Milton Resnick

Here is a collection in three parts of a documentary on the great painter Milton Resnick. This was recorded from educational channel 25 here in Columbus Ohio a number of years ago onto VHS, which will tell you a bit about the quality. But you can still see everything in a good quality video.

Enjoy.

Here's Part two.

And Part Three.

"11-08-2008 (For Brice)"

The newest in my Dedication Series. This time the painting, 10X18" is dedicated to Brice Marden. One of my favorite painters. An artist who really delves into color in his paintings. The color in this painting is reminiscent to me of Brice's set of paintings titled the Seasons along with a few of his late 70's paintings.



Views of the side and detailed images, just click on them and you'll see them in much more detail.

This will be included in my new show at the Worthington Municipal Building beginning in December. The opening ceremony will be on December 11th from 5-7PM.

Thanks for viewing.

Just wanted to share these

I just found these two photos of Joseph Marioni speaking with Peter Lodermeyer from http://www.personalstructures.org

They are a group who is dedicated to introducing and promoting the work of artists they admire and love. You can find out a lot more from their website. Thanks Peter for the photos.



You can see in the background a beautiful Red painting.

New Painting, new thoughts.

I do believe I have finished another painting today. The sun has gone down hours ago and the paint in in the middle of it's drying stage. I worked today with a wonderful color I haven't worked with in years, probably not since 2000 have I worked with this color...Quinacridone Violet. And seeing it as it dries makes me wanna work with it more. It just has such a sensuality of it's deep bluish red color. Not quite Purple but dark enough for other people to consider it purple. This is also the first time I have worked with Guerra paint and pigments additive called Antifoam. I felt the need to get this after many paintings that ended up with pinholes in the surface color that while it doesn't really irritate me, it did take away from my views on the perfection I am struggling to achieve on the canvas. Or loose perfection, I might add...as I am always adding an element of improvisation to my work. As I am looking over the surface I now see the absence of pinholes...or no where near as many. I guess i'll have to wait till the paint in fully dry to find out for sure.

From looking at past entries to the blog, you can tell it has been a little while since I last finished a painting. In that time I have been accumulating a number of canvases that are sitting along the walls, just waiting to have their surfaces in the same state that this new one is in. And seeing this one and how well it has turned out...so far. Makes me long for the next birth of painting that I can accomplish. I don't like calling my paintings finished. Because it is not the end for them, but their beginning. As they are being fitted for their big moment in the stark light of the galleries that they are to eventually visit.

Thanks for reading. And thanks going out to Art Guerra who helped to create this wonderful Antifoam for acrylic paints. If you are an artist who finds that their drying paints do get pinholes in them. Try this product. You will be happy.

You can find out more about this company through their site and in NYC @ http://guerrapaint.com/index.html

Rothko at the Tate

Planning on making my first trip to England in the new year to see this amazing show and to hang with friends and to make some new friends.

College Loses Painting Worth Millions

A Tremendous Loss,' Professor Says

Wellesley College has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that was likely worth millions of dollars, officials admitted Wednesday."Woman and Child" had been in the collection of the college's Davis Museum and Cultural Center since 1954.After its return last year from an exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the college had stored the painting in a crate “while a museum construction project was completed,” said Wellesley President H. Kim Bottomly.

Months later, it was nowhere to be found. The museum “has not determined what happened to the painting or its current whereabouts,” said Bottomly. The museum didn't realize the 21-inch-by-25-inch painting was gone until last November. Officials don’t know whether the painting was stolen or might have been mistakenly thrown out when packing crates were discarded.A Wellesley museum official "asked me, 'Do you have our Leger, by chance?' " Oklahoma City Museum of Art registrar Matthew C. Leininger said. "I said, 'No, why are you asking?' That's when she said they couldn't find it. I said, 'Oh, boy.'"“It's a tremendous loss for the college, “ said Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, associate professor of art at Wellesley.Police were told and the museum's insurer, Travelers Insurance, has paid a claim though neither the company nor the college would say how much. Last year, Leger's paintings sold for an average of $2.8 million.“The loss of this valuable and irreplaceable painting has saddened the entire community, and we still hope it will be found,” said Bottomly.Travelers is offering a $100,000 reward for the painting.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/17317760/detail.html
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Me personally. I think this is hilarious, I guess the saying is true...a fool and his money(art in this instance) are quickly parted. But in this instance it's a whole University that played the fool this time.

A Human Level of Painting.

As a result of my difficulty of looking at large format paintings. Attempting to view the highest extremities of these large canvases, makes it hard for me to fully enjoy taking in these wonderful works in color and form.

I recently went to the National Gallery in Washington DC, where I finally got to see a decent amount of Abstract Expressionist paintings. My first Motherwell, my first set from Barnett Newman. But in my viewing of the Rothko paintings, seeing just how high on the wall they had been hung. Made me realize why Mark asked people to hang his paintings low on the walls. Supposedly at a more human level, as these were definitely not hung at that level. I am 5'9" tall and don't like looking at a huge painting that is hung on a wall at a point where the middle of the piece is right about eye level.

To me this is very wrong in practice, as it should not make your eyes strain to try viewing the top of the canvas. It makes it easier to view the bottom of the painting, but to myself and to many many more who visit these places everyday, we would like to be able to REALLY view the top of the canvas at a reasonable height, so as to get a truly good view of the rest of the canvas. Which as most painters paint, the top is usually the beginning of the painting, and gives one many ideas of how the canvas was brought into a painting. This high level of paintings on a wall simply takes away from the viewing of the painting and makes the painting...made by a human, act more as if an alter to worship at as opposed to what it truly is. A Painting made by a painter so that other humans might be able to receive the same feelings the artist is trying to convey.

J.C.