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Micro-Landscape Painting: Red #2

Here is a 16" x 20" acrylic painting. It is part of a series where I drop a colored napkin on a table and then look for a close up that provides a good image. 

 

Photos of People Looking at Art at the MOMA in NYC

I was recently in New York and went to the Museum of Modern Art.  I was interested in looking at the art and the people looking at the art.  There was an exhibit of performance art where people got to sit and stare at the artist, Marina Abramovic: the Artist is Present, That is the first photo below and then others follow. You can click on an image to enlarge it.  

                                  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Photos of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010: Summary

This concludes a series of photos of New Orleans neighborhoods mostly taken in February 2010 the weekend before the Super Bowl victory and two weeks for Mardi Gras. There are I certainly did not have time to cover them all but this series will provide a glimpse of the city that I hope you will want to visit.

I have only covered a small amount of the city. There is so much more including Treme, the area highlighted in the great new HBO series by that name. Here is a useful overview map of the neighborhoods. Officially there are 13 planning districts and 72 distinct neighborhoods created in 1980 by the New Orleans City Planning Commission. I started with the French Quarter and worked my way along the Mississippi River west toward the two areas within the East Carrollton neighborhood where I lived in the 1950s. Then I continued in a clockwise manner and went north to the West End and City Park before going back east to the Lower Ninth Ward.

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part One: Upper French Quarter

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Two: Lower French Quarter

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Three: Lower Decatur Street Area

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Four: Frenchman Street

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Five: Garden District

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Six: The Columns Hotel

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Seven: Uptown above St. Charles Avenue

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Eight: Magazine Street East of Jackson Avenue

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Nine: Magazine Street West of Jackson Avenue

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Ten: Uptown Below Magazine Street

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods Part Eleven: Audubon Zoo

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Twelve: Uptown – Riverbend and Our First Apartment

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Thirteen: Uptown Off Carrollton and Our First House

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Fourteen: New Orleans Cemetery

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods Part Fifteen: West End, New Orleans

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods 2010 Part Sixteen: City Park

Images of New Orleans Neighborhoods Part Seventeen: Lower Ninth Ward

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New Orleans Restaurant Update Winter 2010

Brief Explorations in New Orleans Live Music 2010

Red Micro-Landscape Paintings - Warmth

Here is the second in a series of abstract paintings. It is a 16" x 20" acrylic based on a red napkin that I tossed on table until i go the folds I wanted.

   

 
 

Painting of Green Abstraction

I started a new category with this work as it is my first abstract painting. It is a 16" x 20" acrylic painting that is based on a close up detail of my green rain coat.

  

  

Artist Liz Sweibel New Web Site Is Inviting

My artist friend Liz Sweibel has upgraded her Web site to show us some interesting works.   There is a variety of categories to explore.  I went first to Collage/Drawing.  Within this group I was first drawn to Interiors. Each of these tiny collages began with a "before" photo from Architectural Digest. There are ten of them. Each one of these small works (barely a few inches but framed in a larger box) is intriguing and priced very reasonably.   There is a means to purchase the works directly through the site.

The Interiors are sparse and have a sense of anticipation. They remind me a bit of the interior paintings by the Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia that I saw at the MFA in Boston in 2008.  There is a stark realism that draws you in. As the MFA wrote about Garcia, “His masterful paintings of the prosaic, familiar places of his world …reveal an unusual sensitivity to his subject. Through uncompromising study of his subjects, he has imbued the commonplace with a haunting and extraordinary character…at once brilliant and subdued, ethereal and fleeting, and palpable.”  I think this also applies to Liz’s Interior collages.

Staying with Collage/Drawing I next went to Plans. As Liz wrote, “These later collages, also small, use drawings appropriated from a book on Italian architects as their starting point.” There is a nice juxtaposition of construction and drawing in each image. They are also small and small is a good size for these images. A number of them remind me of my last trip to Italy.

Still within Collage/Drawing, I was drawn to Stamps. They are a “labor-intensive series of sheets of stamps, each stamp a tiny collage. The stamps led to the more personal, meditative Interiors collages.”  The labor is evident but so is the thought that went into it. These are a bit larger but still under a foot on the side.

The Snapshot Series are described by Liz “as a quick, informal way to capture patterns in the physical world that embody ideas that interest me, then crop each image until it's reduced and elevated to something essential.” A group of images titled Property Lines shows the point of contact between neighbors.  There are some nice images here that have a sense of being at connection points and leave you to imagine what is being connected.  This is a good thing, as the point of connection stands on its own. There is much more to explore on this art site and I encourage you to take a look.  Check out her blog for more context. 

Painting of my Art Duffle Bag: Number 5

Here is a 20" x 24" acrylic painting of the duffle I use to carry my art supplies. It is part of a series on this image using different colors. My last post showed two blue and red versions. This one is the reverse of the original colors.

 

Two Red White and Blue Paintings of My Art Duffle Bag

Here are two 20" x 24" acrylic paintings of the duffle bag I use to carry my art supplies.  The actual colors are a purple bag with blue green handles. I started with the actual colors and you can find two versions including under the still life category in the right column. I then decided to vary the colors in a series. Here are the first two. I am working on a reverse of the actual colors as a next step.