Picasso’s African mimicry mirrored the barbaric colonial sensibilities of the age of slavery. A modern art timeline amended to reflect the history colonisation.
War Economies II
How did we get here?
Distilled Life
“There are four elements that ultimately determine quality and meaning in painting. One, the color you choose and how much. Two, where you put it; three, in what manner. The fourth is outside you, and that is life.” -Larry Rivers.
“When you pick up one piece of dust, the entire world comes with it.” -Zen saying
A selection of still-life paintings, mostly contemporary.
“There are four elements that ultimately determine quality and meaning in painting. One, the color you choose and how much. Two, where you put it; three, in what manner. The fourth is outside you, and that is life.” -Larry Rivers.
There Will Be Blood
Gorgeous stills from TWBB
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
Year: 2007
“Ladies and gentlemen… if I say I’m an oil man you will agree.”
Fine Art Prints
We’ve begun to sell giclee fine art prints, made atheprinspace London, using the latest Epson pro inkjets and printing on Hahnemühle German Etching paper.
Buy prints here They look incredible..i would say that but they really do. Deep blacks and vibrant colours.
Prints from the Lab
Prints finally available, at least until we sober up. Pop culture/illo stuff here http://society6.com/ferozealam
Jonathan E and the impossibility of ever being satisfied.
This piece was revised and repainted countless times over the years.
Finished last night and I’m happy for now.
I have a tendency to return to lacklustre old work and try to make it better.
Sometimes that works, other times not.
It’s a war of attrition.
Nick Thorkelson, Jan. 27, 2015 at 7pm
The 112th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 7 pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. Please note 7 pm starting time.
Nick Thorkelson on Herbert Marcuse and Pedagogical Comics
Nick Thorkelson will talk about his projected book-length nonfiction comic on Marcuse, the German philosopher who was a mentor to the 1960s radical movements. The talk will also survey the field of pedagogical comics, from Rius and Rifas to Gonick and Sacco, and Nick’s contributions to that field which include The Underhanded History of the USA, The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism, Economic Meltdown Funnies, and short comics about Mr. Block, Kenneth Patchen, Yiddish poets, radical Christians, and the origins of modern jazz.
The Marcuse book situates Herbert Marcuse in the world of…
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Getting Things Done
CIA torture guide for kids.
Alam/Padam 