This 2017 movie is available on YouTube in glorious HD. Bacon is probably my second favorite painter after Van Gogh, and then I don’t even have a #3 (unless it’s me). Bacon’s sordid personal life, however, is not my cup of tea (there’s a very heavy dose of sado-masochism in that brew). The film lovingly…
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Another Critic Hates Francis Bacon, and is Clueless
I just happened across a 2015 article – “Francis Bacon and the Masters review – a cruel exposure of a con artist” – by Jonathan Jones of The Guardian fame, about how he can no longer take Bacon seriously, in which case I can no longer take Jonathan Jones seriously. It very well may be…
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New gallery for my early drawings, paintings, and sculpture
Below are large Jpegs of the same images, with links to individual posts with more information about them, details, and prices. Each image below can be clicked on in order to view it sized for your monitor. And beneath each image is a link to a post with more information about it.
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Fun House Fever (from the early work archive)
This one’s a good mix of horror, sci-fi, Francis Bacon, Expressionism and an obvious nod to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” in particular (though that has never been one of my favorite paintings). This is one of a series of a dozen 3X4′ acrylic paintings I did when I was in my early 20s.
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The Opening of the Ripened Mind: details, process, and explication
[Above is a gallery with details of the image, and below they appear again with context.] [Note: 12/1/2014 I’m revising this one right now.] I’m pleased with this piece, and think I’ve brought together several approaches I’ve developed in other pieces and integrated them into something new. Though this is “digital art”, it’s in the…
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Vincent’s dead but he never gets old, and Jeff Koons is already a skeleton.
Why Van Gogh’s work still has vitality, and Jeff Koons’ work was stillborn. Admittedly, Van Gogh’s work DOES suffer from posthumously being made into a whopping cliché. He’s been sentenced to the level of over-reproduction that guarantees most people will be sick of his work before they ever have a chance to understand it, the same way…
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The Menagerie
This is #4 of a series of 12, 3X4 ft. acrylic paintings done >20 years ago. [Note: I actually did all but 3 of these before I started at UCLA. During my first semester I had a painting class in which the teacher rejected this style because it was figurative, and she made abstract work.]…
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Provocative previously unreleased quotes by famous artists, writers, and philosophers… (Part 1)
A veritable treasure trove of previously undocumented quotes by famous artists, writers, philosophers and other major cultural icons has just been released. I took it upon myself to create easily-sharable graphics for each of them. If you want to share, these will fit perfectly as images on your facebook wall (if you download them and…
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Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt
One of the very best artists I’ve discovered through prowling around on the internet (in this case at Deviantart) is Andrew Newton, who did rather tight photo-realistic paintings in the past (the type that show every wrinkle, reflection, and wayward hair); but whose new work has broken out imaginatively into new terrain that faithfulness to…
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