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
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
SAUL LEITER
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| Saul Leiter Harlem 1960 |
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| Saul Leiter Taxi 1957 |
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| Saul Leiter Haircut 1956 |
More Saul Leiter photographs here.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
One Dot
I wish to be neither here nor there,
nor anywhere in between,
but rather to say,
I prefer not.
I long to be before here and there,
in the bosom of the one dot,
but explode we must,
as stars we are made.
nor anywhere in between,
but rather to say,
I prefer not.
I long to be before here and there,
in the bosom of the one dot,
but explode we must,
as stars we are made.
Does anyone know??
I remember reading a great quote by Sean Scully about the preponderance of art trying to use the social sciences. He declared that most of this work was neither science nor art. Does anyone know the source of this insight?
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Goodbye Mr. Freud
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| Leigh Bowery by Lucien Freud |
I did not realize until today that Lucien Freud died this past July. There is no other artist alive who can replace him. No joke! When you would have thought there was nothing left to say about realist painting along came Lucien. He manages to make you not only see but feel the human figure. Most figurative art is a simulation but with Freud the flesh is real like a communion wafer.
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| In Freud's Studio |
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Who Were the Savages?
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| Mark Warren "Savage (The Death of King Philip) 2011 40" X 48" oil on linen |
This is a slightly older piece from the beginning of 2011. It is the last work I will be able to post until I can borrow another camera.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Poem
3:45 AM
How could you know anything
if everything you knew
was known?
To know everything
would be to know nothing.
Where is life?
To know love and death
and everything between
would be no knowledge at all.
How could you know anything
if everything you knew
was known?
To know everything
would be to know nothing.
Where is life?
To know love and death
and everything between
would be no knowledge at all.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Someone Borrowed A Camera
Mark Warren "Billy Budd" 2011 40" X 48" oil on linen
Mark Warren "An Idealist" 40" X 48" oil on linen
Sunday, August 14, 2011
More New Work
Mark Warren "Plagues and Resurrections" 48" X 58" oil on linen
Mark Warren "The Day I Died" 48" X 58" oil on linen
New Work
I had a major computer crash where all my data was lost and windows 7 disappeared! But I am back...if anyone is still out there? This is a painting from the last month and you can see my work is getting more abstract though I will never lose contact with the human body. One thing I will say is those little amoeba like things are an artistic rendering of smallpox.
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