There Is No Avant-garde

There Is No Avant-garde

If I paint ten paintings, I generally keep about 3 or 4. That’s it. Most don’t work out. I think the reason for this is that it is just plain difficult to get into that other dimension where I’m not making pictures but where I just get...

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Duchamp vs Brackman

Duchamp vs Brackman

One can get a sense of the direction painting has taken by comparing early 20th century artists Marcel Duchamp, born in France, with Robert Brackman, born in the Ukraine. (Brackman, as many of you know, immigrated to the US and was my...

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A Nice Failure

A Nice Failure

I often envy non-plein air painters and then again I don’t. At times I wish I could stay in the studio, close the doors, put on beat-up comfortable clothes and paint without distraction. No dragging my easel and supplies out to wherever....

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Tips And Tricks!

Tips And Tricks!

It’s that time of year when I sit down and put my order together to replenish my supply of paint. I hate to tell nasty little secrets out of school, but it is difficult to get decent art supplies in Italy; at least if you do the kind of...

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Free At Last

Free At Last

To me, the worst thing about writing a blog is that my audience is invisible, largely silent and possibly non-existent. As I sit here and bang out the words, my sense as to whom I’m writing is vague at best. Therefore, it is difficult for...

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