Portrait of the artist trading a painting for an MRI brain scan...I think my brain is very similar to a crazy person--I compared it MRI's of crazy people on the net. maybe I am just paranoid...copyright NYPOST
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
mysteries of the universe
Mysteries Alex is pondering today:
Gnomic spirals and Fibonacci's numbers as they relate to nautilus shells and the golden section.
The geometry of the school of athens
The effect of sunspots on climate
Why they sell used socks on ebay.
Gnomic spirals and Fibonacci's numbers as they relate to nautilus shells and the golden section.
The geometry of the school of athens
The effect of sunspots on climate
Why they sell used socks on ebay.
words of the day---N.Peart
Grim-faced and forbidding,
Their faces closed tight,
An angular mass of new yorkers
Pacing in rhythm,
Race the oncoming night,
They chase through the streets of manhattan.
Headfirst humanity,
Pause at a light,
Then flow through the streets of the city.
They seem oblivious
To a soft spring rain,
Like an english rain
So light, yet endless
From a leaden sky.
The buildings are lost in the limitless rise.
My feet catch the pulse and the purposeful stride.
I feel the sense of possibilities,
I feel the wrench of hard realities.
The focus is sharp in the city.
Wide-angle watcher
On lifes ancient tales,
Steeped in the history of london.
Mist in the streets of westminster.
Wistful and weathered,
The pride still prevails,
Alive in the streets of the city.
Are they oblivious
To this quality?
A quality
Of light unique to
Every citys streets.
Pavements may teem with intense energy,
But the city is calm in this violent sea.
Their faces closed tight,
An angular mass of new yorkers
Pacing in rhythm,
Race the oncoming night,
They chase through the streets of manhattan.
Headfirst humanity,
Pause at a light,
Then flow through the streets of the city.
They seem oblivious
To a soft spring rain,
Like an english rain
So light, yet endless
From a leaden sky.
The buildings are lost in the limitless rise.
My feet catch the pulse and the purposeful stride.
I feel the sense of possibilities,
I feel the wrench of hard realities.
The focus is sharp in the city.
Wide-angle watcher
On lifes ancient tales,
Steeped in the history of london.
Mist in the streets of westminster.
Wistful and weathered,
The pride still prevails,
Alive in the streets of the city.
Are they oblivious
To this quality?
A quality
Of light unique to
Every citys streets.
Pavements may teem with intense energy,
But the city is calm in this violent sea.
School Of Athens
I am about to embark on a deep and detailed study and dissection of Raphael's School of Athens. I want to figure out the secrets behind the geometry and his grouping of figures. In the old master works (unlike modern art) nothing is haphazard..everything is placed according to geometry and accordance with natural and universal laws--thinks alex.
goyas black paintings
In the end of goyas life he became a recluse and painted very dark macabre paintings on the walls of his home--come to think of it this doesn't sound to far away from me (except I paint on paper and canvas.) I found a schemetic of where he put the actual murals in his house--very cool! SMELLS LIKE GENIUS
orwell diary--oct 16th 1938
16.10.38, Villa Simont, route de Casablanca
October 16, 2008 by orwelldiariesYesterday intolerably hot. In the evening thunderstorms & torrential rain, flooding the ground some inches deep.
This morning a disaster. One hen dead, another evidently dying. Forget the name of the disease, which has something to do with the throat. The hen is unable to stand & head droops forward. The dead one had evidently perched for the night & then fallen off the perch. May have something to do with perching in the rain, as they all did so, though I put up another perch for them under cover.
Goats a little tamer. The wife of the Arab who works in the orange plantation & looks after the sheep says that the brown goat is in kid.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
It is an odd life to know someone for many many months via emails and phone and sell them art and never meet them. I love to meet my "collectors and patrons" Here is one of my favorites--- -Her name is Amy (center) and daughter Cyd--- she has great taste in art and is a lot of fun and an equally nice person..her friends were a riot and we all went to a great restaurant called buddakan in NYC. It is good for a hermit like myself to get out once in a while and to actually speak to other humans and see what color the sky is and get away from my easel. I think she has run out of wall space for my art but I am trying to convince her the value of hanging art from the ceiling as well.colors of the moon
ORANGE SEAS: The Moon is more than just shades of gray. Lunar seas are suffused with blue, purple, orange and other colors--you just can't see them at first glance. Last night, Catalin Timosca of Turda, Romania, took a picture that revealed the hidden palette of the Hunter's Moon:
The colors are real. Blue hues reveal titanium-rich areas while orange and purple colors show regions that are low on iron.
I love outer space--wish I could live there, many people say I already do.
on style
I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . . Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way. Jeet Kune-Do is simply the direct expression of one's feelings with the minimum of movements and energy. The closer to the true way of Kung Fu, the less wastage of expression there is. Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.
