PIG FARMING IN BOLIVIA (for LEIGH BOWERY), 2011.

DOOR WHORE (for LEIGH BOWERY), 2011

Titles (2011):

Me as Carravagisto
Firstlings
Make it nice
Blicks & bilds (I & II)
Boundry violation
Peel me
Forgotten sailor
Fake shit 4 $$$$
Whiners & Complainers (I & II)
Changeless song
May growth
Gosh & Golly (I & II)
Walnut power
Ancient pattern
Fear wall
Tongue bone
Primary waters of the body
Salutat (for Thomas Eakins, 1898)
Dawn on me
Brokened
Form-change
Wish cow
Hollow Bone
Hand-made with fake patina
'cuz
The year of OM
Self-portrait with heart replaced by heavy river stone
Bum rap
Empty boat to cross great rivers
Put to the foot!
Being calls being
Deep unrest (for Giorgio Morandi)
Pittura Metafisica
Pull my eyes
Diva & Rex
Portrait of HK
Bitch-ass chump
Mary Ville
Isolato

Hugh Saint Amour sweet talks our way into David Mervish's private collection of Frank Stella (2) and Kenneth Noland (2) in David Mervish's old bookstore. Ten minutes or so of viewing under the soft light coming in from narrow skylights. The Stella's are probably 15 meters wide. Epic stuff hidden from view in downtown Toronto.

Hear Cy Twombly's voice for the first time after all these years, his low, slow, syrupy Virginia drawl. Spoken interview as part of the Artist Documentation Program with the head conservationist @ the De Menil collection in Houston, Texas, Sept. 17, 2000.

Visit to the new extension at the MMFA. Problematic & disappointing, inside & out.

HK = 68!

Visit to the AGO, Toronto, Ontario:

Kathleen Munn, 1887-1974.

Pierre Bonnard, "Autumn Landscape", 1933, oil on canvas.

Nicolas Poussin, 'Venus, mother of Aeneas, presenting him with arms forged by Vulcan", 1636-37), oil on canvas.

Emile Nolde, "Holiday Guests", 1915, oil on canvas.

Antony Van Dyck, "Michel Le Blon", 1630-1635, oil on canvas.

Rembrant Van Rijn, "Portrait of Lady with a lap dog", 1665, oil on canvas.

Peter Brueghel the younger, "The peasant's wedding", 16??, oil on canvas.

The Jativa Master, "The Cruxifiction", around 1400, oil on canvas.

Crow artist, "Buffalo Robe", about 1850, Buffalo skins.

Gershon Iskowitz, "Spring Reflections", 1963, oil on canvas.

Patterson Ewen, "Cloud over water", 1979,

David Milne, "Across still lake", 1936, oil on canvas.

Pitseolak Ashoona, "In the Summer there were always big mosquitos", 1970, pen & ink on paper.

Unknown Tlinglit artist, "Soul catcher", 1790-1870, carved bone + abelone shell inlay.

Unknown Haida artist, "Soul cather". around 1850, carved bone + abelone shell inlay.

Paul-Emile Borduas, "Beating of wings of Bonaventure", 1954, oil on canvas.

Tom Thompson, "Pink birches", Summer 1915, oil on board.

Tom Thompson, "Northern Lights", Spring 1917, oil on board.

Tom Thompson, "Sand Hill", Fall 1915, oil on board.

Tom Thompson, "The red maple", Algonquin Park 1915, oil on board.

Tom Thompson, "The last snow, Algonquin Park, Spring 1914, oil on board.

Willem de Kooning, "Painting", 1949, oil on canvas.

Lee Krasner, "Untitled", 1949, oil on canvas.

Robert Motherwell, "The voyage", (1949), oil on canvas.



"Do you know what the real subject is? Freedom."

- Willem De Kooning to Phillip Guston.



Joan Mitchell, "Ladybug", 19??, oil on canvas.

Phillip Guston, "Painting", 1954, oil on canvas.

Phillip Guston, "The clock", 1956-57, oil on canvas.

Phillip Guston, "Edge of Town", 1969, oil on canvas.

Phillip Guston, "North", 1961-63, oil on canvas.

Phillip Guston, "Inhabitor", 1963, oil on canvas.

