The 4th Annual Carrboro Film Festival will be held on Sunday, November 22, 2009 from 2-7 pm in the Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro Street. The committee is now accepting film submissions. The early deadline is August 28, 2009. The late deadline is September 21, 2009. (Those who apply early save some bucks.)
We welcome all films and videos less than 20 minutes total running time (including titles and end credits).
To enter, the filmmaker must have breathed in the good air of Orange County, NC, USA sometime in their life.
Facebookers: do a search for "Carrboro Film Festival" and join the group. Over 100 (101 to be exact) of your closest friends and family already belong.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A new small abstract
I had a small piece sitting around that I'd started using oil pastels on matboard. I also had a box of new acrylic paints including colors I'd never used before. I started playing around with the piece and the paints while waiting for something else to dry. I mindlessly doodled around the center blue/green oval. Viola, mindless worked.
Q. Oil pastels and acrylics on matboard. Maybe 7 x 12
Q. Oil pastels and acrylics on matboard. Maybe 7 x 12
Sunday, May 03, 2009
A wonderful exhibit in NYC
Mosqueteros: Later Work of Pablo Picasso at the Gogosian in Chelsea
March 26 - June 6, 2009
522 West 21st Street
This free show of more than a hundred of Picasso's later works (1962-72) is a revelation. After walking through the pieces -- small prints to very large canvases -- one can only marvel at the brilliance of his last years. The work comes in reserved earth tones and bright splashy colors but is always filled with whimsy. A character -- perhaps Picasso -- appears throughout with his little mustache and a glint in his eye. It is raunchy, it is fun, it is lecherous and it knocks you over. That's not to say there aren't some failures; he produced too much for everything to be top notch but the hits are home runs.
Walking through I kept grinning and laughing. I imagined this randy, mischievous old man, brush in hand having the time of his life as he threw paint on canvas after canvas saying "I'll show those bastards!" It is truly a must see.
Buste, 1970
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 32 inches (100 x 81 cm)
© 2009 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS ), New York
March 26 - June 6, 2009
522 West 21st Street
This free show of more than a hundred of Picasso's later works (1962-72) is a revelation. After walking through the pieces -- small prints to very large canvases -- one can only marvel at the brilliance of his last years. The work comes in reserved earth tones and bright splashy colors but is always filled with whimsy. A character -- perhaps Picasso -- appears throughout with his little mustache and a glint in his eye. It is raunchy, it is fun, it is lecherous and it knocks you over. That's not to say there aren't some failures; he produced too much for everything to be top notch but the hits are home runs.
Walking through I kept grinning and laughing. I imagined this randy, mischievous old man, brush in hand having the time of his life as he threw paint on canvas after canvas saying "I'll show those bastards!" It is truly a must see.
Buste, 1970
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 32 inches (100 x 81 cm)
© 2009 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS ), New York
One of those pieces...
...that comes together very quickly. I had thought about what I wanted to do and did a preliminary sketch. Still I did this in one evening. How many paintings do I have that I've spent hours and hours on without success? Too many, so it is nice to have something some together quickly. This is a continuation of my recent work on portraits.
Untitled as yet. Acrylics and ink on canvas. Perhaps 24 x 18.
Untitled as yet. Acrylics and ink on canvas. Perhaps 24 x 18.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Vote for your favorite 20th century artists
The TimesOnline of London is having a contest to select the best visual artists of the 20th Century. They started with a list of 300 -- painters, sculptors, photographers and graffiti and video artists. So far more than a million people have voted.
Sadly there are problems. First the site sucks and the list is problematic. It's hard to see the second half of the list (starting about M). I was unable to vote for Lee Krasner no matter how many times I clicked on her name and half the time her name disappears from the list entirely. I know I voted for Morris Louis but he disappears too. Artists left out? How about Andrew Wyeth (no Wyeth's actually), Joan Mitchell, Winslow Homer, Annie Liebovitz, Romare Bearden? And I'm sorry but Jeff Koons, who's on the list, makes me retch.
Still it's fun and the list includes many I'm not familiar with (including links to their work that sometimes - sigh - work). Go vote! (Just not for Koons.)
Joan Mitchell. Land, 1989 at the National Gallery of Art.
Sadly there are problems. First the site sucks and the list is problematic. It's hard to see the second half of the list (starting about M). I was unable to vote for Lee Krasner no matter how many times I clicked on her name and half the time her name disappears from the list entirely. I know I voted for Morris Louis but he disappears too. Artists left out? How about Andrew Wyeth (no Wyeth's actually), Joan Mitchell, Winslow Homer, Annie Liebovitz, Romare Bearden? And I'm sorry but Jeff Koons, who's on the list, makes me retch.
Still it's fun and the list includes many I'm not familiar with (including links to their work that sometimes - sigh - work). Go vote! (Just not for Koons.)
Joan Mitchell. Land, 1989 at the National Gallery of Art.
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