– Bruce Leequotes of the day
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Salvador Dali
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali
Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dali
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Salvador Dali
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Salvador Dali
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Salvador Dali
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali
Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dali
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Salvador Dali
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Salvador Dali
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador Dali
shaolin kung fu
Today I start Shaolin kung fu lessons. I will be studying with a real shaolin monk and I am very excited for the physical and especially the spiritual aspect..I made the decision after I read a quote by Bruce Lee in which he called his martial art style "style without style" that hit me like a brick and opened my eyes in my questions concerning my "style" in my art. I have no idea what my style is or if I even have one and I am surprised when people tell me it looks like a Gardega--- style without style, that is my style. I went to doctor today and I am perfect health. I am not sure what a shrink would say but that is another matter.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Ten Dollar Art
Alex is gearing up for another ten dollar art show..This one is to show the appreciation I have for my collectors and friends. I am very busy with commissions but I will make it all happen and I am lining up a venue in NYC so we can all hang out commune with bacchus and talk about things to come.
framed
I found these pictures tonight. A collector of my work sent me these photos a while back (don?) . There are few things that make me happier than to know that somebody likes my work enough to buy it and frame it and hang in there house. If you hang art in your house you live with it everyday and have a relationship with that art. It becomes part of your life. The top left piece is a butterfly painting I like but dont love, next is my underground sun painting which I like because when you photograph it the gold leaf sun reflects light back at camera. Next is my self portrait brooding as a teenager--one day that will be valuable. Next is my ophelia print of my glass art. And last is another teen portrait..the weird thing is if I look at an old self portrait it is like I remember the exact moment I made it and how I felt...Most of my art brings me back to a moment--good or bad.
lyrics of the day--yes
We hit the blue fields
In the blue sedan we didn't get much further
Just as the sun was rising in the mist
We were all alone we didn't need much more
So fast this expidition
So vast this heavy load
With a touch of luck and a sense of need
Seeing the guns and their faces
We look around the open shore
Waiting for something
Shoot high break low
Aim high shoot low
Break high let go
Shoot high aim low
This was to be our last ride
With the steel guitar and the love you give me
Underneath the skin a feeling, a breakdown
Well we sat for hours on the crimson sand
Exchanges in the currency of humans bought and sold
And the leaders seem to lose control
Shall we lose ourselves for a reason
Shall we burn ourselves for the answer
Have we found the place that we're looking for
Someone shouted "open the door"
Lookout
Shoot high break low
Aim high shoot low
Feeling of imagination
Break high let go
Shoot high aim low
Shoot high aim low
Nothing you can say
Shoot high let go
Takes me by surprise
Shoot high aim low
Who says's there's got to be a reason
Shoot high let go
Who says there's got to be an answer
We were all alone, we didn't need much more
Shoot high aim low
The sun's so hard on this endless highway
Shoot high let go
Shoot high aim low
I've heard the singers, who sing of love
Shoot high let go
In the blue sedan we never got much further
Shoot high aim low
In the blue sedan we didn't get much further
Just as the sun was rising in the mist
We were all alone we didn't need much more
So fast this expidition
So vast this heavy load
With a touch of luck and a sense of need
Seeing the guns and their faces
We look around the open shore
Waiting for something
Shoot high break low
Aim high shoot low
Break high let go
Shoot high aim low
This was to be our last ride
With the steel guitar and the love you give me
Underneath the skin a feeling, a breakdown
Well we sat for hours on the crimson sand
Exchanges in the currency of humans bought and sold
And the leaders seem to lose control
Shall we lose ourselves for a reason
Shall we burn ourselves for the answer
Have we found the place that we're looking for
Someone shouted "open the door"
Lookout
Shoot high break low
Aim high shoot low
Feeling of imagination
Break high let go
Shoot high aim low
Shoot high aim low
Nothing you can say
Shoot high let go
Takes me by surprise
Shoot high aim low
Who says's there's got to be a reason
Shoot high let go
Who says there's got to be an answer
We were all alone, we didn't need much more
Shoot high aim low
The sun's so hard on this endless highway
Shoot high let go
Shoot high aim low
I've heard the singers, who sing of love
Shoot high let go
In the blue sedan we never got much further
Shoot high aim low
inspiration
I have probably made three hundred works of art based on this song. I am not sure why but this song takes my brain into another realm (which is what art is supposed to do) I guess it has a little 80's in it but there is also some transcendence in it for me when I paint. . I think it has a sense of finality and also a sense of hope... I am not talking about the video--only the song.
WE HIT THE BLUE FIELDS
WE HIT THE BLUE FIELDS
I have no use for mcain or obama. nothing will change and nothing will get better. I wished I was one of those people who had hope for our system and think that one man will make it better. If you are electing puppets it makes no difference if it is a red puppet or a blue puppet. I thought this video was funny as I enjoy making fun of both sides...
2000th post
Not sure what it means but I have posted over two thousand items since I started this...here is a sneak peek at an illustration I finished last night. I cant show whole thing until published...the funny thing about this assignment is that the story called for the exact same thing I have been painting for the last year in my strange world series...today I have to tweak my yellow page cover and finish that job.
Monday, October 13, 2008
books!
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/bittersweet-art-of-cutting-up-books.html
great link to the art of cutting up books.
great link to the art of cutting up books.
quote of the day
Art is kind of like synchronized swimming except there is no water and you are alone.---alex
illustrations almost done! post tonight .
illustrations almost done! post tonight .
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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