seminar in painting

thesis proposal

these are the images that i have started with and plan to contine on with... below is my phisical proposal for work and gallery space




for my thesis work i will be doing a painting pertaining to my subject matter of descripitve surreal landscapes that describe the fabric of our world. this analgy is based on the multitude of things present and running through out our minds, pictured in an intricute landscape. they are based on what is present in our culture and the idea that our industial world has taken control over every aspect of natural landscape, thought this i embed the philosphy of colors that arouse different emotions as they pertain to different people and their outlooks on life.

my painting object will be a painting based on preceeding paintings. i have not exaclty found what it is i will be doing for size limitations but i do know that i will either be presenting. i have considered one large 5x3 painting or a conglomerate of smaller ones ranging from 2x3 and smaller. the large one will be a depiction of many of my smaller paintings placed into one balanced and showing the multitude of our imagionation. the smaller ones will be small intamate nariations ranging from peacful to powerful to fustratingly agressive works.

based on these ideas i will be looking for a wall that will allow me to control it because of its powerful colors. so for this it would be nice to have up to 8 feet of wall space to allow it to be void of distractions. it would also help me if it could be viewed from afar along with the odvious colose. with this said it would be nice to be allowed to have a wall in blue gallerey #1, its a large enough room and has the ample wall space to hold my paintings without distractions, but this is isnt a major compication, but would be apprecaited.

my crit with group 1A & victor

today I underwent a critique with my group of 1A. it was somewhat unexciting and a little uninformative. the only reasonable comment i got out of it was from the t a, Victor, he said a couple things that let me think a little more about some issues ive been having. one of them pertains to scale of my works; the statement was questioning why so large, it could be more significant if the size was more in relation to us, over a massive scale and in-your-face. it was odd that there were no questions it was just more of a stare and silence type of thing. another thing that victor covered was asking for a more cropped in view, getting down to the nitty gritty of the piece and not letting it be so elegantly flowing and contextual. as for what i got from him during the entire critique of the class i was on the right path. the use of ambiguity, the manner of handling the paint, and the decisive yet withdrawn ideas behind a painting, and for this i feel that he truly understanding and also questioning what was happening within a painting. as for everyone else i feel that if i didn't stand there and give an explanation it would have remained a silent stare, which is good and bad because i felt that there was a sense of marvel. it also let me understand that there isn't much to say, i find that the work really takes on its own perception and everyone gets there own understand of what is happening, which is also something i was looking for; as a work of art i want to create something beautiful while challenging the viewer to find their own experience. i would never want to stand by a work and explain it, i want the work to have an intimate conversation within the viewer, and by having silence it shows there is marvel, volumes of misunderstand, and detailed quantities of different experiences. silence also shows that there is an attentiveness to engage into a work while disregarding a finite understand. sometimes silence can be better; and the questions that had been engaged were mediocre subjective responses to fill the ten minutes that were handed to each student...

First Year MFA Show

today's mfa show was a lot of work that ranged materials and qualties. I enjoied the ideas displaied and even more concept and excution. It was over all very interisting but a little packed. Each artist had a different amount of work and a varied amout of space and section. which i thought was a little rediclious. there were some that took up a ton of space and then a view of a peice that was blocked by a enterence or other another peice. i didnt really understand why it was so juxtaposed until we heard it was not curiated. i felt like the idea of the first wall in the center gallery area was a little strange, the way it cut the room in half like that it gave a strange view of some art and cut other things off. its L shape was poorly put together. i still find painting most lauring for its skill and intellectual idea of art. but all of the work did a good job presenting ideas throught medium and works themselves. it seemed like there wasnt many of the artists at the opening itself, and i really didnt understand that. all in all it was a decent expereince other peices that i really enjoyed were the video project that was set up, i thought it was hullarious but the music did overwhelm the gallery in a good way becuase it wasnt outrageiously loud or rediclious. another peice was the wooden blocks with holes. it was a very modest peice that was about nature, shadows, and our effect on nature. it was a very interesting peice. i liked all the photos, but there might have been a scuplture or painting i didnt really care for, i wasnt sure about the massive canvases that were in the first room. it almsot seemed to much of an add for paint supplies or store. it created interest but wasnt outspoken with anything crazy particular.

