Tag Archive: modernism

SACRED, SOCIAL AND SURREAL

No deeper meaning here—wider, maybe. That’s OK, good even. Not an art work, but an art play. I just assembled some random and as realistic as I can make them representations in one… Continue reading

ANOTHER TRICK ON THE WALL

“Sometimes a bombast is just a bombast.” —Anonymous Art is a product, but it is also a process. It, as either process or product, can also be therapeutic as either a salve or… Continue reading

ART AND ABSURDITY

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” —André Breton The first thing you see here is some odd individuals nestled in a rustic landscape. You will… Continue reading

USE THE MUSE

“…Art made its final flight, climbed higher and higher in an ever-decreasing tighter-turning spiral until… it disappeared up its own fundamental aperture… and came out the other side as Art Theory!” — from… Continue reading

VENUS VANITAS

“The truth is that in this house with its four walls of glass I feel like a prowling animal, always on the alert. I am always restless.” —Edith Farnsworth   The house in the… Continue reading

OMG NOT WTF

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus. — David Hockney Creativity. What is it? Doing something that no one else has done before?… Continue reading

NOT BEAUTY

And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.” Title card from the 1933 film King… Continue reading

THESE DAYS

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us… Continue reading

QUID PRO FAUX

FIRST OF ALL, this is another digital drawing. Yes, it’s because I am saving my art supplies until the local store reopens. But it’s still a regression as the paintings were, but not… Continue reading

HABITUS, HABITAT

“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” —Joni Mitchell, no date IT’S DIFFICULT coming up with an explanation for an image that feels like it says something—not just… Continue reading