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This is a magnificent painting and truly the work of a master. Certainly one of the world's great artworks, I count myself amongst those who believe it to be the greatest. No doubt it resides in the ..goto |
| No apologies necessary, j.p. It's all part of the dialogue, but I think my point was made. We all have a different take on this thing we call art and that makes life interesting.For instance, Hanjo's ..goto | |
| I know you've been concentrating more and more on your three dimensional works of late and even your earlier paintings are kind of like studies for sculpture. When I look at either your paintings or s ..goto | |
| A good buddy of mine is/was a major enthusiast of the the thoroughbred horse. His enthusiasm, so fo genuine and passionate caused me a mere purveyor in he graphic arts to employ my skills and help ..goto | |
| I idealized it. I'm a parquet freak. ..goto | |
| A good buddy of mine is/was a major enthusiast of the the thoroughbred horse. His enthusiasm, so fully genuinely passionate caused me a mere purveyor in the graphic arts to employ my skills and hel ..goto | |
| I really like your paintings. They have a kind of gravitas. Where do get your ideas from? There seems to be some kind of theme yet I can't put my finger on it. Do you work from life or are these imaga ..goto | |
| Me like it. Stuff is really three dimensional. You can look at it from all angles and I think its probably interesting. The metal wire and jute stretched over it probably slows you down. That's why I' ..goto | |
| Thanks for the comments J.P. When I get a chance I'll post some of my earlier, more abstract stuff. The funny thing is beneath the surface of them there's all this very resolved imagery that drove me ..goto | |
| Wow! My work really seems to open some raw nerve in you. I let those earlier remarks about "figurative baggage", tricks, talent etc. go before because I preferred to think you weren't trying to goad m ..goto | |
| This one here really looks impressive. I wish I could see it larger. This damn computor of mine won't let me click it up. Beautiful colour, form and depth its got that very early and very late Guston ..goto | |
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I attempt to activate the whole canvas and give equal weight to what you might refer to as the positve and negative areas. The semi circles, etc are not a decorative contrivance. I actually see t ..goto |
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| I like the feeling in all three of your photos. Do you stage manage the settings (I'm asssuming you do) or are they actual moments you capture? ..goto | |
| You make some valid points and good suggestions that I will follow up on and I thank you for that. The circular forms don't come from Bacon. Actually I took Cezanne's advice of the cube, cylinder, con ..goto | |
| Gentlemen, sorry for the delay in my response, I've been somewhat under the weather. Delaney, I appreciate your attempts to rattle my cage and bring out the best in my work. A more direct and urgently ..goto | |
| Hey Delaney, you've got this strangely, lovely, constructive thing going on in your paintings. You're a painter and sculptor. That's a rare thing and you're damn good. I'd like to see the real work. S ..goto | |
| Really joyful work. You must be a really happy guy or an alcaholic. I like all your images. ..goto | |
| I never could read Joyce. I tried but was defeated. Your work has inspired me to go back and give it another go. You are obviously a very literary man and your work is very fragile and delicate. I th ..goto | |
| Actually JP, if there's any tension in my work at all and I hope there is, it comes from that very conflict of resolving the figaritive with the abstract. I think all art, at least good art is an abst ..goto | |
| I Like this painting. Its got a strong Spanish feeling with the suggestion of the bullring and all the lovely red (blood). Picasso was a bull. He was always being phogrographed half naked with his gia ..goto | |
| This is truly a stupendous work. ..goto | |
| I'm always interested in how figurative artists use the camera as a tool. I think you make extremely creative use of it. From what I can see here your work is not only skillfully executed but very gra ..goto | |
| Not a clue. My earlier comment was in jest. You may have noticed that I have slightly warped sense of humour. Actually at the time, I was just experimenting to see how this comment box works. ..goto | |
| Hanjo all your points are well taken, sorry for my slight confusion and I definitely don't want to turn this into a book so I think we should end this one here. Thanks for a fruitful discussion. ..goto | |
| I like your work Antonio. From what I can see of it here and I can't really see much of the surface quality. It doesn't look like your run of the mill photo realist stuff although obviously you work f ..goto | |
| I don't know who this john-paul is but any more disparaging remarks about my dear old pa of blessed memory (had to resort to tickling opponents to win) and I'm coming over to sunny Italy to knock his ..goto | |
| Interesting? ..goto | |
| Really impressive. ..goto | |
| You have an inventory of forms you use. You can pull them out of your hat and produce mural sized walls of the stuff. The fact that they'll be whitewashed the next day doesn't bother you because you h ..goto | |
| There's a time lapse between what you see and what you perceive, just as there's a time lapse between the right and left eyes as they adjust. These slight physiological disturbances are a fact. That's ..goto | |
| Thanks for your comments Hilary. What you describe is basically how I feel most of the time. Maybe it's the booze. But in any case I'm glad you like it. ..goto | |
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J-P, your enthusiasm for this piece surprised me. As I told you I was convalescing and found it difficult to paint standing and I was looking for something I could do while seated. I had this box ..goto |
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| You're obviously a person of great intelligence and taste and I bid you welcome to the Art Process site. Seriously though, I do appreciate your kind comments. ..goto | |
| I think you're right to take the attitude you do and you put it well. If we only look to ourselves in the work of others we would never learn anything new. Obviously we all attach ourselves to differe ..goto | |
| Thanks Teresa. Man this site is really happenning. I can't keep up with all the new artists. I just checked out your portfolio and was truly knocked out. ..goto | |
| I love it. All the views. Great work. ..goto | |
| This one has a particularly special meaning for me. I love to iron. ..goto | |
| I like the paintings very much. Post some information about yourself. If you live in Toronto maybe we can get together and have a smoke. ..goto | |
| Maybe I told you before or maybe not that these struggling figure paintings arose from my father having been an amateur wrestler. He was also an inveterate junk collector. Amongst his crap I discovere ..goto | |
| That'd great Hanjo, I look forward to seeing them. ..goto | |
| I like all your work a lot. I've seen it on site before and have been meaning to comment. You're a very young fellow and the work is fresh and interesting. So take a word of advice from an old geezer. ..goto | |
| Well Hanjo, I think it's a very interesting work. Certainly your most recent work is much stronger and more masterful and you seem to be on the top of your game however I do like this one too, archec ..goto | |
| Milena, I really do like this stuff and not just because I'm a smoking enthusiast and suicidal person in general (although at my age and given my lifelong bad habits, I don't think about it much anymo ..goto | |
| Somewhere on these comment pages, I don't recall whose work it was Mr. Delaney talks about seeking that one great memorable image as a worthy cause unto itself (I'm paraphrasing). A friend of mine, th ..goto | |
| I was just reading this over and I must have "architecture" on my mind. Apologies, the phrase my friend John M. says is "The real Estate of The Mind".Which makes at least some sort of sense. ..goto | |
| This one just caught my eye. Very interesting and dynamic figuration. ..goto | |
| I've stopped and looked at this one many times. I don't know what it is about it that I find so intriguing. Some kind of great brooding and monumental menace. Maybe you can explain it. I find much of ..goto | |
| I just want to say that you're fantastic. I stop and look at everything you do and you do nothing twice, Truly creative wok graphically and artiscally. You don't seem hung up on any particular tradit ..goto | |
| I like your work very much. I think this one is amongst the best in your portfolio. I love the light and the ambiguity of the nude male figure seated in the wicker chair. A powerful composition and ve ..goto | |
| I like it. Sure its a little Freudian (Lucien that is) but in all honesty and of course this is only my opinion I prefer it to your more recent efforts which for me (although interesting) are a bit to ..goto | |
| Maria, the reason I asked about whether or not you had worked from a photo was not from some kind of snobbery about painting from life being superior to painting from photos. As one who paints from a ..goto | |
