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My Dystopic Future

Mark Warren "My Great-Great Gran-daughter" 2012 48"X60" oil on linen

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring- Human Sacrafice

More New Stuff

Mark Warren "The Girl Whose Head Hurt II" 2012 48"X60" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Fruit" 2012 48"X60" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Trapped" 2012 48"X60" oil on linen

Our Times-new work

Mark Warren "Two Post-Modernists Discuss The Future Of The Rectangle" 2012 48"X60" oil on linen

Studio Visit with Jade Townsend & William Powhida

Here Is The Problem With Current "Art"

Found on Craig's List..... Hi, I'm an art student in Graduate school looking for adoptees and adoption parents who could talk about their adoption/adoption process. My project deals with how one identifies themselves (name, cultures, objects..), and i'll be doing both videos and recordings of the interviews. I'd like to do interviews in the next two weeks. If interested and would like to share your story please email me asap and I'll give you more details. Please put "Interview" in subject line so I know your not spam.

The Artist I wish I was

Just Sittin

Mark Warren "Sitting In My Garden (Be Happy With What You Are) 24" X 30" oil on linen

Louise Fishman at Cheim & Read, NYC (Sept. 2012)

It's Great Having My Own Camera

"The Man Who Could Hear The Stars Twinkle" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

"She is Not" 2012 24"X30" oil on linen

"The Boy Who Could See With His Heart" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Again Drawings

Mark Warren "The Acolyte" 2012 38"X50" charcoal on paper

Mark Warren "Generations" 2012 38"X50" charcoal, pastel & oil stick on paper

New Paintings

Mark Warren "Contagion (The Birth of Cotton Mather)" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Mark Warren "Hearing Pale Fire" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Mark Warren "Horror Vacui" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Drawing in the Backyard

More New Drawings

Mark Warren "The Boy Who Saw With His Heart" 2012 38"X50" charcoal & pastel on paper

Mark Warren "Attributes" 2012 38"X50" charcoal & pastel on paper

Mark Warren "The Man Who Kept On Dying" 2012 50"X38" charcoal & pastel on paper

New Drawings

More Coming Soon.

Mark Warren "The Girl with the Broken Head" 2012  38"X 50" charcoal, pastel & oil stick on paper

Mark Warren "Life Only" 2012  38"X50"  charcoal, pastel & oil stick on paper

Mark Warren "Be Mysterious" 2012 38"X50" charcoal,pastel & oil stick on paper

Frederick Hammersley - Never Let the Screen Door Slam 2010

Is This Truly The End of Western Culture?

Gorky's Granddaughter: Josh Criscione Nusbaum, July 2012

New Work

This painting and some of it's subsequent works involve a young woman I knew who died after a long battle with brain cancer. More new work is available at My Portfolio Site.

Mark Warren "The Girl Who's Head Hurt" 2012 48"X60" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Girl With Holes" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Mark Warren "Girl and Bull" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Mark Warren "Flickering" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

Mark Warren "BullGirl" 2012 30"X36" oil on canvas

The Professional Artist?

I have always winced when hearing about an artist's "practice" as if any meaningful modern artist was ever trained in the same way as a doctor or lawyer. There are thousands of Fine Arts degrees given out to what purpose I don't know. I recently read this interview with artist  Gary Petersen over at New York Arts Magazine:


AC: How do you perceive the significance of your (our) profession as painters?

GP:  Well, I don't like the word profession when it comes to being an artist. Semantics, I know, but I think it is misleading in a way. It conveys the idea that if we do things a certain way and train a certain way we will have a "job.” We will have a "profession.”  Show me the manual about how you have a "career" in the art world.

Appreciate Your Life

Rodney Dickson New Paintings at GASSER & GRUNERT

Gandy Brodie: Ten Tenements at STEVEN HARVEY FINE ART

Japanese-American Internment Color Photos

More here.

Alice Neel "Late Portraits & Still Lifes" at DAVID ZWIRNER

Whatever Happened To...?

Whatever happened to real criticism? People use to fight duels over divergent thoughts about art. Now it is just sales and everyone appreciates everyone else less they be shown to be a Philistine and no one stands up for culture, or meaning, or humanity fearful they will be labeled an old bitter SOB. 

With Nozkowski do We Think We See More Then There is?

