portrait - technique, painting

Alex Katz

http://www.alexkatz.com/

Chuck Close
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1156

Dana Schutz
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/dana-schutz_n_3798029.html

David Stern
http://davidstern.us/

Francis Bacon
http://www.francis-bacon.com/

Georg Baselitz
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=366

Lucian Freud
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lucian-freud-1120

Marlene Dumas
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=7521

Robert Hodgins
http://www.goodman-gallery.com/artists/roberthodgins

Comments

Francis Bacon on accidents

This is part of an interview with Francis Bacon by Davis Sylvester, from "Interviews With Francis Bacon" by Davis Sylvester FB I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I tend to destroy all the better paintings. DS Can you never get it back once it’s gone over the top? FB Not now, and less and less. As the way I work is totally, now, accidental, and becomes more and more accidental, and doesn’t seem to behave, as it were, unless it is accidental, how can I recreate an accident? It’s almost an impossible thing to do. DS But you might get another accident on the same canvas. FB One might get another accident, bit it would never be quite the same. This is the thing that can probably happen only in oil paint, because it is so subtle that one tone, one piece of paint, that moves one thing into ...

Flusser

Check out this website , that is all about Flusser. Click on "current issue" for articles about Flusser and art. Valentina - there is an article in 'current issue' - "The Gesture of Writing", by Flusser. Maybe it will help with your work. Flusser Studies Multilingual Journal for Cultural and Media Theory Flusser Studies is an international e-journal for academic research dedicated to the thought of Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). In addition to publishing articles about Flusser’s work, the journal seeks to promote scholarship on different aspects of specifically interdisciplinary and multilingual approaches Flusser himself developed in the course of his career as a writer and philosopher. These approaches range from Communication Theory to Translation Studies, Cultural Anthropology to the New Media.

Places

Mona Hatoum Mobile Home II, 2006 Furniture, household objects, suitcases, galvanized steel barriers, three electric motors and pulley system Richard Sera Richard Sera Richard Sera Roxy Paine's Conjoined , 2007 installed at Madison Square Park, New York Roxy Raine Bruce Nauman MAPPING THE STUDIO II with color shift, flip, flop, & flip/flop (Fat Chance John Cage) Julia Scher, Security by Julia II , Artists Space, New York, 1989. Palais de Tokyo, Paris Janet Cardiff Muriel Lake Incident 1999 Janet Cardiff Forty-Part Motet 2001 (British Edition)

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