| Its a classic conflict. Cezanne, as we know from his early work yearned to do passionate and expressive work with grand themes however its only when he reconciled himself to simpler aims did he achiev ..goto | |
| I say "innocent" in the sense of trying to eliminate the mind from the seeing process. The mind has the experience of what a thing is like. It is possible to see just the abstract forms and shapes and ..goto | |
| Extremely fascinating work. I like the sculptures in your portfolio as well. ..goto | |
| I always stop to look at your paintings. I'd like to comment but I don't know what to say. I hate to just say I love your stuff but that about sums it up. There's something very human, both comical an ..goto | |
| I.ve been meaning to comment on Hanjo's latest series of paintings and I came across this beautiful conversation. So firstly about the paintings, they're all as handsome as ever. I probably wouldn't h ..goto | |
| I think these "Bird Cycle" paintings are quite an extraordinary series. Delicate yet strongly and masterfully painted they express the fragility of the birds' lives and ours as well. I'd be hard press ..goto | |
| Maria, I'm not exactly sure what you mean but if It's that I start with abstract form, that's true but I also finish with abstract form. That's the nature of painting even representational or figurati ..goto | |
| Maria I try to forget about the " thingness" of what I am painting and just try to get down the abstract forms of what I am seeing. In the beginning it's just the largest most interesting shapes and ..goto | |
| A very astute observation Mr. Delaney there is indeed a relationship between the two activities and It's something I've given considerable thought to. As in painting I would have loved to be totally ..goto | |
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Hey this is an artist to artist site so who let you in? I agree somewhat with your comment although it's not bombastic enough for my liking. You should know that actors don't cut it here. Isn't th ..goto |
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| Teresa, I just visited your studio log. I love your process. I know you want this work to be seen in conjunction with the other that's not yet complete and I don't want to jinx you but I love this ..goto | |
| Welcome aboard and thanks for the kind words. ..goto | |
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Oh yes I should mention that when I checked out your portfolio I found your work to be very interesting. ..goto |
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| Maria, there's no need for an apology, you should always call them the the way you see them. In any case I'm deeply gratified that you've changed your mind on this one and thank you for your kind word ..goto | |
| Albert this is a truly amusing picture. There's not enough humour in art, it's all so serious, so I thank you for this. You couldn't have done better than to parody Wyeth's famous work, the difference ..goto | |
| Toni Malaqi, my congratulations to you for creating interesting, lively art. I've looked at everything in your portfolio and it's all of interest. I don't know exactly what your up to. I could make re ..goto | |
| I love this big head. Slightly awkward, there's a fragility that's very appealing and a certain haunting quality almost like a death mask. ..goto | |
| Karen, I want to thank you for your comments, it's not the first time you've astounded me with your profound depth of thought and feeling both in your paintings and words. When I first started this se ..goto | |
| Agredece mucho, el es muy bueno de usted decir tan. Tambien mucho gracias a Google por sus herramientas de traduccion. ..goto | |
| So Karen, do me a favour and tell me what I said. I need a good laugh today. ..goto | |
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T makes more sense than most of the stuff I say in English. Thanks Karen! ..goto |
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| Well I've looked at her website and there are some interesting things however I'm not a great lover of Caravaggio or single source lighting arranged for effect in a darkened studio. Movie makers have ..goto | |
| Maria, something's happening. I don't know what it is but I like it. ..goto | |
| Terrific work. Your whole portfolio here is great. ..goto | |
| This is a lovely little painting that I've been looking at for a couple of years now. I've often wondered what is the attraction, is it the sitter herself, for some time I thought it was. Having met y ..goto | |
| Karen I like the new paintings very much. This new portrait is very good. the head and background interacting very nicely... the best "Raul" to date. Mind you his expression, I wouldn't exactly call ..goto | |
| Thanks for all your comments Anne. Which artists from the '30s are you referring to? I'm curious even one example would suffice. ..goto | |
| I do like the spatial aspect of Hopper's work and think I have, from time to time attained a bit of that feeling in my work. In answer to your original question, if it is there it was absolutely unco ..goto | |
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That's very funny, thanks for your comments. The exploded view of the box just happens to turn into a cruciform. I can assure you there was no personal or religious intent. More importantly it's ..goto |
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| Well you've caught me red handed. I've been working my way through the Encyclopedia of Art absorbing and stealing everything I see with the ambition of combining all those thousands and thousands of d ..goto | |
| This is a lovely painting. I can picture it in its true size and it just seems right. From the depths of grief or not, your mindset aside, it feels light and breezy and as though it was executed easil ..goto | |
| A very strong and beautiful painting, I don't understand Karen's words above but I agree totally. ..goto | |
| Well spoken JP however it's very nearly impossible for an individual artist to give an opinion on everything thing he/she sees. We always have an opinion but as so often happens, and you see this qui ..goto | |
| I agree fully with what you've said above Merlin in response to my comment and I especially agree with your last comment and I commend you for sticking your neck out and asking, audaciously for a revi ..goto | |
| We are surrounded and inundated with so much visual imagery, a never ending supply, of course we always have been, at least in nature... turn your head this way or that way and always a new painting ..goto | |
| We are surrounded and inundated with so much visual imagery, a never ending supply, of course we always have been, at least in nature... turn your head this way or that way and always a new painting ..goto | |
| We are surrounded and inundated with so much visual imagery, a never ending supply, of course we always have been, at least in nature... turn your head this way or that way and always a new painting ..goto | |
| It's good, just leave it alone. I hate to let people into my studio when I'm working on something because they invariably say what I've just said to you but I never listen anyway and just keep pluggin ..goto | |
| I've been meaning to ask you this for quite a while what's with this on the wall off the wall thing, as though coming off the wall were some kind of victory or advancement in your personal evolution?< ..goto | |
| There's something about both your "Smithy" paintings that I really enjoy, I meant to comment when I saw the "Big Blue Machine" and I really like this one. You're a terrific colourist as far as I'm con ..goto | |
| Thank you Toto for your comments unfortunately I understand no Italian whatsoever so I'm relying on JP's translation for veracity. And it's in his nature as peacemaker and ambassador of good will to ..goto | |
| I love this piece, a really beautiful and sensuous figurative study. ..goto | |
| Hanjo, narrative or not it's a good solid work and I certainly concur with your reasoning for not uploading any new work without the right to delete them. That's the same reason I will not allow The P ..goto | |
| Is that as in "well done!!!" or just "well!!!" the way Jack Benny used to say it? ..goto | |
| Karen, you got it in one. Without going into who the people are, they're gone from this world now, you're observations are pretty much right on the mark. You've conveyed it much better verbally than I ..goto | |
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This is a really great one and I say that as a long time Crudo admirer. So what's the deal Albert, did you get yourself a hotshot NY dealer as John-Paul seems to say... if so congrats! Tell me abo ..goto |
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| I love these latest paintings, Maria. They're filled with surprise, new form and freedom. Very strong work, they just seem right to me, in conception, painting and scale. You've made a major leap, ..goto | |
| Maria, hold on to that thought, I just have to pack a bag and I'm on my way to the airport. Seriously though, thanks for the nice comments and if you're being truthful about the "hot" thing then I'm v ..goto | |
| Thanks Abby, I appreciate your comments. ..goto | |
