earl broclo ESQ Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 bojangles --i'm with the last two comments, the middle one takes it. when i scrolled down, and that came up, i instantly liked it. i like the first one as well. the light blue line in the lower right, as well as the brown line that looks like a drop shadow of sorts. nice work as usual. poesia --i'm really into the first one, and agree you should work with it on canvas. the second one i wasn't feeling at first, but when i began to look at smaller sections individually, i began to like it more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 jangles i like the first the colors the colors and i like what the light blue lines doing against the cream line fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Word up. Thanks everyone! P.S. Elizabeth...post more stuff of yours! Me likey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prismone Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 http://www.scottbrubach.com/index.html ^^^^ my high school teacher. his stuff is abstract and loosely based on the interpretation of sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRscribblez Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Bojangles. they're all bad a word. i like the middle one the best too. but i like the skyline in the last one. what city is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Anycity, USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I'VE BEEN THERE!!!!!! omg, i feel so connected to that piece now... but seriously, bojangles, that middle one! here's the best way i can put it: first download ANTS OF THE SKY by BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME (if you don't have it) go to 7:45 thats where i stare at the cream line just below the green at the top of it. just letting my peripheral take in the rest of what is happening at about 8:00 to 8:15 i look down towards the dark swirls and the colors behind them. not necessarily focusing on anything, just letting my sight flow on the texture, in the depth, etc... (other art terms i use but don't think the real world recognizes) at 8:15 i follow the swirl around to the right side of the piece. listen and see the way the feedback flows with the swirls at 8:24/25 on the crescendo the whole piece kind of explodes in and out of focus and i feel like i want to cry (tears, not yell out) of sheer joy. sleep on. fly on. in your mind you can find... sleep on. fly on... as the crescendo dies down, around 8:40, i sort of regain focus and can look at the whole thing as one piece. sleep on. fly on. in your mind you can find... sleep on. fly on... then at 9:12 another build up sort of starts and it really hits again how moving the whole piece is. then i just stare at it for a while. i like it man, very much. i'm not "good" at art. i've never done much beyond mediocrity or a decent bite, music i'm "good" at. the reason i like "abstract" art so much is because of the movement that i feel in relation to the music i'm listening to. sometimes music makes good art boring to me, and bad art amusing. sometimes, like in this situation, amazing music compliments something wholly beautiful and i actually feel alive. (thats the most thought i've put into a post in my entire 8 year career with 12 oz. grats, keep it up) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Holy crap Fist...Set my shit to music and junk! Props. Your whole explanation was really impressive and humbling. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I always get bugged when I see people doing work I should have come up with sooner... Toby Paterson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Yeah thanks joker for making me feel more worthless. That Last one takes the cake. Fucking nice work. The only way to be first is to act. I listened to a great speaker today about passion and action. Im a believer now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_splint2 Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 That Tom McGrath stuff is ill, thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username0913 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 so a while back i posted a painting with fragments all over it. joker tossed me a line and i ran with it. heres the result. plus a little something older.... ive lost sleep because this thing keeps showing up in my dreams. This thing has haunted me for years...still working on it though. opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 certainly abstract. I see that same nightmare sht when I have the flu! Seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anti-Aesthetics Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 stella frank stella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 JOKER, What are your thoughts on Diebenkorn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 More examples of shit i should have done along time ago Elliott Puckette http://www.earlmcgrathgallery.com/galleryartists/elliott/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_splint2 Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Hell yeah, that shit is fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Life is taking its toll on us or were some lazy fucks. Including me. Wheres the work........