I participated in the Paint the Town event in Rockland, for the Farnsworth Museum today.
This year I actually got a picture of my painting (I did not do that last year, and now, sadly, have no record of those painting, since they went at the auction.)(I found them here.) My painting sold this year, too. Here it is:
with, like, actual music, and everything. (see here)
[audio:http://keithperkinsart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/inthedarkwithyou.mp3]
That’s the name of a Marc Chagall painting from 1913, which I got a print of today, by happy happenstance–they were throwing it away at my wife’s work.
It’s done in primary colors, and browns, and white, and is typical of this period of Chagall’s. The view through the window, and the Eiffel tower in the background are symbols for freedom or rising. I’m loving it, and it’s going in my new studio. (Yes, I’m finally moving out of the attic.)
This is from the Guggenheim website:
After Marc Chagall moved to Paris from Russia in 1910, his paintings quickly came to reflect the latest avant-garde styles. In Paris Through the Window, Chagall’s debt to the Orphic Cubism [more] of his colleague Robert Delaunay is clear in the semitransparent overlapping planes of vivid color in the sky above the city. The Eiffel Tower, which appears in the cityscape, was also a frequent subject in Delaunay’s work. For both artists it served as a metaphor for Paris and perhaps modernity itself. Chagall’s parachutist might also refer to contemporary experience, since the first successful jump occurred in 1912. Other motifs suggest the artist’s native Vitebsk. This painting is an enlarged version of a window view in a self-portrait painted one year earlier, in which the artist contrasted his birthplace with Paris. The Janus figure in Paris Through the Window has been read as the artist looking at once westward to his new home in France and eastward to Russia. Chagall, however, refused literal interpretations of his paintings, and it is perhaps best to think of them as lyrical evocations, similar to the allusive plastic poetry of the artist’s friends Blaise Cendrars (who named this canvas) and Guillaume Apollinaire.
ArtyFactory has a page on the evolution of a lithograph of a bull done by Picasso in1945.
From a full fledged “realistic” drawing to the twelve line essence of the animal in the final print.
There’s more interesting stuff on the site also, if you can get past the wretched design.
I like this from Robert Genn:
The way I look at it, the idea of renaissance has eight great principles that just might be worth thinking about:
Curiosity as a way of thinking
Suspicion of authority and conventional wisdom
Respect for intelligently filtered history
Aspiration to higher levels of achievement
Vision for renewed potential in all things
Tendency to invent private systems
Reinvention and perfection of former skills
Accepting the challenge of the difficult
On the occasion of Obama asking all of us to help out poor Hillary Clinton pay off her campaign debts.
The more I hear from Obama, the more I think “politics as usual”.
People are in the dark, they don’t know what to do
Had a little lantern oh but it got blown out too
I’m reachin out my hands. I know you are too
Cuz I just want to be in the dark with you
Every day every night all over my whole life through
Just let me be in the dark with you
Every day every night all over my whole life through
Every year what you hear goes from worse to worse
Some say the whole world suffers beneath a curse
I know less all the time. Kiss me ‘fore I prove that’s true
Just let me be in the dark with you
Every day every night all over my whole life through
I just want to be in the dark with you
Every day every night all over my whole life through
Ah the people are in the dark, they don’t know what to do
Had a little lantern oh but it got blown out too
I’m reachin out my hands. I know you are too
Cuz I just want to be in the dark with you
Every day every night all over my whole life through
Just let me be in the dark with you
Every day every night all over my whole life through
Healthy, frugal eating | Wise Bread
This post on wisebread reminded me of Michael Pollan’s maxims (by quoting it, actually).
Eat food:
Start with vegetables. Get what’s cheap. If what’s cheap is locally grown and in season, so much the better. Eat more than one thing. Eat a lot.
Get some grains. Prefer whole grains, but generally buy whatever’s cheap. Get a few different things–rice, flour, cornmeal, oats. Here, too, get a lot, but as much as you can, get raw stuff and cook it yourself. Still, some amount of things prepared for you (like bread, pasta, and cereal) is okay.
Add some fruit. Fruit can expensive, but you don’t need a lot for a healthy diet–one glass of orange juice and a small apple is enough for one day. If you can afford more–berries, raisons, melons, exotic tropical fruits–that’s even better.
Add some legumes. Beans, lentils, split peas–whatever you like is fine. You don’t need a lot, but these are reasonably cheap, so if you like them, get a lot.
That’s really all you need. If you’re rich, you can get some meat, fish, milk, cheese, yogurt, eggs, nuts, oil, sugar, etc.–but you don’t need any of those things. A diet with a variety of vegetables and grains plus a modest amount of fruit and legumes will give you everything you need. (Billions of people only wish they ate so well.)
As long as you eat a variety of things, it’s going to be hard to screw up too badly on a diet like that. If your only vegetable is potatoes and your only grain is white rice–well, you won’t be getting all the nutrition you should. Expand your vegetables to include a leafy one and another non-white one. Make sure at least half your grains are whole grains.
Nobody needs to starve, just remember what’s necessary.
I found this artist through Lines and Colors website.
So cool I downloaded a pic to use as my desktop for a bit.
Also has a website here.
High fructose corn syrup, and corn oil are really bad for you. Check out this article–Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup – HFCS on femhealth.com