| You're welcome. The painting looks interesting but it's hard to see in this photo. From what I do see however it's either simply an illustrative work of a grown up Hanjo pondering his past, or if I wa ..goto | |
| Interesting work and from a fellow Torontonian. Wow! I'm impressed. ..goto | |
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To the staff at Art Process, Thanks for your prompt response, it reads very clearly now. Sincerely Yours, A Devoted Reader ..goto |
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| I always stop and look at any of your images I happen upon. They're simply beautiful... all of them very consistent, delicious and interesting. Maybe I commented before, I can't remember, in any case ..goto | |
| Dear Maria, if you keep making one breakthrough after another the whole building's going to collapse. Since that Madrid trip you've been on fire, was it the Rego show or just your El Greco experience ..goto | |
| Sorry I worded that poorly , I was trying to combine a couple of notions. One of them being that your work of late is changing and the other that deconstruction is necessary for reconstruction. For me ..goto | |
| My lesson from Cezanne is different than the way you perceive it but then everyone has there own take. The so called cubists are all very different maybe Leger comes the closest to using that Cezanne ..goto | |
| Thanks for a very good conversation. Having reread your contribution to the Forum I think It's a beautiful piece of writing, I didn't want to respond there because I'd like to see it remain on the hom ..goto | |
| I'll take that as a yes. There was no value judgement in my question, where art is involved there's always imagination at work. Take the work of one of our Art Process colleagues Jeroen Witvliet, if y ..goto | |
| Beautifully said and I certainly agree with all of it just allow me to add a few thoughts on the topic because drawing for me is everything. In my work I really can't differentiate between painting an ..goto | |
| Maestro, although I met you but for a brief moment, I mourn the passing of a fellow artist, especially one so filled with joy and life as yourself. ..goto | |
| Thanks Frederico, I'll take that as a compliment and it's very appreciated. ..goto | |
| Keeping the whole lot open, paintings that are never finished and the impossibility of doing so. Classical forms and an imbibing of art history yet a striving toward new form. How can one produce in a ..goto | |
| Truly a beautiful portrait, even if it is of Hanjo. When are you going to undertake a portrait of me? My only request is it be a full figure, actual size portrait in the nude. Besides for your usual m ..goto | |
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Hi Patrick and welcome to ArtProcess. This a beautiful painting, very loose and open like most of the work in your portfolio. Keeping things open and moving that's the real trick, a painting can ..goto |
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| Thanks Maria, you hit the nail right on the head about the whole perspective thing, I just don't seem able to free myself of my classical training. It's very frustrating, try as I may, I always seem t ..goto | |
| Thanks very much for the compliment and comments Pat. These paintings of the struggling figures were a real "struggle" for me as I had to go against all my instincts, habits and sensibilities to find ..goto | |
| "Managed to persuade me to come to Sicily." Hey I'm a big boy, nobody can force me to do anything I don't want to anymore. The thing is Patrick, if you stick around this site a little bit you may find ..goto | |
| Couldn't agree more j-p and the many comments attest to the spirit of freshness that Patrick's work and presence has already contributed. I don't want to stir things up but it has occurred to me that ..goto | |
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j-p???... alive..... he's a-l-i-i-i-v-e, A-A-A-L-I -V- E ! ! ! I'd heard that you perished under a huge load of dirty dishes, apparently just a nasty rumour... this is wonderful news. Ac ..goto |
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Maria wrote this response to J.P.'s comment but placed it under the wrong image, I've taken the liberty of putting it where it belongs.) MARIA'S COMMENT » Highly figurative landscap ..goto |
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| JP, my dear Italian dishwashing buddy, I brought up the topic of cubism a little while ago and gave you all my own idiosyncratic interpretation. I was hoping to hear from yourself and others about wha ..goto | |
| A very lovely drawing Anne... a work of art. The deeper meaning is within us all and will always reveal itself. Pursue your formal concerns, that's what drives us on. The feeling, the passion, call it ..goto | |
| I've always loved your work Kearney, I just haven't had much to say about it. To me, your works are so American I can practically taste 'em and they're very tasty. The work is always executed extreme ..goto | |
| Thanks Arnold and just in the nick of time... cough. ..goto | |
| Thanks for your interest in my work and dilemma Arnold, I'm in fairly total agreement with what you've said, except for your grinding of the teeth and hatred for the lamp (very subjective, I love the ..goto | |
| Fotini, I really want to thank you for that, it's truly a memorable little video that says much about you and your personal art and life journey. The bonus for me was actually hearing you speak, your ..goto | |
| Arnold, seeing as this site operates basically for us lately, this pretty much is where I would like to go with my art. I love it, it reminds me of when I could do no wrong, it was an adventure and fu ..goto | |
| I really like these things, I'd just like to know a bit more about your process. Could you tell me approximately how many times you have to run to the toilet during their execution? Here's a great tim ..goto | |
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Wow, simply throw the door open, I just never thought of it, you're definitely a man of vision. And yes the children of geniuses are unfortunately, inevitably damaged. My main concern right now is ..goto |
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| This is in answer to your call for help from the guys (I just checked and I believe I'm still one) in your Studio Log entry. As we all know there's no facility yet to respond directly so I'm doing it ..goto | |
| Sorry, I forgot to mention that I like these beer box paintings very much, my opinion offered above was only in response to what I perceived as a discontent by the artist with what he sees as habit, ..goto | |
| Yeah, I noticed the similarity when I posted that studio log image of my failed canvas. Colour's not a major concern of mine, I'm not enough of a sensualist to really consider myself to be a colouris ..goto | |
| The de Kooning comment was just a bit of tit for tat, I've got a long memory and comments to me like "Why don't you just drop your figurative baggage?", etc, remain. You know by now that I view myself ..goto | |
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welcomw aboard. very good work. ..goto |
| Ciao Michela, mi ha colpito il cuore sul tuo studio log e visitando il tuo profilo sono rimasta piacevolmente sorpresa. I miei complimenti per il tuo lavoro originale. Ci vediamo a Trapani. ..goto | |
| Dear Ilona, I think your work is most original. Unlike other "out of the ordinary" art products, yours is based on a very concrete idea executed with mastery. I realy hope to have the chance to meet y ..goto | |
| Hi Ilona, thanks for your kind comment. I'll look these artists up because I'm not familiar with their work. ..goto | |
| Oh yes, Marlene Dumas is defenetly an artist I like. I just run into this great site http://www.postmedia.net/dumas/dumas.htm ..goto | |
| Dear Lina, very few paintings with nature subjects have ever caught my eye. These fields of yours though, are an irresistable vortex of colour, sent and sound. I would like to dive in their depths. ..goto | |
| I look at this and then my latest paintings and I get confused. Am I going the wrong way? ..goto | |
| I am going through a little crisis here and your response is most valuable to me. Dear Hillel, it is not from a live model. It is from a photo I shot of a friend who poses for me. I can see what you ..goto | |
| Thank you Hanjo. You have helped me choose side in a conflict in my mind. ..goto | |
| Dear Hillel, I am sure it was a compliment, as I never doubted that you do not consider painting from photos inferior. Neither do I. For the history, I started using photos when I did my “Furies or Th ..goto | |
| Dear friends, do you really believe there is such a thing as an innocent eye? I am currious. ..goto | |
| Oh, yes. I love the hands. This image is like one of a sculptor who has just finished modeling his clay, which we cannot see because it stands somewhere on the right, outside the painting. Are you bec ..goto | |
| Honored. Well I think the gaze in Woyzeck I is the most powerful you have shown us here. Even more powerful than the emotion series. And OK, message recieved. I wish I were able to send such clear me ..goto | |
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| Hanjo, in deed, there is no need to apologise. Your way of eliminating narrative interferences of the background in order to enhance the power of bold colour and excellent drawing, your precedent comm ..goto | |
