Saturday

"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.

Friday

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

-Leonardo da Vinci

Sunday

"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

Thursday

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.

Friday

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

Tuesday

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.