Eileen Behke, What would you do for love?

anyway I was most interested in Eileen Behke, What will you do for Love, for it's color and style, and of course because I am working with paints. Like I talked about in my thesis proposal, they went into detail of building up colors and balancig them to form faces and weights in light and depths in shadows. I was taken by the use of specific colors and exaggerated enhancements. It was very bright and lively that it popped off the canvas. One of the most interisting elements came from the woman in red. She stood out the most to the point that I wondered at her drapes and this intense landscape that tells a story in itself. The use and variation of their brush strokes was also elemental. It looked like they used a palad knife to juxtapose colors and define space. And the curvacious strokes that define the clothing and placement of weight and posture embelishes the strokes in this realistic painterly style. It had just the right amount of clarity mixed with an exaggerated style that leaves alot of room for interpretation.

with all these fantastic elements I find that It would almost be benificial to attempt a big long drawn out process. I liked how there were just 3 works, it wasn't overwhelming or forcing anything it was set in the back and it presented the artists Ideals of majestic painting. This massive and so refined work really was a great experience with paint and is definally something i want to get working on. it was enjoyable to see other painters with a couple paintings that were really just long drawn out processes and contained a bunch of thought and considerations. hopefully these finals with julie will kick me into a good habit and allow me to consider more paintings and intellectual aspects of art.

"the fair"

fair...

the quote- "so our success freaks some people out. We've played it the way we wanted. Thats why we are doing so well for our artists. We belive in them and we work like motherfuckers"

my responce - this is so fucking insperational i dont know what else to say... you have to hustle. you have people that depend on you, you have to strive for it and want it like nothing else.

the quote- "gladstone protests, with a laugh. "My taste in art comes out of conceptualism. I know that! Even when I like paintings, they're conceptual paintings. I like artists who have an individual vision, and I want each artist to be seen on his or her own."

my responce - i think this really just keeps being the major factor in everything that happends... concept, and individual mission. what if others keep saying the same thing with such passion over a work and the same ideas fire throught. its actually much deeper when your hearing 1 on 1 commentes. i feel like im obligated to not go out "trick or treating" this weekend, seriously. well maybe one night.

the quote - " lately the globalization of the art world has accelerated. and art fairs have been good for our business."

my responce - well i like the way that sounds, my favorite thing was being able to show the world something universal. Ya know, art that responds to human beings alike, not just a particual nitch. isnt that just incomprehendable.

the quote - " the worst collections are scrambled, disjointed, and fickle. The best have "a driving forice."

my responce- well umm... concepft. i had a even crit last week...not enough work... we talked for a while about ideas concept whats what and this is that. it was hectic with the 2 awesome profs but a bit nerve racking, really things are crazy i know the feeling shit just flys by... i thought this class was next week well what the fuck....anyway yeah we talked about concept and it was cool left me with ideas and some ideas to explore and ride out. time to do it isnt it. cant wait to have 3 classes next semeseter if shit works out

the quote - " you cant use money as an idex of quality. That is a fallacy. that will drive you crazy!"

my responce - haha isnt that how the world works, people just go for the expensive prices to look like they are someone or something, haha y do we sell art if its so personal. I have seen the chelsea scene and they busted out a price book, ba that shit is like payin for a yankee, its sooooo america so we love it. go yanks mmm yea! haha does beegan get angry when he reads this and never sees any capital letters until the 3 sentence's capital letter, haha and the fact that i didnt highlight the first quotation mark.... haha is that bad typography haha.

the quote - " ...its chaotic, bewildering. the amount of art in the world is a bit depressing. the worst of it looks like art, but its not. it is stuff cynically made for a certian kind of collector." and he goes on talking about how money dosnt influnce him and the rest says ahh yaaa... concept concept in a public venue

my responce - did we need 5 or 6? is that it...ok anyway. wow concept. anyway

grad schools

i havnt considered it yet, i was kinda waiting for that career servies thing to come around and was defintally gonna travel europe and south america before i even consider blowing all my money on anther round of artschool

Rutgers university MFA program, for its program, location, teachers, and teaching

Savannah School of art and design, for its location

Otis College of Art and Design (LA), its degree of personal vision

Rhode Island School of Art, ODV CUASE ITS THE FUCKING #1

Univeristy of CALI, for its awesome #7 ranked program and its location location

Columbia Unversity, for its ranking, location

also looked at georgian court college for a 2 year Masters in TEACHING DEGREE is the only one i really went to visit... isnt that sad

my exhibit of choice...

this week i went back to the james ensor show that i saw once before...

the show was just a multitude of work at the moma. the reason it suck with me is for its deveristy in drawing and painting. i found his works are so interesting in his work of figures and faces and their distortion into a frightingly obsucre view of people. i found that all of his works were very articulated and based on a specific demsions of work. this has really been haunting me as of late, being a multi media artist, cutting the fat and deciding where i want to go. His view concerning people is to depict the nature of them, i was heading in this direction but not any longer, the idea of social and figural abstraction depicting a specific view is played out into so much work now.

there were a few specific images like the drunkards that really just seemed to catch my eye. the drunkards was a scene that emphisized social aspects of his life, being a massive bar fight and house party. the depiction was funny and compellingly detailed. i enjoyed his sence of goya. another was a mass of people that were fighting and skulls and heads. his sence of death was kinda scary and odvious. my favorite as a whole was his abstraction and busy quality.