| Dear Karen, your "Seated man in red background" may be a little more masterful, but this is much more full of meaning, at least in my opinion. ..goto | |
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Karen and Hanjo, I would be interested to know what each of you thinks of Paula Rego's work. Especially her Dancing Ostriches series http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/paula_rego.htm |
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| I like this one. Now god knows why it makes me feel like taking a bite... ..goto | |
| This is one of the paintings that proove the theory that intention is not all that counts when painting is concerned. It seems to have disregarded my initial idea and to have acquired a life of its ow ..goto | |
| The heads are great. Solid like big pebbles on a beach. I think one could have even dared a composition without the arms. ..goto | |
| This is my favourite amongst your works. It has its own light; it does not depend on an external light source that bounds it up with a setting. ..goto | |
| Dear Francien, I run into your page in the Saatchi Gallery site and then I visited you site. I was impressed by your work. Why don't you show us some more of it here? I hope to meet you at Trapani. ..goto | |
| Dear Hillel, I have been looking at your studio log when it occured to me: you are the only artist I know that begins with short of abstract forms and then transforms them into figurative and not vice ..goto | |
| I am aware of the terms of representation and of the fact that everything is an abstraction at the bottom line. What I meant was that in the course seeing (nature) one perceives first what one has bee ..goto | |
| I am not sure I would have seen a car here without your explanation, but you sure brought tears in my eyes with the concept behind it. ..goto | |
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Dear Hilary, I just visited your site and stayed immersed there for quite a while watching your paintings and reading what you had to say.I wanted to tell you that what, in my opinion, makes one a ..goto |
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Welcome aboard Johannes. I visited your web site and found a lot of interesting work. I would be interested to know how you work with paraffin. ..goto |
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Hello Toni, I like your work very much. It is full of my kind of symbolism. This one makes me think of a crussifixion.God knows why. ..goto |
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The finished Trapani paintings are the product of very solid and thorough work. I think you have utterly mastered your pictorial elements here. This is not a compliment. It is though, an apo ..goto |
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| Hmm... a death mask. That is a good one. I hadn't thought of it this way before, but it seems to describe well what I often try to do. I take an expression and fix it there still, so that you can look ..goto | |
| Well, I liked it too. I was a student then. This was from a live model at a time when most students were directed to adopt a painterly maner and study how the inside and the outside are made of the sa ..goto | |
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Dear Hanjo, My saying that I like No II’s colour best meant exactly what I said. I like it more because it is my cup of tea. It is like saying that I like lemon sorbet more than strawberry, which ..goto |
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| My dear you were born to do acquarel. Love it. ..goto | |
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Hello Marta, I am an engraving lover and your work gives me another reason to be so. Actually I had great difficulty chosing one image to place my comment under. So I drew one by chance. I used to ..goto |
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| Benvenuto abordo. Interessante, sembra in fiamme. Una sirena nel inferno. ..goto | |
| Interesting choise Tom. Plus a kick in Fontana's balls. J.P I am wandering what that person of yours meant exactly about Chagall. I will go looking to find out. Manet's case could be obvious in Maya ..goto | |
| You cannot possibly mean that you know for a fact that this was thrown away! It is BEAUTYFUL! ..goto | |
| Actually, it went the other way around for me. It was the first paintings I ever sold that I couldn't part with. ..goto | |
| You know, I read your comment here quite some time ago. Then it remained hidden someplace in my mind and came back to me while I was thinking of making a painting. I had these images of this face and ..goto | |
| Hi, Karen. I see you just answered Hillel so you must be on line. Sorry to be using this space but I don't have your personal e-mail. Are you coming to Trapani? And when will you be there? ..goto | |
| Yes, it does! And yes, I will. Only for a few days though... How I would like to have two weeks as well... ..goto | |
| I like your work. It is fresh and funny and serious and grave at the same time. ..goto | |
| Questa e' un' opera che vorrei tanto avere. E', come dire, consolante! ..goto | |
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Δεν το είχα προσέξει α� τό! Μο� αρέσει πολύ. Ι hadn't noticed this one. I like it a lot. ..goto |
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| I have been looking at her paintings for two entire days. I would like to take part in this conversation too. Hillel and Hanjo, do take a look. http://www.mayakul.com/paintings.htm ..goto | |
| Thank you. You have no idea how much this means to me... Well, I think my work has, among other things, been influenced a lot by the interaction with you people on this site. So I am really terrified ..goto | |
| YES! Time for change has come. I expect to see new, interesting elements in most of our works. ..goto | |
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Yes, wrongness is indeed the hook. I am very fond of this little painting myself and I enjoy resting my eyes upon it as it stands quietly against my ling room wall. Sculptural modeling. This ..goto |
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| Bore da Teresa. I came accross the the pot child and I took a stroll around your work again. I have never told you how much I admire your work. It has the magic property of containing our childhood fa ..goto | |
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Ok, I will tell you what I don't like about this painting. When I look at it I can't help but think of old, film advertising posters. And their function was purly narrative. Pure narration - ..goto |
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| The interaction between the “inside” and the “outside” is one of painting’s great issues. The way we “open” or “close” a figure makes all the difference. It changes our way of conceiving space. Either ..goto | |
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Dear Karen, The larger image you sent me is indeed quite different. The red of the body is warmer and more vivid and the white of the sofa, paper and book on the table as well. So, red and white p ..goto |
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| Sara' pure under constraction, ma e' bello vedere che sei tornato a lavorare. In bocca al lupo. ..goto | |
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| Well, it had nothing to do with pain or anything. Just the way your paintings are painted. This one and the next made me think of Kiefer because of (as far as I can make out of the image on the screen ..goto | |
| Woh, woh, wait a second here! I just checked this web address you gave J.P and what did I find? This guy wearing his piece of drape, (is it?) way too high for not showing anything underneath... Well, ..goto | |
| Well, not everything needs to be motivated by a deeper meaning. I tend to look for deeper meaning most of the time while painting and it is a counteraction. Sometimes you start without an intention fo ..goto | |
| Thanks JP. I keep my fingers crossed too. It is so damn hard with everything one has to do. I just wish everything would leave me alone so that I could just paint and go and see good painting and pain ..goto | |
| Hi there, this is great work here. I would have liked to see what the real surface of the paintings feels like. I am a David Hockney enthusiast. Are you too or is it just my impression? ..goto | |
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I am not convinced I can paint yet, but I know I can draw... Thank you for the encouraging my friends. Hanjo, your criticism in private may be offering its first fruit. I am working on it. ..goto |
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| Don't worrry J.P. No one is going to cheet and say all the interesting stuff behind everybody else's back (ha, ha). Private communication between artists is also natural, especially when big attacheme ..goto | |
| Your photographs are really interesting but your painting images are of such low definition that it is almost impossible to view them. Why don't you try to upload larger files? ..goto | |
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My dear Hillel, I have always been afraid of ruining things and I think this was one of the reasons why my paintings look so tight and only half way accomplished. A few days ago a friend recomend ..goto |
