3P F15: 3

VIS 340                                                                                                   Gregory M. Gómez

In Pursuit of Personal Preferences: 3P 3

http://blog.otherpeoplespixels.com

Deception Pass

Acrylic on panel

24 x 30 inches

2014
If this wasn't a painting it might almost look like someone cut up paper and glued it to the canvas. Or it was sown into the canvas. It has a very block like linear layout. Notice how the line are all horizontal? I like the very simplistic approach to color and shading. Take the cloud for example. Have you ever seen a could that the grays were separated? Why no, surly not. and yet there is a representation of depth and layers within the separated shades of gray. 

http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/ceal-floyer/gallery/1488

Ceal Floyer 
Solo, 2006

This is not a painting but it is silly and considered to be art. It is very simplistic but it gives me the idea that perhaps if you took a shape it could be replaced with only slight variations in the meaning. Well for sure the meanings would be different. However a viewer might be able to understand the original meaning as well as the new interpretations. It is also funny because culturally (in america at least) who hasn't sung into a hair brush as a microphone? Perhaps this is a broad statement but it puts the viewer into a lot of thoughts. Where as some of the other painting are more about technique this piece of art is more about content.

Koenig & Meyer 'Proline' mic stand, 22mm mike holder, hairbrush

http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/ceal-floyer/gallery/1488

http://www.galleryschoolhouse.com/adam-davies/#.Vclw8xNVhHw

http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/thomas-hart-bentons-america-today-mural.html

Detail, Instruments of Power panel of Thomas Hart Benton's America Today Mural, 1930–31, egg tempera with oil glazing over Permalba on a gesso ground on linen mounted to wood panels.

DH_Woolworth_SummerDay_16x8

Dian Horowitz

http://www.galleryschoolhouse.com/diana-horowitz/#.Vcl5DxNVhHw

http://www.galleryschoolhouse.com/james-everett-stanley/
Derrick
James Everett Stanley
12x10

http://www.galleryschoolhouse.com/william-scully/#.VcmT1RNVhHw

William Scully

Muddy River, Emerald Necklace: Banks

16 x 24 inches

oil/linen

2010

http://www.nancyfriese.com/painting_b1.php

This is beautiful. I love the idea of painting water. What is scary is that it is hard enough to paint objects as it is but to paint something that is never really still, that is a magical feat. For sure no one would be fooled by the notion that this is real but perhaps a little bit of idealized realism is in play. Maybe, maybe not. Also the colors, while rather drab, are very much vivacious. 

List of sites to visit for week of 9/25/15

Museums:

            http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/

            http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en

            https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/

Artist Blog:

            http://hyperallergic.com/236411/painting-everday-objects-in-all-their-glory/

            http://www.artorbiter.com/artists-curate/

            http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/roger-tibbetts-making-and-meaning.html?spref=fb

            http://seancheetham.blogspot.com/

            http://eye-likey.blogspot.com/

Galleries:

            http://www.fsfaboston.com/                                                

            http://www.martinlawrence.com/index2au.html                                         

            http://www.lissongallery.com/artists                                                           

            http://www.galleryschoolhouse.com/artists/

            http://www.riccomaresca.com/artists/

            http://geoform.net/?queryID=yes&queryIDnum=558&groupNum=0

            http://hammondgallery.com/wordpress/gallery-artists-2014

Artists:                       

http://www.tilted-arc.com/2015/02/03/artists-on-rhythm-debra-ramsay/

http://www.thegorgeousdaily.com/odd-nerdrum/

http://www.tinafeingold.com/               

            http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/?page_id=627

            http://www.nancyfriese.com/painting_b1.php

            http://www.richardclaremont.com/

Video:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWpYD4LWpVc

3P F15: 2

VIS 340                                                                                 Gregory M. Gómez

3P F15:  2

List of sites to visit for week of 9/18/15

Mary Pratt 

Red Currant Jelly, 1972 

oil on Masonite, 45.9 x 45.6 cm 

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 

untitled (in honour of Leo at the 30th anniversary of his gallery), 1987

Dan Flavin 

American, 1933 - 1996 

red, pink, yellow, blue, and green fluorescent light

122 x 122 x 20.3 cm (approx.)

