouTubers showcases several of my best pieces.
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A Tragic Self-Portrait at Sea: The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown
“The Last of England” by Ford Madox Brown is not only a super-crisp, vivid image that perfectly captures the sensations of being in a small boat tossed about at sea. It is a tragic self-portrait of the artist, his wife, and their baby, leaving England never to return, hoping to find better prospects in some distant land.
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The Future of Visual Art May Be Physical, and Other Art Blogger’s Recent Physical Art
AI may sour people to art that has anything to do machine learning or processes, and cause a renewed appreciation of physical art.
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“Kiss of Death” revised B&W plus new color version [reaction to AI].
The reason I’m exploring this style right now has a lot to do with AI. It’s done using only my own imagination and skills. It also goes against everything I learned in my advanced art classes in university. This piece was a bit of an experiment and template. It’s not a new style for me.…
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Signature Style
I’ve worked in a lot of styles over the years, and invented several. I have not made a concerted effort to develop one style, preferring to explore a full range of possibilities. Consequently, some people think I don’t have a style of my own. Here are 52 images which share that they are created 100%…
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New Art: The Whisper
There’s no AI, no appropriation, no references, no photo-bashing, no filters, no uploaded sculpts, no gimmick… It’s essentially just drawing from my imagination.
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New Art: Kiss of Death
I do this sort of art sometimes when I need a break, don’t feel like studying, learning programs, looking at references, grappling with AI, modeling, or making sketches. In short, I feel like making art, but I don’t feel like “working”. It’s a lot like doodling, or just picking up a guitar and playing without…
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New Art: Golgolon 023
It would be rather shallow to see this image as an irreverent sci-fi drawing. Rather, it’s a very eerie, retro sci-fi, darkly spiritual, contemporary art image that fits into the long history of crucifixions in the annals of art.
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AI Won. Human Artists and Humankind are Defeated.
It used to be that we would say that a work of art was pretty good for AI. From now on we will say that it is pretty good for a human.
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Protected: Rolling Stone’s Top 200 Singers of All Time List – How Art Criticism Face-plants in 2023.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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WIP, with an alien in a landscape
Quite a departure from my last work, this one’s much more illustrational, sci-fi, and I’m going about it in a more traditional/methodical (as pertains to digital painting) approach. A major difference is that the last piece was all about the painterly impasto techniques, and this one has none of that. It shows promise, but it’s…
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New Art: “Passengers on the Dystopia Express”, and a brief intro to Francis Bacon.
My latest art work, and how it relates to the work of Francis Bacon.
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Runaway Rant: ‘Twas an Ebeneezer Potter Xmas
[written in one sitting as fast as I could because I got a guest coming. Note, my Xmas was fine. Enjoyed the vintage Americana I indulged in, from listening to classic Xmas tunes, to watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the first time, and spending it with my wife, etc. Here, I’m talking about the…
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Runaway Rant: The Trump NFTs are Par for the Course
After a long yawn, I can sum up my reaction to the launch of the cards, the artwork, the content, and the fact that they sold out in a day with one word: Derp!
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New Video: Insisting Artists Work In One Style Limits Their Creativity
My new video argues against the demand that artists work in a single signature style for most or all of their careers. Jam-packed with hi-rez art, including 25 of my pieces in 25 styles.
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Insisting Artists Work In One Style Limits Their Creativity
This pressure to stick to one avenue of expression, and the exclusion of stylistic innovation, serves to choke artists’ creativity, and contextualizes them as craftspersons making pretty baubles for the marketplace.
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Protected: After 1 Year Participating in the NFT Community/Market
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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The Classic Post Nuclear Apocalypse Made-for-TV Movies
A concise review of the 2 classic nuclear aftermath films, with live links where you can watch them now for free and without signing up for anything.
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Big Eyes: The Film, The Artist, The Legacy
Through whatever alchemy, Margaret Keane turned her personal tragedy into painterly kitsch that managed to transcend itself.
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Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art
This is a re-blog of one of my most popular posts, which I am doing largely because people have notified me that they have difficulty finding it on my blog, though somehow they’re become aware of it. My views haven’t changed substantially since I wrote this, not because I haven’t changed, but because my views…
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Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
I take apart the institutional story of art which I was also indoctrinated into through graduate art school, and offer a more broad, human, complex, and even progressive alternative. This article will help you see through the BS that permeates much of contemporary art theory, and which is used to devalue imaginative visual art and to undermine the great art of the past.
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15 Artists as Cyclopes: complete series (with before and after pics)
This is an old post I am re-sharing from Feb, 2015, that fell through the cracks. I made 15 artists into cyclopes [and that is the corrected spelling of the plural of cyclops].
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New Art: Vehicular Monster Slaughter #1 [AI collab]
A new digital painting collaborating with AI, and of a creature sitting in a train or bus.
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