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| Thanks guys. Actually, I didn't mean it as a study. It was just a gesture of unselfish love towards my little old boy who scares me to death everytime he is not well. Pink is a fragile colour. ..goto | |
| Dear Anne, I just came back from Madrid where I went to see great painting. This one looks good on the screen but its surface is disapointing. After my pilgrimage to the Prado, I expect all my surface ..goto | |
| This I have always found interesting for no particular reason. Only today I read the title and now I can't help seeing a human egg. Is this any relevant to your intention or is it just me? ..goto | |
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It seems like you are getting ready to allow some narration into your work. Am I right? After having seen Paula Rego narration is not a demon for me any more. All the contrary. ..goto |
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| You are absolutely right, it is true that the story narrated by painting when there aren’t any precise symbols used, depends very much on the viewer. Stereotype interpretations cannot be avoided thoug ..goto | |
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Hello, Fotini, welcome aboard! I wright in English so that others can pop in the conversation too. I am so glad to find a new Greek person in ArtProcess, I didn't introduce to myself. Drawin ..goto |
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| My dear Hillel, Thank you so much for the encouraging! I am trying my best (or almost my best). The trip to Spain has been decisive for my work. And I tell you, I am deeply, profoundly in love with Go ..goto | |
| Well, I am a chiaroscuro type. I must admit that light and shade and form are all I care about. Colour comes second, even though I like playing with the diferent effect each colour gives as it is conf ..goto | |
| I just spoted this one. You are finally working again! Well done my friend, well done. ..goto | |
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I feel a little out of place making a comment here, as apparently you share an emotional experience I don't, but I would like to say this: There is nothing wrong with the kite. Absolutely no ..goto |
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| Hello, Marianne and welcome. Your work looks very interesting both as conception and execution. These works remind me of a show of Francesco Clemente that I once saw and had me stay in the gallery unt ..goto | |
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| Thanks, Fotini. The quality of the colours is what actually changed when I retuched it. And the surface. I have started working more on the charm of thicker material. ..goto | |
| This triptych brought to my mind an old discussion you, Hillel and I had, on the use of photographs in painting and how we all agreed in the end that one has to concentrate on painting itself. I go ba ..goto | |
| Well, in painting, pictorial elements such as composition, line, form and colour are precisely the ones that can enhance or undermine whatever emotion the depicted subject intends to provoke. So, I th ..goto | |
| Now that you mention Goya's black paintings, well, one cannot get all they have to say if one is unaware of Spain's history of the time. This is very true for many other great works too. I'd say his b ..goto | |
| Ciao Federico, I love these latest paintings. I think they are moving towards somewhere beyond mere minimalistic landscapes. I can see JP's point on Richter, but I would like to know what you think of ..goto | |
| Your scuptures are so good! I can hardly decide on which to comment on. ..goto | |
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I am not sure I understand the first sentence. Do you mean I am moving in different directions simultaneously and risk getting lost? You might get your essay my dear but maybe not just so soon. T ..goto |
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| You see that is what I was trying to say once on a comment I made your Head #6. As I understand it, what happened in the early 1900 was the fragmenting and rethinking of the object first and the way w ..goto | |
| You see that is what I was trying to say once on a comment I made your Head #6. As I understand it, what happened in the early 1900 was the fragmenting and rethinking of the object first and the way w ..goto | |
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Well, you may be right and I may be inventing things the way they suit me best. Sometimes we see what we want to see but it doesn’t matter really. Thanks for the analysis. That’s the way I s ..goto |
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| To some extent, I already do paint from my imagination given the fact that I use the model (live or not) as a guide to anatomy and then set it in my own space. For the time being I still need my figur ..goto | |
| Ah, drawing! This is by far my favourite subject. I always appreciate a chance to talk about it. Well, people who would ask you what it is that you paint at cocktail parties as well as comic strip art ..goto | |
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| Hey there, welcome. excellent sence of space, motion and light, all in one. ..goto | |
| I honestly think this is the best painting you have ever done so far. No kidding. I wish I could see the real thing. ..goto | |
| I distinctly recall telling you that traditional perspective is out of date. Haven’t I taught you anything? And take a brake with that egocentric attitude of yours. Try some mythological subject, or s ..goto | |
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Dear Patrick, thanks for your comment. And thanks for having me look at this work again. I am looking for some sort of golden section between this kind of anatomically correct depiction, and the e ..goto |
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Thanks Fotini, I am quite happy with this one too. It was one morning's work that helped me face the rest of the week. You know I used to work with a restrained palete of the basic colours, o ..goto |
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| Wooh, yes. You definitely left the old way of dealing with the model behind. These eyes are so much more expressive than the actress's elaborate facial expression. The difference is that here you, the ..goto | |
| Highly figurative landscapes are not necessarily made by Sunday painters, even though they are the favorite kind of the latter. But I think the reason why this expression even came up (funny thing the ..goto | |
| I wrote this under the wrong image. It is supposed to be an answer to J.P's comment. ..goto | |
| My dear friends, I think that we are facing a problem here: images such as Alejandro’s cannot be fully appreciated unless one sees the real thing. “What art should look like” is a non existing argume ..goto | |
| Es verdad que todos tenemos mas de uno cuadro en el studio al que no tenemos ningun aprecio. Yo tengo mas cuadros asi que cuadros que me satisfacen. Algunas veces consigo desesperada ma pienso que est ..goto | |
| Hello, Eugen. You are really something! You should talk to us more. Love your reds and the San Greal idea. ..goto | |
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| Ciao, hai dei pezzi forti qui. E’ buono il fatto che provi diversi stili. Tanti si accontentano con un tipo di pittura con il quale si sentono sicuri e non fanno mai nient’ altro. Oltre I lavori come ..goto | |
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| The exhibition is finished, I packed Karen's paintings today to send them back to their mama, and as this is my last week with no lessons on Wednesday, I finaly made time to see what has been going o ..goto | |
| What I admire about this work is that narrative and pure form are so well balanced. It is not simple to make these two elements work for one another and not one against the other. ..goto | |
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| Perche' caro Costantino? Secondo lei, e straordinario essere donna e brava a dipingere? Mi dica. ..goto | |
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You do have excellent control over the medium... oils right? I love the colors... especially the reds. I'm in love with the left side of this work. I love the overlapping reds. ..goto |
| Beautiful work or art here. I love the fact that I can see into it. The depth is amazing with only so few colors. Wonderful use of mixed media. The water color and oils together really make the pi ..goto | |
| I love the cellular look of your pieces. Beautifully executed. You do a really great job resisting the left side of the work (which adds great depth) and growing in the right side of the piece with ..goto | |
| I love this work. I love the red. It feels like the fires of a volcano... mesmerizing. I love the crack of light and the blue really stands out on that field of red like a chunk of ice suspended in ..goto | |
| Beautifully flowing shapes and lines. I love the blue with the red and the black. The peach color takes away some of the paintings spark in my opinion, by overall this piece really work I particula ..goto | |