Gift of the artist, Wainscott, New York, 1994

National Gallery of Canada (no. 37580) 

© Estate of Dan Flavin / SODRAC (2013)

http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=43407

Considering Specimens, 1989

Frederick Hagan 

Canadian, 1918 - 2003 

colour lithograph on cream wove paper

48.7x 56.4 cm

Gift of the artist, Newmarket, Ontario, 1998

National Gallery of Canada (no. 40027.39)

http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=50193

Look to the Country, 1989

Frederick Hagan 

Canadian, 1918 - 2003 

colour lithograph on wove paper

49 x 58 cm

Gift of the artist, Newmarket, Ontario, 1998

National Gallery of Canada (no. 40027.51)

http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=50205

Migration 1

2014

Oil and acrylic on aluminum

36" x 48"

Photo credit: Stewart Clements

http://blog.otherpeoplespixels.com/otherpeoplespixels-interviews-cristi-rinklin

http://blog.otherpeoplespixels.com

Goliath

Acrylic & graffiti marker on canvas

48"x 60"

2012

Austin Texas 

Hand embroidered on canvas (detail)

42" x 36"

2009

http://blog.otherpeoplespixels.com

http://blog.otherpeoplespixels.com/tag/painting
Ribbed Cave (With Uccello)2014
Oil on canvas
45"x 30"

Fire Wall

Oil on panel, 48″x48″

http://galencheney.com/2012/06/firewall/

http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/artists/margot-bergman/

Margot Bergman

Peony

2008

acrylic on canvasboard

16 x 12 in

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Museums:

           http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/

            http://www.gallery.ca/en/

           

Artist Blog:

            http://blog.otherpeoplespixels.com/otherpeoplespixels-interviews-cristi-rinklin

            http://altoonsultan.blogspot.com/search/label/paintings

            http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/color-book/   

Galleries:

            http://www.craigkrullgallery.com/Artists.html

http://www.shfap.com/artists/artists_page.html

http://www.shanecampbellgallery.com/artists/

            http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/artists/

Artists:           

            http://kylestaver.com/pages/painting_thumb_frame.html                                          

http://www.altoonsultan.com/paintings.html                          

http://galencheney.com/   

http://www.mariontivital.com/index2.html

            http://www.christiane-corcelle-arts.com/Index.html

Video:

            William Bailey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=rIL9573z0lg&app=desktop

My hands

My hands

A poem by Madelyn Kingan

I stand two hands facing forwards

facing the truth

facing my hands

Course from the roughness of life

Weathered by wind 

and rain

And 

They have lifted

Pulled

Shaped and designed

My hands speak for themselves

They want nothing but to be of service

To pull others up from the ground and dust them off

In their strength they have carried my burdens

In life the ones to heavy

The ones that want to pull me down

They are Holding on

They are Holding on

I repeat they are Holding on

My hands have come together for prayer 

In times of hardship

Times of rejoicing

Times

They speak for themselves 

They are resilient

They are still my hands

3P F15: 1

VIS 340 Gregory M. Gómez
3P F15: 1
List of sites to visit for week of 9/9/15

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/johannesburg/

Artist:  Johannesburg

Perhaps this is not the most realistic painting in terms of photo realism. However there is a sense of realism in terms of the concept that is being expressed. The background is not just a blank slate of red but not by much. Its almost as if the painting is unfinished more so in the second painting. The colors are even unnatural but they are not lacking in detail. Its as if the subject is real but the image is contorted in such a way that it is almost unnatural or un realistic. Since the eyes are scrunched it gives off a sense of not just laughter but out right unreserved laughter.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/painting/