Gorky's Granddaughter: Thomas Nozkowski, June 2012

Julian Jackson Crossing at KATHRYN MARKEL

No Boundries !!!

"he has left all his better works undone."

Simms: left all his better works undone

William Gilmore Simms knew he would die in 1870. "I am rapidly passing from a stage where you young men are to succeed me, doing what you can," he wrote to his friend Paul Hamilton Hayne two days into the new year. "My last days would be cheerless in the last degree but for numerous good friends, who will hardly allow me to suffer... but I am weary, Paul, and having much to say, I must say no more." Simms's health improved slightly in the coming months, but quickly reverted to the point where he was often bound to his couch and rarely left his home — sometimes for weeks at a time. Making matters worse, one of his final stories had been rejected by a magazine, which never returned his incomplete manuscript.

Simms rallied long enough in early May to offer a final public appearance, delivering an opening address for a flower show in his native Charleston. A month later, the poet/novelist/editor wrote his last letter to Hayne, noting his "long and exhausting malady" was overtaking him and that his illness had left him emaciated "to such diminutive proportions" that he would no longer be recognized by his friends. It was 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 11, 1870 that William Gilmore Simms died, likely from liver disease. Nine years later to the day, the people of Charleston unveiled a memorial to him. Simms had asked that his epitaph note that "he has left all his better works undone."

His "Sonnet—Resignation":

His eye was tearless, but his cheeks were wan;
There sorrow long had set her heavy hand;
Yet was his spirit noble, and a bland
And sweet expression o'er his features ran!
Care had not tutored him to sullenness—
The world's scorn not subdued the natural man:
The sweet milk of his nurture was not less,
Because the world had met him with its ban;
He is above revenges, though he drinks
The bitter draught of malice and of hate;
And still, though in the weary strife he sinks,
They can not make him murmur at his fate;
He suffers, and he feels the pang, but proves
The conqueror, though he falls, for still he lov

taken from The American Literary Blog.

Why I can Never Be A Successful Artist

WOW... There is money to be made,,did I see these in Target?

Faust and Other Tales The Paintings of Jan Müller at LORI BOOKSTEIN

An Homage to Crap on the Floor Art

Mark Warren "Fin de Siecle Art (Deflation)" 48" X 58" oil on linen

Adam & Eve?

Mark Warren "Pangaea" 2012 48" X 58" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Night Fishing (for Simon) 2012 48" X 58" oil on linen

Phoebe Hoban "Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty." Part 1 of 3

Alice Neel at David Zwirner, NYC (May 2012)

All You Really Need Is One Idea

Now I understand ??????

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (poetry reading)

"Dirge" by Kenneth Fearing (poetry reading)

"Acceptance," by Robert Frost

Visits to St Elizabeths: Elizabeth Bishop

Everyday is Philip Guston Day !!!

"Poetry" by Marianne Moore (poetry reading)

Muddying the Waters

This is a series of 8 paintings that I intend on extending to 16 or more. The series is entitled "Byzantium"; it's ironically (?) based on the poetry of W B Yeats. The overarching theme is the confrontation between a search for ideal form and the realty of the human condition. It's a debate that rarely ends in anything but skepticism and nihilism. Doubt is our dilemma and our destiny yet we live in a world that relishes aggressive certainty.... The muddying has to do with the range of styles that are incorporated; at least that's how I believe many will view it.

Mark Warren "Yeats" 24" X 30" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Science" 24" X 30" oil on linen

Mark Warren "13 Attributes"24" X 30" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Toward a Portrait of Primo Levi" 24" X 30" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Gyre" 24" X 30" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Heart of the Sea" 24" X 30" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Icarus (for John Walker" 24" X 30" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Susanna" 24" X 30" oil on linen

Big New Work Post!!

I finally have my own camera and look forward tp more frequent posting of new paintings.

Mark Warren "Reticence" 48" X 60" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Seeking and Shrieking" 48" X 58" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Dithyrambic Dialectic Man" 48" X 58" oil on linen

Mark Warren "Don't Become What You Hate" 48" X 58" oil on linen

I Love Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley, Cleophas, Master of the Gilda Gray, 1938-39, oil on board, 28 x 22 inches

 

 

 

 

My Tribute to The Man

Mark Warren "Marsden Hartley Happy" 2008? 48" X 58" oil on linen