Watteau

Jasper Johns

"...when you begin to work with the idea of suggesting, say, a particular psychological state of affairs, you have eliminated so much from the process of painting that you make an artificial statement, which is, I think, not desirable. I think one has to work with everything and accept the kind of statement which results as unavoidable, or as a helpless situtaion. I think that most art which begins to make a statement fails to make a statement because the methods used are too schematic or too artificial. I think that one wants from painting a sense of life."

Alex Katz Says (2)

"I think nature's just a vehicle for art."

Richard Serra

"What I decided is that what I'm doing in my work right now has nothing to do with specific intentions...If I define a work and sum it up within the boundry of a definition, given my intentions, that seems to be a limitation on me and an imposition on other people of how to think about the work. Finally, it has absolutely nothing to do with my activity or art. I think the significance of the work is in its effort, not its intentions. And that effort is a state of mind, an activity, an interaction with the world."

Bresson's Joan

To be shown March 13 on TCM, along with several other films about Joan of Arc.

The Recorded Past

http://therecordingsoflindasmith.yolasite.com/

Warm book

Miss Charlotte Vale

Assortment 2

Assortment

It Was Christmas Again

What time is it?

TV

With all the channels available these days, why isn't there even one channel dedicated to art?

A Discovery

Discovered an artist previously unknown to me the other day by the name of Richard Allen Morris. These seemingly randomly placed blobs of paint on a small canvas struck a chord.