| MMMM I love it. I love the glitter, I love how the blue pops out... you have definately hit on the right idea here, but composition seems a little unbalanced. Maybe I need to see it in person. ..goto | |
| I love the segmented quality of this painting that seems like stained glass. Wonderful use of shadow and light and lovely color choices. ..goto | |
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Wonderful. I love the idea of seeing the reflection of the environment that the piece hangs in... in that way the painting will always be changing. A living piece of art. Bravo a tiny side ..goto |
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| Right off the bat I notice the texture. I love the black vigorously applied... so full of energy... Beautiful. Not sure about the black on the bottom... perhaps a little mor of your orange and red t ..goto | |
| Visually stimulating. The piece seems lit up as if from behind. Wonderful mixture of shapes and symbols. I love your use of line. It seems so spirited and energetic. My eye travels nicely around ..goto | |
| I definitely agree... I would love to see a large work too. The energy would tower over the viewer. I personally have a hard time doing small canvas'. I feel confined and restrained when it comes t ..goto | |
| Love the texture... beautiful use of shape and line. Wonderfully balanced. Please tell me what mediums you are using. Bravo. Beautiful blue. ..goto | |
| Spray paint... great idea. I tried some metallic spray paint. I really like your use of line and bright vivid colors. The straight lines really bring out the odd shaped rectangles with the contrast ..goto | |
| Wunderbar John -Paul. Such energy in the ribbons of color dancing around each other. Magnificent balance and the yellow is brilliant as the sun. Good texture and depth. The only weakness is that ..goto | |
| Gorgeous. I love the way we are able, as artists, to slow down the process and make a piece a part of our lives . It is so much more contrasting and all encompassing to view when it comes to abstract ..goto | |
| by the way the yellow and aqua-marine color really pop and make me feel under water... very fluid. ..goto | |
| Wonderful use of form and lie. The sun really shines... Did you use a metallic paint? Its beautiful, I can feel the heat and energy radiating from it. Love the texture. At first it seemed a little ..goto | |
| I really like this two piece. I like how the top seems to be vertically orientated, i.e. brush stroke, adn the bottom one in contrast is horizontal... which leads to great balance and contrast that m ..goto | |
| Such energy. Great colors and techniques. Very nicely done. Many compliments. ..goto | |
| Wonderful use of white space in this piece. Excellent drip, you do an excellent job of integrating the drip so that it does not seem the accident, but essential to the composition of the piece. Wond ..goto | |
| Wonderful use of the oils. The colors are excellent. The ochre and grey and white really work well. The hints of red and blue really add to the composition is a wonderful balance between warm and c ..goto | |
| Fascinating piece of true creative power expressed beautifully on canvas. I love the idea of found objects incorporated into the work... it really adds another dimension and contrast along with textu ..goto | |
| There seems to be a resolution problem with this piece. I would love to comment later. ..goto | |
| Wonderful use of color and an ode to painting in a painting in poetry it would be called ars poetica. It is beautiful how the eye moves from hand to brush to drops of paint and expands to delicate mi ..goto | |
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Brilliant use of texture as a major compositional element. Wonderful use of negative space. Is there fabric incorporated? Fantastically pulled off. peace Abby ..goto |
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| You are a wonderful surrealist. You are very skilled with pencil and your compositions are fascinating. Very symbolic.Have you tried putting this surrealist talent to the test and use acrylics or pe ..goto | |
| What a refreshing sense of texture and technique. Wonderful use of objects and mediums to create balance and contrast that intrigues the senses. I can't say enough about the originality and talent I ..goto | |
| Wonderful use of drip incorporated into the piece. Excellent balance. Great use of negative space and depth. Nice works. ..goto | |
| This is a wonderful piece of work... I like the idea that you took something that held some materialistic value to you. It was of the finest materials etc. and you broke down that barrier in order t ..goto | |
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I love the depth of this piece. The shadow behind the red at the bottom is so enchanting. Very tasteful use of color for balance and dimension. Fabulous. Peace Abby ..goto |
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| The balance in this piece is magnificent. I mean color, shape, line, and curve. All seem to mesh beautifully into a great composition. Your portfolio is very diverse. Very different styles. I woul ..goto | |
| Mesmerizing, organic, full of depth. I really like the way you have incorporated a controlled drip that feels in the context of the composition to become root like. In this way the whole piece is ti ..goto | |
| Wonderful use of mixed media here to achieve a sense of contrast. The black seems a little heavy handed on the left of the piece, but I love the delicate lines of color and charcoal. I really like y ..goto | |
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I can't say enough about the beauty of this piece. I love the embedded imagery. The cool colors balance well with the deep meaning that the title and the images suggest. Peace Abby ..goto |
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| Wonderful energy in this piece. I love the golden hues. Beautifully balanced burgundy. Altogether lovely piece. ..goto | |
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Fantastic piece, I like this one even more... I love the way you apply the oil and use a turpentine or thinner of some sort to create a sense of dimension. Love the drip. Very Volcanic. Bravo ..goto |
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| Wow. Very impressive. You really have a mastery over the pigment and acetate combination. Visually stimulating and intriguing. I keep discovering new details that are gorgeous. Very elegant. ..goto | |
| Your style of painting works really well for the subject matter. I really like the vacant look on the woman's face, it is like the piece tells a story. In fact I would have made her face the center ..goto | |
| Very Nice work. You have an excellent energy and great use of line and color. Well done. ..goto | |
| Beautiful use of the oils. Wonderful energy. Very Impressed. Love the center of the piece. Bravo. ..goto | |
| I really love this piece. Beautiful use of color and texture. Wonderful energy and enthralling imagery. Bravo. ..goto | |
| Splendid piece of art. Truly electric in image as well as color. A masterpiece. ..goto | |
| Wonderful color and energy in this piece. Love the liquid feeling and the ribbons of blue. Wonderful variations of the color by the way. Bravo ..goto | |
| Beautifully done abstract figure. I particularly like the red accents of color. It seems a little bottom heavy however, my eye has difficulty moving up to the face of the figure. Perhaps background ..goto | |
| Love the color and the energy of this piece. Not sure how the lines on the left side work with the overall, but I really love this piece. I really like the center with the blue and the reds. Bravo ..goto | |
| Wonderful symbolism and a beautiful sense of depth. I love the impression of movement and it feels like the piece has a living background. Very well done. ..goto | |
| I love the eye, very Egyptian. The symbolism adn the backgrounds are so amazing. I really like your whole portfolio. Such interesting ideas and these pieces really make you think. Very well don. ..goto | |
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OMG thanks soooo much for all of your comments. I hope no one gets the joke in Never Trust A Prankster. Thanks for the ratings too. Namaste, Abby ..goto |
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| I really love this work. I love your Egyptian like eyes and the obscure symbolism. Beautiful colors and the line is so eloquent and carries the eye nicely around the painting. Bravo. ..goto | |
| Wonderful in pencil or paint you have an eye for balance and I think I keep seeing the same symbol in a lot of your paintings. Is it a personal mark, or does it have some deeper meaning. I'll do som ..goto | |
| Wow... such balance, such talent and skill. You are a marvelous artist. Keep it up. ..goto | |
| Oh, yeah and the depth is superb. ..goto | |
| Fabulous... Love the imagery. The third or inner eye seems to be represented a lot in your works. I love it. It's what expressionism is all about. Even when I try to eliminate the eye from my work ..goto | |
| Absolutely one of my favorites. You have a very unique style and probably a unique way of opening up that inner eye as this piece is titled. What ever works... for the sake of art... you'd be surpri ..goto | |
