Rainer Fetting im Atelier

SAUL LEITER

Saul Leiter Harlem 1960

Saul Leiter Taxi 1957

Saul Leiter Haircut 1956

More Saul Leiter photographs here.

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.

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?

Goodbye Mr. Freud

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.

In Freud's Studio

Who Were the Savages?

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.

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.