This is a painting I painted on you tube. It was painted to the peter gabriel song "the family and the fishing net and that is the chosen title for the work as well. I am still figuring why I paint halo clouds. If you know what you are doing in art you are not making art--- you are baking bread and it will grow stale and crumble with time. this for sale on ebay
I was never a huge fan of seurat. I must admit that this painting is one of those that "sticks with you." He was interested in the idea of putting a bunch of colored dots together to reach a "purer" color effect. The sad thing is that the intended effect was a failure (I think he even admitted in the end.) I like the idea that he was using science a bit in his approach as most artist brains have as much use for science as a slug has for a salt shaker. I guess this artist most be at least nodded to for his place in art history and for this painting as well. I much prefer the carefully laid dots to the swine and swill of abstract impressionism. Anyone who does something totally different is sometimes to be admired as well. He is labeled a neo-impressionist in the world of art-speak.During the 19th century, scientist-writers such as Michel Eugène Chevreul, Nicholas Ogden Rood and David Sutter wrote treatises on color, optical effects and perception. They were able to translate the scientific research of Helmholtz and Newton into a written form that was understandable by non-scientists. Chevreul was perhaps the most important influence on artists at the time; his great contribution was producing the color wheel of primary and intermediary hues.
here is some wikipedia info as well.--
Chevreul was a French chemist who restored old tapestries. During his restorations of tapestries he noticed that the only way to restore a section properly was to take into account the influence of the colors around the missing wool; he could not produce the right hue unless he recognized the surrounding dyes. Chevreul discovered that two colors juxtaposed, slightly overlapping or very close together, would have the effect of another color when seen from a distance. The discovery of this phenomenon became the basis for the Pointillist technique of the Neoimpressionist painters.
Someone bought my swamp angel yesterday. I think I am sadder to see her go than I was the relationship with the person I made the piece about.
This is my favorite album of all time. It is a peter gabriel sound track to the movie "the last temptation." I have gone through about 6 copies of this album. The only you tube I could find of it was of some figure skaters---This is a great song from the album..
Peanuts anyone?
George Washington Carver
Did a report on him in school what seems like a million years ago
Gene Torpey
explained and for sale in my ebay store (click link below my mug shot to right)
Here is my geometric study of Leonardo's Last supper. I used this to figure out how he grouped his figures together in four sets of three. I also based my Fox News last supper on similar geometry. You can see my fox news painting in my ebay store ( click link below my photo)
If you would like to learn about the symbol Ouroboros you can click on link:
I have some new viewers so I thought I would put up some work that exemplifies certain "periods or phases" of my work. Here is a sample from my "strange world" series. I have determined the strange world is all about transformation from the old, the comfortable, into a new and unknown internal horizon. If you are not busy being born--- you are busy dying and birth is often our first "trauma." The halo clouds are either the religious halo or the mythical Ouroboros, I am not sure. I would like to write a story about a huge halo cloud that forms over the world and remains both night and day and how humans react to it. This one is for sale for 75.00 I am trying to put less work on ebay as it becomes a pain in the neck after a while.
Reverse painting on glass became popular in Federal America and was practiced mainly by foreign-born artists in Boston, Salem, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. For example, "Walker and Chandless, Painters, in General, from Dublin and London," advertised "Painting on Glass and Transparent Painting" in the Maryland Gazette in 1790. Such paintings, with subjects ranging from flowers and geometric designs to allegory, mythology, and scenic views, were usually incorporated into mirrors, clocks, and other furniture. Ten reverse-painted glass panels, varied in size and shape, can be seen on a neo-classical sideboard in the collection of the Department of American Decorative Arts (Figure 1) that had been commissioned by General David Van Ness (1743–1818) for his Maizefield estate in Dutchess County, New York. Major elements of the designs used on these panels, including urns, cupids, foliage, lyres, and masks, were derived from plates in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, first published in London in 1791. In an accompanying text Sheraton wrote: "These may be painted, inlaid, or gilt in gold behind glass, and the glass being then beded [sic] in the pilaster, it is secure, and has a good effect."
At the end of the eighteenth century, domestic glass manufactories in several major commercial centers were competing with imported crown and cylinder glass from England, and as such the origin of the panes used on the Van Ness sideboard cannot be assumed. Samples from two panels were analyzed using energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) and both were found to be potash-lime glass with a ratio of potassium to calcium of approximately two to one, containing only relatively small amounts of sodium, magnesium, and aluminum. These results may point to a domestic source, as glass with very similar composition is known to have been made by at least one eighteenth-century American producer, the New Bremen Glassmanufactory in Maryland.
Well-executed reverse-glass paintings do not reveal the complexity of their manufacture. Since the designs are applied to the back of glass panes they must be built up in reverse—starting with the foreground and working "backwards"—which makes corrections virtually impossible. The technique used for the glass panels on the Van Ness sideboard is called metal-foil engraving, although in technical and art historical literature it is often referred to as verre églomisé. Gold leaf was applied to the back of the glass with a size such as clarified egg white, gelatin, or gum, and then engraved with a stylus of metal, wood, or bone. The design was completed by applying a colored background with paint (Figure 2).
Here is a glass carving I made last year. It is 21 inches by 30 inches. It is titled Monika (swamp angel) I call this style "punk nouveau." It is inspired by steuben and also by gardega. I am trying to get rid of much art before I move. this is for sale. it is a nice detailed piece but I am done with the relationship to both the woman and the piece so it is always best to move forward and turn your collar to the cold and damp as your eyes are stabbed by a flash of neon light.
Here is a painting for the Nassau yellow pages cover. I will give Long Island credit for one thing and that is nice beaches. This is roughly 15 x20 and for sale. I will include a signed/ printed book cover as well.
Here is the original painting that graced the cover of Manhattan ambassador yellow pages 2007-2008. I will include the original printed cover with the piece if purchased.
I read about a Zurich museum robbery this morning in which some valuable paintings were stolen. I began to think about the idea of the value of art and how relative it really is. Art is worth what people will pay for it. I wonder if they will one day have computer that will scan subjective items like art and make a value judgment of it. A lot of art has to do with the "back story" if you never heard of picasso and his legend would you stare at his paintings if they were in some antique shop or would you take out the painting and use the frame for something else? much like quantum physics, half the experience of art lies in the beholder. As the legend of Gardega grows and my bones are interred (along with my good), perhaps one day my paintings and art will be something that people will want to steal. Although I did have two glass art pieces stolen from a NYC night club....
John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred "Freddie" Lennon, during the course of a German air raid in World War II.[1][2][3] He was named after his paternal grandfather, John 'Jack' Lennon, and Winston Churchill.[3]
Freddie was a merchant seaman during World War II, thus was often away from home, but sent regular pay cheques to Julia, who was living with Lennon in 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool, although the cheques stopped when Freddie went AWOL.[4][5] When Freddie eventually came home in 1944, he offered to look after Julia and Lennon, but Julia rejected him.[6] After considerable pressure from her sister, Mary "Mimi" Smith—who contacted Liverpool's Social Services—Julia handed the care of Lennon over to Mimi.[7] In July 1946, Freddie visited Mimi and took Lennon to Blackpool, secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him.[8] Julia followed them, but after a heated argument Freddie made the five-year-old Lennon choose between Julia or him. Lennon chose Freddie (twice). As Julia walked away, Lennon began to cry and followed her. Freddie then lost contact with the family until Beatlemania, when father and son met again.[9]