| I love the titles of your works too. Excellent job on the hands, and there's that symbol again... I simply must know what it means if anything. It is beautiful. ..goto | |
| Ahh I love the eye. Pen too. Wow. Wonderfully Egyptian. ..goto | |
| I absolutely love your work. I love the energy, the colors, the line and curve are beautifully balanced. Excellent piece. ..goto | |
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Well, the transit series. Anonymous people, no one singled out, and melted into their surroundings. Just a collective movement. So far I can follow quite well. But then you use these semi circled brus ..goto |
| Well, I don’t want to compare the transit paintings with the ones that show individual figures. I think that working on the transit / commuter theme is very interesting for this is our daily life. The ..goto | |
| Well, your conclusion that my „inspiration is coming from the Baroque“ is pretty much off the track. So please let’s repeat just a few things for maybe my unexperienced English led you to think this w ..goto | |
| It’s funny, I was only minutes away from writing a short comment about that it cannot be our business to tell other artists how to paint. If there is a tendency in my last comment it’s not what I had ..goto | |
| I want to point out two paintings in particular, Pink Mat and Wrestlers in Foyer. In those paintings there is so much energy and drama. And with keeping the surroundings clear and almost empty you foc ..goto | |
| Well, this may be a good idea Hillel. So let's have a try. For some days I'm going to load up thre of my older paintings (from 20003 to be more precise) from the series "At Arms Length" ..goto | |
| "From 20003" hehe. Oh the types! ..goto | |
| Well, the shifts ... after my time in New York I was fed up with inventing figures. I thought why invent silly things when nature has such strong objects in store. And I was fed up with theories and c ..goto | |
| Well Billy, I find your approach towards this theme remarkable. It highlights the charakteristic speciality that makes this genocide and massmurder the most gruesome in history. The industrial way of ..goto | |
| Well Miranda, I like this too but have just the same question as Patricia. So please answer our question, will you? Actually it looks very small but if it doesn't matter for so or so it's impressive a ..goto | |
| Oh, thank you for the information Patricia. 16 beds, that must look even more interesting ..goto | |
| Hi Rainer, I like your African series but this I like best. Very good brushwork! Good colouring! Very vigorous. ..goto | |
| Sheila, this I like best. You know that with flowers there is the same problem as with the nudes. One can easily slip into the kitschy section of art. The only attitude that helps out of this maybe mo ..goto | |
| Welcome Karen. Good idea to also join this website. I like to see your work here! ..goto | |
| Having an interior as a background automatically tells it’s own story interferring with that one the body tells. So for me, looking at your paintings from 2005, all the bodies are embedded in that laz ..goto | |
| What I am talking about is that it doesn’t really matter what the artist says. For that’s only about intention. Important is what the artwork says. One cannot stand near to it all the time explaining: ..goto | |
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| Well, I am not into art theory. I am not into any theory at all. Theories are for philosophers or clerics or that kind of people. In the end theories are only expressable with words. They are made out ..goto | |
| I like your artwork very much to begin with. And of course I would like to see it „in the flesh“. In these small dimensions there isn’t much more to be seen than texture. But even then it has an atmos ..goto | |
| I would like to dedicate the Woyzeck series to both Karen Kruse and Maria Xagorari. To Karen for it is about nude men, a neutral background, the colouring of the skin, poses that are not from the clas ..goto | |
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| Maria, I just spotted this one. It looks very interesting to me for it’s so different from what you usually do. Very vivid and light and happy with a good light and a good plasticity. It’s painting an ..goto | |
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| Not at all did I take your choice as a criticism. In contrary I am very happy that you have your own well defined view of things. I just wanted to express why I like number three so very much. Yes and ..goto | |
| Karen, that is very well spoken. I have exactly the same feelings for Hillel's work. Thank you for putting it into words. ..goto | |
| It’s interesting how close another artists work can become if one had the chance to know the personel she’s working with. Now, after the trapani experience it’s not just a face but that dear person wh ..goto | |
| So now I can judge that this is a very good drawing ..goto | |
| Dear Maria, I just spottet it today (21.7.07) and I'm impressed. Wonderful! ..goto | |
| Dear Maria, go on, go on, go on, don't stop. You are on a good way. I know you can do it. It shows great promise. ..goto | |
| The famous beginning of Joyce’s book Finegans Wake „ riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Enviro ..goto | |
| Maria, don't dare to paint on top of this. Take a new canvas s'il vous plait. ..goto | |
| Nikoletta, whatever it is that you’ve said, you are absolutely right. You have the eyes for to look at things properly. You see what’s important and what’s not. And this painting for sure is a great b ..goto | |
| Hi Anne, nice to hear from you. And it is consoling that at least my paintings are doing a good job in telling something helpful about painting or in other words about looking at things properly. Of c ..goto | |
| Well Maria, with narration it’s a bit as Hillel described it for seeing figures in every pattern. We have a tendency to see a narration in every combination of figures. Put a woman and a man together ..goto | |
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| Karen, as far as I can see you did a very good job. When I compare this final version with the one you sent to me beforehand I have to say that you mastered all the little problems which are hidden in ..goto | |
| as far as I know Nikoletta said that this looks very much like Maria. And I think she's absolutely right. It's a very interesting portrait as far as I can judge ..goto | |
| Bien amigos, el arte no es una cuestión de l’ artesania. Pero la artesania ayuda enormemente para decir lo que usted quiere ser oído. Si usted no tiene que decir algo la artesania será destreza mera y ..goto | |
| Well, friends, I really wonder about this community. Once Hillel decried that there is too much politeness on this site and critic is only flattering. But he himself forgot about his own criteria and ..goto | |
| Patricia, woran liegt es nur, dass ich deine Zeichnungen so sehr mag? Ich hoffe nur, dass Du vor lauter grünen Linien das Zeichnen nicht ganz vergißt. Nicht gegen die grünen Linien, das weißt du, aber ..goto | |
| Well well, yesterday I waited for my new canvases to be delivered and what happened was that it was postponed from one hour to the next almost the whole day long and in the end the guy who should do t ..goto | |
| Patricia, wouldn’t it be interesting to put some of your works from the Green Line Project onto this website. I mean you are so much engaged with it and I think that we all should have the chance to h ..goto | |
| John-Paul, I don’t quite understand why you have the opinion of producing ugly abstract art only. I mean this example for instance appears to be extraordinary yummy. A huge collection of chocolate bla ..goto | |
| Nikoletta! This photo, as almost all of your work, reminds me of Trapani (By the way: Antonio, thank you again for letting us have this experience!), that nice place, that wonderful time. And I wonder ..goto | |
| Oh, these are the Jacobsen chairs. I know them like sisters and brothers for I had the great pleasure to work in Arne Jacobsen’s office in in Kopenhagen in the late sixties. My that was a very good ti ..goto | |
| Well, „ nice work but ...“ isn’t really a comment isn’t it? Okay, maybe the rest of it got lost somehow while uploading. Anyway John Paul is right that only showing a piece of art often isn’t enough t ..goto | |
| Hillel, thanks for letting us participate. Having just been in Greece for 10 days everything from there now has my special interest. And thanks Fotini (the name is stressed on it's last i as I just le ..goto | |
| Listening to this debate somehow evokes a strange picture in my small brain: It shows something as Saint Augustine, Rabbi Hillel and say Ibn Rushd are sitting together in some kind of shadowy mosque o ..goto | |
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| Welcome Maria. I like your comment but unfortunately I do not fully agree with you. I only agree say 99.9%. Scientists who work on the language phenomenon have said that spoken language comes to appro ..goto | |
| Well Costantino, you really take commenting serious. And john-Paul will be happy. That’s not bad. Okay, you see this painting as a kind of crucifiction. Oh oh, that sounds strange to me and is far awa ..goto | |
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| well my dear, I thought it would be fun to have a long long conversation, nonverbal but with lots of ahs, ohs, uhs and hms instead. So without any facial expression and melody of the voice something l ..goto | |