Visit to LANDAU FINE ART, Montreal:

-Joan Miro, pencil drawing.
-Rene Magritte, almost monochromatic painting.
-Pablo Picasso, pencil drawing dated 10 Oct. 1965.
-Henri Matisse, face drawn in pencil, 1938.
-Ferdinand Leger, 1927, oil on canvas.
-Georges Braques, 1917, oil on canvas.
-Jean DuBuffet, 1958, oil on canvas.
-Jean DuBuffet, 1975, oil on canvas.
-Max Ernst, painting / frottage.
-Paul Klee x 2.
-Amadeo Mogdiliani, rare potrait of a couple, oil on canvas.

"Make way for Magic,
make way for Love."

-excerpt from Refus global
August 9, 1948
Montreal, Quebec

@ Galerie Simon Blais:

Jean-Paul Riopelle, "Paysage d'autre fois", 1977, oil on canvas. ($325 000)

Jean-Paul Riopelle, "Eclat", 1977, oil on canvas. ($325 000)

Marcelle Feron, "Untitled", 1954, oil on canvas. ($90 000)

Titles:

Self-portrait under the influence of the Moon (in the 8th house).
Self-portrait under the influence of Saturn (in the 10th house).
Self-portrait under the influence of Rahu (in the 9th house).
Self portrait under the influence of Venus (in the 11th house).
Self-portrait under the influence of the Sun & Mercury (in the 12th house).

OK PAINT POT

"In conclusion, I hope that this mediocrity, conditioned by too many factors foreign to art per se, will this time bring a revolution on the aesthetic level, of which the general public will not even by aware and which only a few intiates will develop on the fringe of a world blinded by economic fire-works. The great artist of tomorrow will go underground."

-MARCEL DuCHAMP, "Where do we go from here?", 1961.

Lucien Freud, dead @ 88, in London.

R.I.P., great lion.

Four hours a night,
seven days a week,
for 16 months

= one painting.

"Art is about seizing & holding space."

-Carl Andre

T.S.I.T.C.O.T
(The soul is the center of things), 2011.

(The monotony of perfection)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario:

Caravaggio, "Boy bitten by a lizard:, 1594-1596, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "The Musicians", 1595, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "The Cardsharps", 1595, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "the Gypsy Fortuneteller", 1595, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Saint Francis", 1598, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Martha & Mary Magdalene", 1598, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Saint Francis in ectasy", 1594-95, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Saint John the Baptist in the wilderness", 1604-05, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Saint Francis", 1606-07, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Sacrifice of Isaac", 1602-03, oil on canvas.

Caravaggio, "Sacrifice of Isaac", 1598-99, oil on canvas.


Peter Paul Rubens, "The entombment", 1612-14, oil on canvas.

Paul Klee, "Angst", 1934, oil on canvas.

Max Beckman, "North Sea I (Thunderstorm)", 1937, oil on canvas.

Norval Morrisseau, "Observations of the Astral World", 1994, acrylic on canvas.

Chaim Soutine, "Piece of Beef", 1923, oil on canvas.

Vincent van Gogh, "Iris", 1889, oil on canvas.

Gustave Courbet, "Waves", 1869, oil on canvas.

Oscar Cahen, "The Warrior", 1956, oil on canvas.

Tom Thompson, "Hot summer moonlight", 1915, oil on board.

Rita Latendre, "Atara", 1963, oil on canvas.

Paul-Emile Borduas, "Tree in the night", 1943, oil on canvas.

Guido Molinari, "Quantifier la Rochelle No. 1", 1980, oil oi canvas.

Daphne Odig, "Infinite Cycle", 1961, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Tikrit", 1953, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Academy", 1955, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Near Parnasus", 1964, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Wilder shores of Love", 1985, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Nini's painting", 1971, oil on canvas.

Cy Twombly, "Camino Real II", 2010, acrylic on canvas.

Cy Twombly dies in Rome, @ 83.

My art lives with family & friends in the following places:

Vancouver, BC
Cold Lake, AB
Toronto, ONT
Coburg, ONT
Ottawa, ONT
Montreal, QC
Mirimichi, NB


New York City, NY
Boston, MASS
Los Angeles, CAL

Paris, FRANCE
Milan, ITALY
Vienna, AUSTRIA
Berlin, GERMANY
Buchbach, GERMANY
Izmir, TURKEY

Francis Bacon documentary by David Hinton (1988)

-work regularly.
-inspiration comes from regular work.
-you make your own technique, trial & error.

"Trying to do it, that's all."

-a deeply ordered chaos.

"to do with your own instinct & sensibility to turn it one way or the other."

-put yourself (as an artist) @ risk.

