About Me
- Mark Warren
- Massachusetts, United States
- I am a painter in search of an audience! Here are words to catch search engine hits: painting artist RISD New England Longmeadow Amherst Boston...more as I think of them. Check out my portfolio on a seperate website. The link is on the top of the righthand column
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Art of the Mug #5
I have had some negative feedback about my mugshot feature. I think they are very insightful portraits of both the sitter's personality and of our own prejudices and assumptions. I particularly find the profiles more revelatory. Even the most normal average face is fascinating in this circumstance.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
More from Adrian Ghenie
Adrian Ghenie "Nougat 2"
Adrian Ghenie "The Blue Rain"
Adrian Ghenie "The Dada Room"
Adrian Ghenie "The Devil 3"
Saturday, April 23, 2011
My Books #6
Bookcase #3
Bookcase #3 is in my studio like the two previous cases. Below are two more sets of shelves that because of clutter are harder to photograph. These cases, #4 & #5, are mixed with some art supplies and the small paperbacks are two deep. Click on the photo for larger images. In case anyone could possibly care my other bookcases are available by clicking "My Books" in the right column. This concludes the bookcases in my studio.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Great Quotes
From Goethe
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
From Albert Einstein
"The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits"
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Post-mortem #15
Charles Willson Peale "Rachel Weeping" c.1775
This was a very private picture kept in the corner of Peale's studio behind a drape. It depicts his wife Rachel mourning their dead daughter. He kept a sign with the painting that read, "Before you draw this curtain Consider whether you will afflict a Mother or Father who has lost a Child."
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Underappreciated Artist #5
Porfirio DiDonna
There don't seem to be many images readily available on line of this artist's work. I remember some beautiful Cezannesque oil paintings in the 80"s and 90's at the Nielsen Gallery in Boston. I know very little about the artist other then he began as a very reductionist abstractionist and died of brain cancer at the age of 44 at the height of his talent. These are all works on paper measuring about 29" X 44".
This photograph of Porfirio DiDonna was taken by Peter Bellamy in 1985, a year before his death.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Katie Koti Photographs
Katie Koti "Bridel"
Katie Koti "Wetland"
Katie Koti "Garden"
Katie Koti "Tangle"
Katie Koti "Thaw"
The Artist
More of her work here.
Friday, April 15, 2011
A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky
Lewis Carroll
A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear —
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream?
Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll (yes, that Alice)
Studio Views #10
It's actually a very nice studio but you wouldn't know it because I am such a SLOB! I wish the ceilings were taller. I also can't get very large canvases in or out because the stairway turns. Oh well......
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Another Portrait Series
Mark Warren "Sailor" 12" X 16" oil on linen
Mark Warren "Architect" 12" X 16" oil on linen
Mark Warren "Doctor" 12" X 16" oil on linen
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Who Am I?
I am but the diseased carcass of Cotton Mather and the "city upon a hill". More on this at a later date.
Ode to Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig KIRCHNER, Autoportrait en soldat, 1915
Mark Warren "Self-portrait as an Artist" 12" X 16" oil on linen
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