Usually, words about pictures and pictures that talk, but this is words and music that make pictures. —CNQ Text by Julien Bismuth Music composed by Giancarlo Vulcano Drums by Greg Stare Trombone by Brian […]
IMHO it’s a rather abstract title for a fast-motion film about propagation, sexual and asexual, that culminates in an orgasmic puff of fertilizing dispersal. But see what you think. —CNQ
The black cloud on the horizon (or is it a little closer than that) is the first thing, but then the parallel sun emerges while receding, the top and bottom of the painting come closer […]
The most playful, inventive, carefree, totally off-the-wall painter around. The sketchbooks are the laboratory full of ideas, possible approaches and experiments with color, materials and methods. Because it is summer, I’ve imposed some order by […]
“Ducks’ Ditty” All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! From “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame (full poem here) The ducks don’t like it. They […]
If you only know Rachel Youen’s paintings of constructed, labyrinthian still lives, you might think she never goes outside. Not true. Dense forests, an aerial view of a bridge, and botanical studies are described in […]
John Berger and the documentary filmmaker Mike Dibb are populists. They believe that painting is for everyone. And so do I. The conundrum that every contemporary painter must struggle with is to keep that humanist […]
Drift of Juicy looks like it was made with high-tech digital effects but Pürrer made it in 1989 with analog video. It was unique then and is literally inimitable today. Whether it takes place in […]
The restless night owl Peggy Ahwesh likes to travel and “have adventures.” So since the “world was topsy turvy this summer,”* she scouted locations in upstate NY during the day, drove out along deserted country […]
…is not easy though I thought it would be. Of course Fantasy of Heat is a watercolor: it is painted transparently with easy fluid brushstrokes and I can’t paint that way. I put some paint […]
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