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John Wood |
an interesting composistion looks like a naked party for old people I find very good. ..goto |
| a very good and intreging art work "love it." ..goto | |
| a good and valuable art work so impressionable. ..goto | |
| A very good conceptual art work "cool." ..goto | |
| A very uniuqe tallent. ..goto | |
| god on the eye none offencive. ..goto | |
| the facial asspect is quite uniuqe. ..goto | |
| the surelist point of view is out done by the colour expression." good keep it up". ..goto | |
| the constant of the opaque colour complements the picture. ..goto | |
| the torment in this picture is quite reminisant of death rebirth and afterlife. ..goto | |
| a uniform pattern of dark and surcumbrant ills. ..goto | |
| a very pronounced view of purple as a tree. ..goto | |
| a good contrast of pinks and purples good to the eye. ..goto | |
| the green lines lead you arond the edge not to the centre, very clever. ..goto | |
| very mecarb and dark unusal but I see what you are saying. ..goto | |
| A quite uniuqe perspective of a person in some sort of contortion. very good. ..goto | |
| A well placed uniform display of colours and lines" very good" ..goto | |
| A good visual concept of red to show the true nature of the falme. ..goto | |
| An indepth view of relationship suffering. ..goto | |
| A quite uniuqe insight into lonlely people. ..goto | |
| An interesting point of vision from thisa artist top rate. ..goto | |
| The concept reminds me of a beach whale in final stages of decay ..goto | |
| An interesting visual concept of two boats if that is the intention very good. ..goto | |
| Very spider like I like it. ..goto | |
| The industrial point of view with nature is disturbing but true. ..goto | |
| the image reminds me of DNA and the centre is that of an ovam. ..goto | |
| Again DNA almost at the edge of the egg. ..goto | |
| The way the bridge controls the plume is inspiring. ..goto | |
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| The pattern though basic show the the waves perfect giving a good perspective of water ..goto | |
| Very natural and origanal" very good I like this" ..goto | |
| Reminds me of bieng in space looking down at an Island on earth. ..goto | |
| The digital fractulatiuon shows this composition to be insightful. ..goto | |
| A very deep view of women an intended perspective I guess. ..goto | |
| These peice I really love as it reminds me of what sometimes goes off in my head haha ..goto | |
| Love the instyling of the obscure figure love it!! ..goto | |
| She most definatlly is Juliet ..goto | |
| Very intricate love the swirlling effect very nice!! ..goto | |
| WOW WOW!! ..goto | |
| OMG!! EXCELENT!! ..goto | |
| I love this the mood in this is so full of good sensasion :) ..goto | |
| But do they get the joke I hope not haha!! ..goto | |
| Nice and gentle i really like this one"" ..goto | |
| The patterns of blue and pink work well and compliment each other I love it! "HURAH FOR ART" ..goto | |
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Anne Duffy |
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| great. like a modern Joan Eardley ..goto | |
| I like the dimensional aspect of this and the use of accent colour.The "black" shape in the middle reminds me of a book and also of a zinc etching plate. There is distance in the background. It is goo ..goto | |
| yes, I too see something of Francis Bacon in your work, altough not particularly in this painting. ..goto | |
| That made me laugh! I like these small paintings anyway and they've given me an idea on how to tackle a project I'm doing this comming year. Will put the stuff up on Studio log. ..goto | |
| It' just struck me that the style of these paintings is like certain artists from the '30s. Was that deliberate or unconscious, given the subject matter? ..goto | |
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| I like this but..dunno - the face shows pain but the posture is relaxed. The figure and the room are at odds. ..goto | |
| I think this works much better than the previous one. There is an overall feeling of tension. ..goto | |
| Maria, I saw some of Kiefer's work years ago at Tate Liverpool and loved it but Munch's work does nothing for me. "The Shore of Memory" was one of the paintings I made following my brother's death 2 y ..goto | |
| Edward Hopper comes to mind but there is also a British artist whose name I can't bring to mind. Will post it when I remember. ..goto | |
| A very powerful painting ..goto | |
| This is a superb painting Maria ..goto | |
| Another great painting. It evokes aeons of ancient history. ..goto | |
| Is it a child? The best paintings always aquire a life of their own. ..goto | |
| faithful old dog! ..goto | |
| I really like this. I think clothes can be expressive in the same way that you say body parts can be. ..goto | |
| I don't think the function of old film posters was to narrate, they aimed to give a glimpse of, a peek at a story that you would want to see. Medieval paintings aimed to tell the whole story, later on ..goto | |
| Elaine, I'm very interested in the concept of Home. Were you , in fact, homesick when you painted this? It looks very tranquil but also a bit closed in. Does it relate to the land or to feeling - or b ..goto | |
| Thank you Hillel, I really appreciate that. Painting is a wonderful and mysterious thing, there is your conscious intention,there are all sorts of things that come out from your unconscious and then t ..goto | |
| I agree that things emerge as you paint. And not everything has to be "deep." There is joy in colour and pattern, in line. ..goto | |
| Quite right. It's monumental. ..goto | |
| It looks stunning John-Paul. How could you bear to have your creation wiped out? I'm interested in the "story." I've done residencies in public galleries and didn't mind the public at all but when I d ..goto | |
| I think this is wonderful. Your work is so striking but some of your images are so horrible that I don't want to look at them. ..goto | |
| This seems so different to the rest of your portfolio. I like it. ..goto | |
| I think this is an amazing painting. Inspiring. ..goto | |
| Hanjo, I've learned a lot from your explanation. Thank you. ..goto | |
| Hanjo what a tutor you are. You have taught me so much in this painting. ..goto | |
| First and foremost it's a wonderful painting! ..goto | |
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I can't remember making this comment (been moving house, mind elsewhere.) If it was me,sorry, I can't remember. ..goto |
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| On reflection, the above comment is inadequate. I think I meant "Well, what can you say!" The thing that goes through my head is "bad day on the Planet." A touch of the werewolves. Somebody feeling ro ..goto | |
| Although there is so much yellow it is not overpowering because of the figure. It's visually very satisfying and I like the concept (from medieval times?) of showing different phases of a life in one ..goto | |
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I was sad when I painted it as my brother had died. I am the only person in the picture left. I could not paint their faces for emotional reasons. Composition-wise, I had difficulty with the kite, ..goto |
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| Maybe you think they are not good technically but I imagine they have a presence far more powerful than a photograph. ..goto | |
| wow! I never realised all that but you are right. It was all done on instinct but now I see what you mean. The difficulty I had with the kite was not it's position but the size and the colour. These c ..goto | |
| I like this. Lets see more of your work. ..goto | |
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karen kruse |
Maria,I love it,in it's simple but intense construction. Very powerful. Has quitado aditamentos,y lo has destilado hasta obtener solo lo importante. Enhorabuena! ..goto |
| I am not as good as you are commenting paintings, but I´ll try to express my point of view the best I can. I think that the art of our times, today’s art follows a general trend of muteness. It is b ..goto | |
| I agree with you, the artwork speaks by itself, much better than we do. I’d rather let it be read and not talk about it , as you said depends on who sees it, its a story or another. I guess I need m ..goto | |
| Hanjo, I have been without internet these past two weeks. Finally, yesterday I could connect myself and the first thing I did was to take a look at your new paintings, see what you were doing, and th ..goto | |
| You don’t have to apologize , it isn’t a question only about you, that's why I said “we”, I mean I’m begining to doubt if there is something that can be said to help somebody make a better artwork, be ..goto | |
| This is a sketch I did a few years ago, and the arms formed a kind of knot which I didn't work much,(I just worked his face ) I have started a second version of this, on a larger format including this ..goto | |
| Thank you Claudia for your comments, it is true, there are not many women painting men. I dont think it is a question of being brave, I think it is a question of bei |