Apollo, 2010, Oil and linen, 60 x 34 inches

This image is not only representative of an unprecedented event but also captures movement in the form of the flames. The thick paint hides no type of realism but rather a sentiment or idea of the scene. Like water flows through the square like pieces of paint that come together to make the figure are consistent throughout the painting. There is both a darkness and a lightness about the painting. Perhaps more intrusive is dues to the subject matters desire to travel off the page. It is interesting that despite it's contrasting colors one might not be able to distinguish the rocket shape at first. There is a smaller finality from the rocket.

http://paintingperceptions.com/cityscape-painting/interview-with-frank-hobbs

Silo and Rails, Delaware, Ohio 

oil on canvas 48″ x 36″ 2011

http://anneneilsonfineart.com/artists/murphytrogdonayala/

MURPHY TROGDON AYALA

http://anneneilsonfineart.com/artists/murphytrogdonayala/

MURPHY TROGDON AYALA

http://www.williamhavugallery.com/mark-lunning/urban-garden-series-the-path-of-entropy/

Urban Garden Series: The Path of Entropy

zinc plate etching with chine-collé 

27 ½” x 44 ¼” 

http://larrygroff.com/paintings/recent/

Looking past Zora Garden, 2015 18 x 24"

http://www.colinpagepaintings.com/paintings

Colin Page

Oil on Canvas 

Go as deep into the sites as necessary to find images that interest you. Explore these sites to select works, considering why and for which of these traits: subject matter, style, idea, techniques employed, materials, color palette, other.


Museums: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions http://collection.whitney.org/artists/by-letter/A


Artists Blog: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/01/twilights-new-ink-paintings-on-vintage-books-by-ekaterina-panikanova/
http://paintingperceptions.com/interviews/interview-with-andrew-wykes
http://paintingperceptions.com/cityscape-painting/interview-with-frank-hobbs http://vincenthawkins.blogspot.com/

Galleries: http://anneneilsonfineart.com/an-artists/
http://www.wholmangallery.com/artists
http://www.matthewmarks.com/new-york/artists/
http://www.driscollbabcock.com/artists/category/all
http://www.williamhavugallery.com/featured-artists/


Artists’ Websites: http://larrygroff.com/paintings/recent/
http://zachcollinsart.tumblr.com/
http://galencheney.com/
http://www.colinpagepaintings.com/paintings


VIS 340 Gregory M. Gómez

3P, F15

In Pursuit of Personal Preferences,
Weekly Website Investigation



This is an ongoing assignment that will require you to spend time looking at the works of art by other artists and compiling a file of those that interest or appeal to you. You are required to spend at least one hour of work each week in this relaxed and focused endeavor. Each week I will send you an email of a list of websites. These will be from: museums, galleries, art centers, blogs, artists’ personal websites, or web artists’ videos. Allow yourself to investigate these sites and artists following your own interests and inclinations. From those sites you are to select 2-3 individual WORKS each week that catch your eye. The selected works don’t have to be from the same artist. It is somewhat pertinent that you choose images that relate to either drawing or painting; depending on which class you are taking. Grab the images and place them in a file on your computer. Rename the image file with your name and the date and the artist’s name. Example: ggomez,1-22-14,Ensor. In a separate document you are to list the date you grabbed the image, the name of the artist and work, and any information about the work that you find pertinent. You are then to write a couple sentences about why you chose that work. Your reasons for selecting a work are meant to represent your interests, but break this down into categories: subject matter, style, idea, techniques employed, materials, compositional structure, color palette, etc. These categories can be represented in your couple sentences for each image, but you should be as specific as you can, not just “I like it”. Each week you are to send me your properly named images, along with your sentences. I will retain a file for each student, but you should also keep the images and response sentences, adding to your file weekly.

Toward the end of the semester you will go through your file to select 2 or 3 images, which you will write about in regards to: subject matter, style, idea, techniques employed, materials, composition, and color palette, as well as how those things relate to your creative interests. You will compare the images as high points of your semester’s Pursuit of Personal Preferences.