BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 11.01.17

Hello Class

Sometimes you need to keep digging, scratching, unearthing that thing you've been doing?

These three pictures of exposed rebarb from a walk in Montreal to me symbolize visually how I want you to continue to mine your young ideas into new paint.  Add paint to your structures you have now developed and see how more than one version of what you've been doing looks?

And here's a couple of painters:

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz

Joan Mitchell

Alexej von Jawlensk

GEORG BASELITZ

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JOAN MITCHELL

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ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY

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SIMON PLASSE @ Galerie du Viaduc, Montreal

Simon Plasse, Paysages Sur Mesures 1

Simon Plasse

Simon Plasse, Paysage 7

Simon Plasse

Simon Plasse gallery installation

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Montreal graffiti

SIMON PLASSE
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MONTREAL GRAFFITI
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DARCI E KOLLIOS @ FORNAX, Roslindale

Darci E Kollios, Insecta, installed at Fornax Bakery

DARCI E KOLLIOS
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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 10.25.17

Hello Class,

Last week we played out a new process creating our own iconography for abstract picture-making.

We will continue in this vein and give you more images from contemporary artists for you to consider:

 SARAH MORRIS: Buildings of Midtown

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SUSAN ROTHENBERG: Horses

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JIM DINE: Tools

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SIGMAR POLK: Simultaneous Imagery

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ARTHUR DOVE: Symbolic Landscape Imagery

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See You in Class

ROSLINDALE OPEN STUDIOS

 

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MARK ROTHKO - Reflection @ MFA Boston

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1945

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1949

Mark Rothko, No. 9, 1948

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko, No. 1, 1961

Mark Rothko, No. 7, 1964

Mark Rothko

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Mark Rothko - Reflection @ MFA Boston
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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 10.18.17

Hello Class

Here is something to chew on: how to develop a theme?

We can do some investigation of Image-Based Abstraction.

We can develop paintings derived from real world images and work them into personal visions.

Bring some pictures (printed out on regular paper) of a single theme.

Here's Richard Diebenkorn who worked from life into abstraction and swayed between the two:

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

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CONTAINER MAN music stage

Container Man performance

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

New Art Archaeology Project

New Art Archaeology Project: Tamas Mosonyi

New Art Archaeology Project

New Art Archaeology Project

New Art Archaeology Project: Gregor Gall

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

The grounds of Contemporary Arts International

Container Man performance

Container Man

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Contemporary Arts International

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New Archaeology Project

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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 10.11.17

Hello Class:

Come ready to explore your alternative tool use paintings and seek out new directions.

I'll even bring a paint roller to class and talk about big gestures.

Here's somebody locally that's done some painting with big gestures:

Pat Steir

PAT STEIR PAINTINGS

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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 10.04.17

Hello Class:

Last week we introduced a squeegee.  Now I introduce you to another artist using the squeegee and brush gesture to create slippery, adventurous, exploratory abstract paintings.  He also makes use of tape to create juxtapositions of color.  So this week we can continue our gesture explorations and see what tape can do.

This is DAVID REED:

David Reed

David Reed

David Reed

DAVID REED

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