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, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Craig's List Fun #3
artists who live and work in the nude (cambridge and environs)
I'M trying to find fellow free spirits who live and work au natural when weather and circumstance permit.Bohemians, artists, actors, writers, nudists etc etc are all more than welcome to send along an email.
We can chat about the creative process and enjoy the upcoming spring and summer.
Perhaps we can organize a field trip or two to New England's nude beaches and camp grounds
Anyone up for nude volleyball, maybe hold a drawing class, maybe just chill or even listen to the Sox or NPR on the radio? Maybe put on some vinyl?
K
-Boston Craig's List
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Craig's List Fun #2
Painting & Friendship
"A woman - artist in her late 30 ties has a painting of red rock mountains that needs to be finished.
I sketched it in pencil and just can't find the right colors or technique to finish it up.
I thought if there is someone out there (who has paint and is looking for new friends) wants to keep me company and help me finish it up, sort of guide me how to use the paint. I usually work with acrylics, but if you don't work from a sketch I'd be willing to see how you create it using other techniques.
I offer no money, just looking to find a like minded person who enjoys painting and doesn't mind to help out.
A photo of you would be much appreciated :)" -Boston Craig's List
"A woman - artist in her late 30 ties has a painting of red rock mountains that needs to be finished.
I sketched it in pencil and just can't find the right colors or technique to finish it up.
I thought if there is someone out there (who has paint and is looking for new friends) wants to keep me company and help me finish it up, sort of guide me how to use the paint. I usually work with acrylics, but if you don't work from a sketch I'd be willing to see how you create it using other techniques.
I offer no money, just looking to find a like minded person who enjoys painting and doesn't mind to help out.
A photo of you would be much appreciated :)" -Boston Craig's List
The Dreaded Reference Letter
Is it possible in our social networking world to submit a reference to an art residency program that is from a colleague that is only known through internet interaction? More and more people are only known to each other cyberly (?) and have only viewed each other's work in jpeg form. Food for thought.
We Do Love A Good Apocalypse
Harold Camping
The 89-year-old now says the real Day of Judgment will occur on Oct. 21 and that his claims that the Apocalypse was last Saturday were a misunderstanding.
"We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," the one-time civil engineer said at the Oakland headquarters of his Family Radio network.
Camping, who stated unequivocally for months that May 21 would be the end of the world, now claims it was just the day when God decided humanity's fate. But it won't be until Oct. 21 that we are sentenced.
"God again brought Judgment on the world," the prognosticating pulpiter said during a 90-minute speech aired on his radio stations and online.
As a result, humanity now has five months before "the whole world will be destroyed." More here.
4 Colors I Can't Live Without
Blockx Ultramarine Violet
Gamblin Alizarin Crimson
Williamsburg Lemon Ochre
Winsor & Newton Phthalo Turquoise
Gamblin Alizarin Crimson
Williamsburg Lemon Ochre
Winsor & Newton Phthalo Turquoise
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Eternal Question-more so today then ever
I found this watercolor on Craig's list. Is it possible to say this work is not very good? What if it were hanging on a wall in the Gagosian Gallery with 30 other like size pieces in the same style? Maybe with a pile of stuff on the floor in front of it? The other day I was reading a survey of various art philosophies and one caught my eye as the prevailing view of the art elite. Art is an artifact made to be viewed in an artworld context by an educated art audience. Though this thinking is self-defining, hopelessly circular, it seems to be accurate. In the right context this watercolor would be in the Saatchi Collection. Does any one believe anymore that there is something intrinsic, essential, almost transcendent, in a work of art? Is it all just completely relative? I do believe thousands of words could be deployed in justification of this painting as "Art". Too much art today requires extraneous explanation to be considered existentially valid, a thing in itself.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
My Palette Woes
Every once in a while I clear off my entire paint table, moving the tubes to a side table and throwing out the old brushes and paint thinner jars. Immediately I feel a certian Agoraphobia and quickly find myself reconfined to my tiny little mixing area. This must mean something.
Friday, May 13, 2011
How I Pine for Existentialism
The above introduction was written by Peter Selz for this 1959 MOMA exhibition. Unfortunately any portrayal of angst today must be either taken as irony or kitsch. Can you imagine anyone taking "The Scream" seriously if painted today? Whatever happened to alienation? I have posted below the list of artist in the show. Please note how some artist have completely disappeared from art historical consciousness.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Artists I Wish I Looked Like #11
W.H. Auden with "Pangur"
If you "enjoy" cats then take a look over at Weimar and see a wonderful presentation of authors and their cats. Here are a few more.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline with "Mea Culpa"
George Bernard Shaw with "Pygmalion"
Monday, May 9, 2011
Artists I Wish I looked like #10
Gustav Klimt
I already look a lot like Klimt but it is the robes I am looking to emulate!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Rare Gauguin
This Gauguin bust has not been seen in public since 1961. All in all a bargain was had at auction for $11.3 million.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Final in the Bookcase Series
All of these bookcases are in my home as opposed to my studio. The above shelves contain mostly history books and literature with a smattering of garden books.
The above shelves, and those that follow, contain books that are newly acquired, being read, or that I plan to read in the near future. The interesting thing about the above bookcase is that my wife thinks it is "fair" that she should get the top two shelves for her tennis equipment even though I have a grave need for more space.
I love book piles!! There are still another six bookcases plus shelves of DVDs that I am not showing because enough is enough!
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