tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post1563741693335396944..comments2023-04-28T02:15:50.172-07:00Comments on Painting from life: ManetSharon Knettellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04024744293096824911noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-42434042986898832862013-08-05T19:48:20.555-07:002013-08-05T19:48:20.555-07:00I ordered it on Netflix- as soon as I ship Zulu ba...I ordered it on Netflix- as soon as I ship Zulu back- I'll get it.<br /><br />I am a slow artist myself- my models slow me up even more- Manet was always afraid they would leave him with an unfinished painting!Sharon Knettellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04024744293096824911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-52866739643853352112013-08-05T09:49:56.935-07:002013-08-05T09:49:56.935-07:00Yep!
Am reading a biography of Richard Diebenkorn ...Yep!<br />Am reading a biography of Richard Diebenkorn at the moment, someone who also liked taking it slowly. By the way did you rent Lars?ian warburtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484227453277793380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-55323614843933158002013-08-04T14:41:04.799-07:002013-08-04T14:41:04.799-07:00Sorry I wrote such an essay! I did
not see the art...Sorry I wrote such an essay! I did<br />not see the article but I sure did reply.<br /><br />I was as superficial as her art- a quick fix instagram's generation's facile approach to portraiture.<br /><br />I like slow art myself- the brooding uncertainty of it all.Sharon Knettellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04024744293096824911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-9042930316078731122013-08-04T14:07:23.899-07:002013-08-04T14:07:23.899-07:00No I meant the piece by Zofia Kostyrko-Edwards. I ...No I meant the piece by Zofia Kostyrko-Edwards. I found it interesting up to a point but not sustaining enough to make me want to spend too much time with. A bit too easy I thought. The idea that everything is so immediate (helped by technology) leaves me craving something slow and worked for. Particularly the sense of solving a problem, correcting, searching for a solution that seems on the face of it to be skipped over in new media. It was almost as if the outcome was already known before the work started.ian warburtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484227453277793380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-46455967537233377002013-08-04T05:53:47.457-07:002013-08-04T05:53:47.457-07:00Ian,
Are you asking why I wrote it or maybe you w...Ian,<br /><br />Are you asking why I wrote it or maybe you were unaware that I did write it?<br /><br />The genesis of the article began when I saw another article talking about just how dreadful the George Bush portrait was. I made a comment that I agreed as I have some insight into how contemporary portraiture is done. The publisher asked me to write an article.<br /><br />I have done some and quit because it was in no way art but photocopying. There are for all intents and purposes botox portraits traced from photoshopped prints.<br /><br />An example- disgusted with the business, I posted my method- "How to get Rich in Portraiture". <br />A: photograph subject.<br />B: Blow up print to exact size of painting and trace and transfer to drawing to canvas.<br />C:Place transparent plastic film of some kind on print and mix paint to match skin-tones on film.<br />D:Get paid.<br /><br />One women I know who was a dedicated mediocrity pounced and now is a celebrated 'portraitist' with a bevy of lucrative politician paintings under her belt.<br /><br />At a portrait convention, I met another 'celebrated portrait artist' told me he cut and pasted and traced as above. I said- doesn't that take the fun out of it- He said he did not care- all he wanted was the money.<br /><br />At another portrait convention I walked in with another painter who could paint from life, he laughed at all the live portrait demonstrations going life and said what a joke it was as no one does that today.Sharon Knettellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04024744293096824911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-34044619613363674402013-08-04T04:46:07.630-07:002013-08-04T04:46:07.630-07:00So what did you think to the piece on contemporary...So what did you think to the piece on contemporary portraits in Cultural Weekly?ian warburtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484227453277793380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-27214040303941052832013-07-29T01:26:55.030-07:002013-07-29T01:26:55.030-07:00The vernisage was quite extraordinary. Just after ...The vernisage was quite extraordinary. Just after the speeches a tremendous storm arrived accompanied by lightening , torrential rain and hail which whitened the ground in temperatures of 36 degrees. The top floor of La Tour, Montsales was shedding water ( 150 litres) and it was pouring down the stairs, ninety people were crammed into the Salle de La Marie and drank it dry. We just needed arks, doves, and or tablets of stone.ian warburtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484227453277793380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-24493330262257644352013-07-27T02:18:48.561-07:002013-07-27T02:18:48.561-07:00Sharon, I just received your comment and as the op...Sharon, I just received your comment and as the opening of my show is tonight, it gave me a fillip. Thank you. ian warburtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484227453277793380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-41881932961857332022013-07-25T07:48:30.792-07:002013-07-25T07:48:30.792-07:00Ian,
I took a gentler tone with this post as I ha...Ian,<br /><br />I took a gentler tone with this post as I have had some comments that I am a bit cranky- actually that is not far from the truth- oh well.<br /><br />Actually I am getting tired and bored with this new fascination with all things academic and tightly rendered. So did Manet. Look at his work and see just how expressive his portraits are- in FACT, JUST LIKE YOURS!!!!<br /><br />I have posted Jacob Collins because he at least is trying to bring a semblance of craftsmanship and beauty to contemporary art- an uphill task if there was ever one. I much prefer Manet's reality.<br /><br /><br /><br />Sharon Knettellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04024744293096824911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041402774788684644.post-83569417162312763822013-07-25T01:42:42.504-07:002013-07-25T01:42:42.504-07:00Thankyou for that Sharon. I'll look again. I h...Thankyou for that Sharon. I'll look again. I had a session with someone I trust yesterday who told me that my self portraits were confusing and unreadable and not at all like me so I'm feeling like throwing in the towel.ian warburtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484227453277793380noreply@blogger.com