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Mark Schoening My friend, six months of a beard upon his face, had just flown back from Georgia, the last stop after hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. I picked him up at the airport and, after the hug, the small talk, after the moments when he had my eyes to concentrate upon, the fear set in, the anxiety; I watched his head snap to attention at the slightest movement. To me, it was the usual airport motion. To him, it was as if he saw strangers firing shotguns at the ceiling. The barrage was too much, the information, the quick succession, and for the week he stayed in my apartment I would often catch him with his eyes closed dreaming far off dreams back toward desolation. I do not have the luxury of escape. In this century, in this moment, few of us do. Information piles up: the advertisements, the mechanisms, the media, the people. I am attached to it, in the midst of it, a part of it. However, as a painter, I am also a witness and a reactionary. My paintings are manifestations of the same barrage my friend shied away from. The paintings speak of information explosions, where an entire environment can be physically contained in a seamlessly presented two-dimensional world. It is a reaction to the age of technology we find ourselves living in. The way we look at, perceive, and process ideas has changed, and because of that, because of what the viewer brings to the experience, these painting could not have been created in any other time. This is not so much a comment on myself as it is the viewer. They now have the ability to take in numerous ideas and aesthetic techniques all at once as a consequence of their everyday lives. What I am doing is letting the ideas fall in a frozen plane, allowing for further investigation. http://www.markschoening.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earl broclo ESQ Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 T;6089956']Life is taking its toll on us or were some lazy fucks. Including me. Wheres the work........ everytime i sit down to do any work --i get frustrated and stop. it's annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 I'll have some new pics this week. 3 or 4 new paintings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 i havent even thought about it. im terrible that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 JOKER, What are your thoughts on Diebenkorn? My thoughts on his work aren't all that vast, as I only know of a few pieces from his Ocean Park series. (Was that what it was called?) I recall liking the work but at the same time feeling like I wanted to go into it and clean it up. I think he captured the link between crisp and sloppy at the same time wonderfully. The funny thing about this question is my Grandmother had a framed print of his from the Ocean Park series. I want to say it was #70. Anyway, she loved this style of abstract art... so much so that she bought some original works by a cuban artists showing in DC just after I was born. I can't remember the name of the artist right now but my Mom was telling me that after my Grandmother died she had the original pieces appraised. Come to find out this Cuban artist became collectible and his work sought after in certain collectible circles. The three pieces, now in my Mothers possession are worth quite a bit. The reason I bring it up is because this guys work looks so similar to Rich's work that it's uncanny. I wish I could paint sloppy but still have my lines be distinguished and make sense... flow even. I'm destined to start painting again but I've already told myself that going back to what I was doing wasn't part of the deal. It'll be interesting to see what I do, if I do anything at all. Thanks for the question... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 youve got my email address when you start working on them. before you decide you hate them and scrap it all, i'd like pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Thats interesting, I thought you'd really like him, although now it sort of makes sense why you wouldn't be crazy about him. I really like his earlier strait abstract expressionist stuff. There's surprisingly little on the net of hi work except for the ocean park series and figurative stuff. If i find the time ill find some of his earlier work and post it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 T;6090311'] The paintings speak of information explosions, where an entire environment can be physically contained in a seamlessly presented two-dimensional world. It is a reaction to the age of technology we find ourselves living in. The way we look at, perceive, and process ideas has changed, and because of that, because of what the viewer brings to the experience, these painting could not have been created in any other time.... What I am doing is letting the ideas fall in a frozen plane, allowing for further investigation. http://www.markschoening.com/ Awesome awesome, perfect description written here I've been thinking about communication a lot lately To me this is a great example of it's translation to paint/art/2d form Thanks for all your art post poesia, I hope to join in...soonish ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bring the funk Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 ok,im really slow but i just found this thread and i thinks it great!good to see writers feeling this stuff,i was way abstract in 2001-2003 and looking at this i regret i didnt keep working my abstrcts..i went into stained glass..i'll post pics if i can work out how...great stuff up here n thanks to all of you-inspiring stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 3 new ones: Lala Land Double Duty Coney island Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earl broclo ESQ Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 bojangles --do you lay some of your paintings flat? i'm just curious if you drip your paint in strokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 I paint them all flat. I can't give away full details/secrets but it's done flat as the last step in one movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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