It’s getting awfully toasty here in the northeast USA. One antidote for me is to look at the cool colors in the works of one of my favorite American landscape painters – Neil Welliver (1929 -2005) who painted the Maine landscape near his home. He gets it right, this is just what Maine looks like.
RIP Cy Twombly (1928 – 2011), great Virginia-born abstract painter who lived in Italy since the 1950′s. I was going to do a separate post on Twombly, but i’m not sure how much enthusiasm there is here on the Spill for abstract painting. And i had no desire to attempt a post so early in the morning that would make me a candidate for Pseud’s Corner, so i’ll leave it to the experts. I never did see his retrospective in New York. I did see his painting “Autumn” in the Tate Modern and had to sit down, it knocked me flat from across the room and i couldn’t stop crying. His painting “Winter”, (3rd one down) is one of the best winter paintings i’ve ever seen, and sent me off the Guardian art forums for good when i couldn’t get it through to some people that no, a 10 year old couldn’t do it.
You can see obituaries and portfolios in the G here, and you can see a current show in London here:
Twombly and Poussin:
Arcadian Painters
Dulwich Picture Gallery,
London
SE21 7AD
Starts 29 June
Until 25 September
Amy – Interesting post. Thank you.
I think you might like my brother’s work…
http://www.joeladas.com/
Wow, those are absolutely gorgeous!!! Right up my alley.
Wow, I now covet a Joel Adas original! They are beautiful. Honestly, the steen family are almost nauseatingly talented…
Ha! Here’s one of MY brother’s paintings!
That’s gorgeous!! Does he have a website?
Yes
http://www.goatpix.com
All the people on it are him…however I just tried it and couldn’t get the ‘paintings’ bit to open in IE. It’s OK in Chrome though.
It opened in Firefox no problem. So he’s an artist / illustrator by profession then. Good for him!
Yep – has been since he left art school.
Wow, those Twomblys (Twomblies?) are lovely. Might pop down to Dulwich. It’s only a bus ride from me. I had it in my head you were in somewhere like Arizona, Amy. Dunno where I got that idea from!
Dunno either, i’m about as far away from there as you can get! I did visit Phoenix once for a weekend on the way from NYC to Calif, stayed with a friend from New York who had moved back to Ariz. as he was tired of trying to make it as an actor in NYC. I’m originally from New Jersey, but live in New England now. (northeast). And i hate hot weather. Don’t know how Shoey can live in Florida in the summer, it’s humid there too.
Glad you liked the Twomblys. Let us know how you like the show if you get there, seems like a kind of weird juxtoposition to me, but what do i know.
“I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.” Cy Twombly
Deep sigh; in another time I’d have been Poussin boots.
I’ll get me brush . . . .
I would have liked to have been Anthony Blunt – Poussin scholar and Keeper of the Queen’s Pictures. LeCarre and John Banville could write novels about me and my mates.
scratching my head now a bit that you’re thinking that i’m from somewhere like Arizona. If i come off as a racist gun-loving bible thumping right wingnut, don’t tell me because i don’t want to know.
I’m sure there are pockets of enlightenment in Arizona though, just as there are in Texas…
Of course there are, just like there are pockets of ignorance here in the northeast. I heartily disagreed with Arizona’s attempt to check the documentation of people because it was subjective and not universal, and because it would infringe on the rights of legal immigrants and citizens who may have happened to have brown skin or speak with an accent. If you’re going to to that, check everybody, not just “suspicious” persons. As it turns out, my own liberal state is doing roughly the same thing, and Arizona got a bit miffed because they think my state is getting away with it without getting the guff that they do.
Might pop down to Dulwich. It’s only a bus ride from me.
It’s official, you’re in the land where the Twomblys live . . . . . .
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
No, seriously this is already on my summer show list. I’ve been revisiting Mary Webb’s ‘Spring Of Joy’ in recent days and the Arcadian has been on my mind.
The Joy Of Music
Mary Webb! I love her. I used to live down the hill from where she used to live. (Only she was dead at the time.)
Me too! I’ve got all her books with theNorman Hepple and Rowland Hilder illustrations
I wish i could see it because i just can’t imagine them hung together. (cue puns)
I was at Regents Park Open Air Theatre for a performance of ‘The Beggar’s. Opera’ on Monday (lovely evening for once) and reminded of the origin of the expression ‘well hung’.
Oh! Jealous! Jealous! (re Mary Webb)
That first one reminded me of Peter Doig quite a lot, amy – do you know his stuff?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=peter+doig+paintings&hl=en&prmd=ivnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=uYkUTpuONsOYhQfU6dyTCw&ved=0CCYQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=923
No, i hadn’t until just now. Some lovely work. They do, a bit. Welliver did canoe paintings too -
http://www.askart.com/askart/artists/search/inquiry.aspx?artist=30139&ad=72188&searchtype=ART_FOR_SALE
The geometry of the trees in Welliver’s work reminds me a bit of Hockney’s landscapes too.
Ian Rankin plugs Scottish artists a lot in his books, and i try to check them out when i can. I’ll keep an eye out for Doig the next time i read one of his.
Deep sigh; in another time I’d have been his Deputy.
In another time I’d be Siobhan Clarke.
What? Not Vincent Van Gopher??
nah, i’m attached to my ear. and i like it that way.
Eh?
touche!
So much talent. Here’s Hockney’s Bigger Trees near Warter:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/23/hockney-tate-britain-trees
And Salt’s Mill:
http://www.bradburysgallery.co.uk/various/salts-mill-david-hockney-poster/
More Hockneys – if i can manage to get images into the comment like tfd did -
try again -
http://thespillblog.co.uk/2011/07/06/two-american-painters/woldgate-woods-45-6-december-2006/
http://thespillblog.co.uk/2011/07/06/two-american-painters/david_hockney_tree_painting/
http://thespillblog.co.uk/2011/07/06/two-american-painters/mrp_davidhockneytrees1/
http://thespillblog.co.uk/2011/07/06/two-american-painters/woldgatewoodsiii/
Tfd -
How did you get that image to post?
Using the magic Maki code – the image has to have a URL though. So I had to take a photo of that painting (which I own), upload it to Flickr, and then download it again to
pointy bracket img src url pointy bracket
There are no spaces except between img and src
I’m an idiot! I coded it in the first try with “img” but forgot the “src”. Which was genius on my part because i only code images into my websites like that almost every day.
Ah, pretty (& possibly safer than politics).
Definitely safer than politics. But almost anything is, except for maybe religion.
Hey Its awesome…. Looks really nice…