-every mark to be like the first mark.

"I have a very optimistic nature."
-Francis Bacon

Last shoot day (night!) with HK & JPC!

Giorgio Morandi,
Via Fordazza 36,
Bologna, ITALY

July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964

Q?: What's your position?

A: Keep going!

Paul Cezanne, "Sous-Bois", 1885, oil on canvas.

Patterson Ewen, "Moon over water", 1977, acrylic & gouged plywood.

Titles (2007-09)

Wing it
Old ground
Deep Wish
Do we?
All paths lead home
Swish (for Paul Lynde)
Poor Tom
Text me
Cloud mountain
Whirling mountain
Pegasus & the Unicorn
Seer
Echolalia
Oh lad!
Rock Land (I)
Monk Land (II)
Wolf skin
Lord on High
Mystic thunder
Guido
People say crazy things
OK Anxiety device

Marcel Barbeau, "Les combustions originelles", 1951, huile sur toile.

Edmund Allyn, "Abstrait", 1962, huile sur toile. ($28 000 CAN.)

"A painter should paint not only what he sees before him, but what he sees within himself."

-Caspar David Friedrich
(1774-1840)

Caspar David Friedrich, "Monk by the sea", 1808-10, oil on canvas.

"Fix your course to a star & you can navigate any storm."

-Leonardo da Vinci

"Beauty is an awareness in the mind."

"The goal of life is happiness & to respond to life as though it were perfect is the way to happiness. It is also the way to positive art work."

"The way of an artist is entirely a different way. It is a way of surrender. He must surrender to his own mind."

"Make happiness your goal."
 

-Agnes Martin

Paul Cezanne, "The murder", 1867-70, oil on canvas.
Paul Cezanne, "Still life with apples", 1875 - 77, oil on canvas.
Paul Cezanne, "A modern Olympia", 1872-73, oil on canvas.

James Ensor, "The fall of the rebel angels", 1889, oil on canvas.

Paul-Emile Bennard, "Harvesters", 1888, oil on canvas.

Edvard Munch, "The voice", 1893, oil on canvas

James Abbot McNeil Whistler, "Nocturne in black & gold, the falling rocket", 1875, oil on cavas

Rembrant van Rijn:

Self-portrait in a cap, laughing.
Self-portrait in a cap, open mouth.
Self-portrait in a cap, frowning.
Self-portrait open mouthed, as if shouting.
Self-portrait leaning forward.
Self-portrait, bareheaded.
Self-portrait with high, curly hair.
Self-portrait in a fur cap, in an oval border.
Self-portrait as a young man.
Self-portrait as the apostle Paul.
Self-portrait with a gorget.
Self-portrait with plumed cap & lowered sabre.
Self-portrait with a gorget, laughing.
Self-portrait with a gorget & helmet.
Self-portrait as an officer.
Self-portrait with raised sabre.
Self-portrait in a velvet cap & plume.
Self-portrait with dead bittern.
Self-portrait with a sunflower.
Self-portrait @ the age of 34.
Self-portrait as a Burgher.
Self-portrait in a soft hat & embroidered cloak.
Self-portrait leaning on a stone sill.
Self portrait with Saskia.
Self-portrait drawing at a window.
Self-portrait at the easel.
Self-portrait as a begger.
Self-portrait drawing in a sketch book.
Self-portrait in a cap with the face dark.
The artist in oriental costume, with a poodle at his feet.
Artist in his studio.
An artist draws from a model.
A painter at his easel.

Titles (2007-08) :

Austria for Ostriches
The ubiquitous grid
Interface
Transextramodernist
Bourgeoise Triumph
The market likes my look
Butter Milk
Crippling Doubt (I)
Haunting Doubt (II)
OK me too
Guarded by a sleeping deer
Expanded Field
Kindred Spirit
Paris Bar
Radical Twist
Viewing the deep snow
False History
Eat my skin
Prince Eddy & his dwarf
Distant Thunder
Habit painting
Papa ideal
By the way
Replica
Learning curve
Slipping glimpser
Autovandalismo
Love darkness

Vienna Intermezzo 2005-2007

Genius Loci - "Spirit of the place"

Affinitus - "Divine infection"

Q?: Who is art for?
A: The happy few.

-Rodney Graham
Jan / Feb 2007

AUREOLIN: The glow that emenates from the figures particularly the heads of holy figures in medieval & renaissance art. Head-glow, nimbus, halo.