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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/arts/design/09wesley.html?_r=2&th&emc=th

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final ---charity work

I will still do some minor tweaks but this is pretty much the final picture for ronald mcdonald house..

alex's all nighter

here is a terrible cell phone photo of my all nighter bronx zoo cover...off to deliver..will post when photographed correctly..piece is much better than it appears in this photo..

art term of the day: regionalism

Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that was popular during the 1930s. The artistic focus was from artists who shunned city life, and rapidly developing technological advances, to create scenes of rural life. Regionalist style was at its height from 1930 to 1935, and is best-known through the so-called "Regionalist Triumvirate" of Grant Wood in Iowa, Thomas Hart Benton in Missouri, and John Steuart Curry in Kansas. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Regionalist art was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland.

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Thomas hart benton was jackson pollock's teacher, he though poor pollocko was a terrible artist (and he was right) Jackson said to Thomas "if I cannot draw I shall DRIP" and he dripped and it was not good. He did not invent the drip, --- this was a method of the surrealists to open the subconcious which came from the divine leoanrdo who said that one should throw sponges against a wall and create landscapes from the blotches--but I digress..where was I? Not sure..anyways , etc.

painting of the day--american gothic-- grant wood

As a kid I loved this painting and I still think grant wood was a great artist. As a kid I never really understood that there is a bit of sarcasm in this piece. Norman Rockwell never has any cynicism in his work and that is why I like him it was all very direct, no subtext. This painting has subtext. Grant Wood was making a statement here, methinks. I love the american regionalist painters, they are truly american!! Gardega is truly american because I am truly myself and that is a prerequisit of an american artist---honesty to self. We all drink from the same well but some artist lower their bucket deeper than others. I think TV has killed art, I really do. Life smelled better before the idiot box turned our brains into mush. Our minds used to be filet mignon and now we are tv dinners.

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http://www.cityhallnews.com/news/127/ARTICLE/1939/2009-05-22.html