Art and Life

Papa Tango · Dec 21, 2024

Untitled Manifested=Clark Realized
Fujifilm "XT5 Predator"; TAMRON 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD

So really, how often is it that one sees a person appearing to have stepped out of a painting? Is it synchronicity, a 'Bresson Moment', or something else? Don't know, but here at the Met I was certainly in the right gallery room...

The art is by Ed Clark, and was completed in 1966. It is an untitled work, and I do not even want to know what Lila Acheson Wallace paid for it at Christies...

Clark was a Black abstract impressionist, and was influential in the late modernist movement. You may remember him as the guy that shoved paint about on canvas with a push broom, and then sold them for millions. Nice work if you can find it.

And to be perfectly clear, this image is real and not an AI illustration.

Jon Eckman · Dec 30, 2024

All in one.

Papa Tango · Tuesday at 11:18 AM

Polly Wolly Doodled
Fujifilm X-T5; FUJINON 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR

Same day, same museum. Sort of makes one wonder, yes? If one is a regular museum shooter, then one knows that this sort of serendipity between the object and the observer is not that uncommon. The scribbles on the right are the work of Cy Twombly, a somewhat famous artistic scribbler. I literally have dozens of legal pads filled with this stuff, but no one takes any interest at all. From my working distance I could not tell whether she was covered with real tattoos, or this was the infamous "sharpy" look my 19 year old grandchild was sporting around the city.

The work is 'Dutch Interior', and was made in 1962. The more interesting thing to me is that I find I prefer the people looking at modern artworks to the artworks themselves. At least I can discern something real and authentic about them...

Mark Keefer · Wednesday at 10:47 AM

Papa Tango said:
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Polly Wolly Doodled
Fujifilm X-T5; FUJINON 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR

Same day, same museum. Sort of makes one wonder, yes? If one is a regular museum shooter, then one knows that this sort of serendipity between the object and the observer is not that uncommon. The scribbles on the right are the work of Cy Twombly, a somewhat famous artistic scribbler. I literally have dozens of legal pads filled with this stuff, but no one takes any interest at all. From my working distance I could not tell whether she was covered with real tattoos, or this was the infamous "sharpy" look my 19 year old grandchild was sporting around the city.

The work is 'Dutch Interior', and was made in 1962. The more interesting thing to me is that I find I prefer the people looking at modern artworks to the artworks themselves. At least I can discern something real and authentic about them...

In 1962 as a 3-4 year old artist I did a similar piece of art with crayon inside the lid of my mom's wooden phonograph cabinet. She was not impressed, more a bit angry. Misunderstood artists.