Saturday, January 28, 2006

Rose Museum...

So, today Syl and I went out to the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, to look at an exhibition of work by Dana Schutz that I've wanted to see. Interesting... quite delicious painting in areas, unexpected colors. I'm not sure that I know the stories in these figurative works... the people are either eating themselves or rebuilding with scavenged parts. The figures are carefully clumsy and in the more portrait like pieces more intact than the "discovered" body parts that occur in the larger, more populated paintings. The interesting piece was "Google", an image of the artist at the computer, dated 2005... (with a calendar for December 2005 on the wall)...much more literal than anything else in the show.
Dunno if I'm ever going to understand how one goes from the brush to squeezing onto the canvas directly from the tube...

Friday, January 27, 2006

It's About Time !!!

Oh, dear...
Well, I'm finally back to it. I think... hopefully, we'll get better as we go along.
It's a busy winter, more work than usual. (how is it that I'm still poverty stricken)?
Paul and I were trying to finish up a job today, but that didn't happen. A few more doors to paint and artwork to be placed.
To the pub we go... The People's Republik... no heat... at least the second time this week. The Plough and Stars is still locked up... it's been sold and all that, but there seems to be little effort toward reopening the joint.
In the meantime, we've quit smoking, here... me, cold turkey. Not too big a deal most of the time, since I haven't smoked during the day for a couple of years. So, at home there are a few "moments".
I've been painting pictures with the intent of flogging them to the art consultants, as I've been watching them sell crap for a while. We'll see...
We'll visit a museum tomorrow...