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Nov 7, 2024
Frontier Spirit
Did 19th century 'Modernist' Painting establish a 'frontier spirit ' of unregulated Art? Is it any wonder why many American purchasers of...
Nov 7, 2024
How do you hide anti-individualism?
How do you hide anti-individualism but through the prism of national identity and centralised control in which the national DNA has a...
Nov 6, 2024
Why is photography too often compared with the medium of painting in a favourable light?
Surely the medium of painting will never be replaced by the most recent and most limited of mediums that ironically have itself a shelf...
Nov 2, 2024
Compare
Compare us today with the Surrealists of the 1920/30s, where today we are not dependent upon nightmares and oversexualisation of our...
Nov 2, 2024
Most painters prefer an uneasy marriage between technique and subject matter
Most Painters emphasise a marriage between technique and subject matter, but I prefer to concentrate on tension between intention,...
Nov 2, 2024
The Carbon Footprint of TATT
The carbon footprint of TATT (the Art Top Table) has emerged as a significant contributor r to all art media, especially concerning the...
Nov 1, 2024
Don't Make The Same Mistake
Don't make the same mistake of assuming that Painting has lost its erstwhile multi-tasking multi-functioning umbrella impact since the...
Nov 1, 2024
The Painting Lift-Off
What if Painting wasn't just a visual image of life on Earth but a stored DNA evolution of life contained in its constituent layers, or a...
Oct 1, 2024
The Painting Lift-Off
What if Painting wasn't just a visual image of life on Earth but a stored DNA evolution of life contained in its constituent layers, or a...
Jul 17, 2024
Transform, Don't Replicate
Painting is our gravitational pull, grounding us, focussing us, accelerating us and draws us together by compelling us to work inside...
Jul 17, 2024
The Opposite Of Deconstruction Is A Dialectic
It was created to contrast with absolutism but became itself a dogma that stifled debate by dissolute relativism ad infinitum....
Jul 17, 2024
Paint is organic in contrast with ‘art pesticide’ of AI tech!
AI tech is advanced airbrushed poison to human imperfection and enlightenment. If you impose the frame and not emphasise what’s inside...
Jul 17, 2024
Instinct And Freedom Enables Us To Look At Visual Things Creatively
Indeed, instinct and freedom allow us to look at great Paintings from stela Painters and ask our own set of questions: where did they...
Jul 17, 2024
Free will by deviation and accident cannot be ironed out or legislated for!
Painters are the very best of imperfection and human disproportionality, and even if they could restrict it, they would fail to even...
Jul 17, 2024
Let’s borrow an economic phrase. The Painter’s brush is the invisible hand of the Art world?
We're producers, developers and not just creators by mutual encouragement and open competition, guided by mutual endorsement and...
Jul 17, 2024
This isn't a portrait, but it is ‘portraiture for our age’ in the 21st century?
Surrealism in the 20" century was largely disposed to experiencing the fictional in both hallucinatory and dystopian and utopian dreams. ...
Jun 18, 2024
You can't stop change but you can stop progress
You can't stop change but you can stop progress, either by stasis or by regression, but only temporarily! People lose their way, either...
Jun 18, 2024
Painting Is Still An Act Of The Metaphysical, Non-Linear Transference By Instant Contact
When from hand to brush to paint applied to canvas, a process of resistance from the canvas is engaged, literally and metaphorically. ...
Jun 18, 2024
The Changing state of Painting by the adaptable migration of Paint
The changing state of Painting is transformative from its source as rock, to being processed into liquid and then after application onto...
Jun 3, 2024
If Painting is a metaphor, let me explain why I'll use a metaphor to describe the Painting metaphor
Let me try to explain 'Painting Modernism' for today, as both in the 21s century and as a movement for the last 3 centuries: It has...
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