Month: June 2006
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H.o.p. at the Window, 2004 (digital painting)
H.o.p. at the Window – 2004 2006 20 w by 15 in h Digital Painting based on photo by artist copyright J Kearns 2006 H.o.p. at the window a couple of years ago. Took me two years to decide whether or not to leave the dirt on the window and how light to go with…
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One's "inferiors"
As I noted in a post below, what particularly rubbed me the wrong way about how the children were used in Jill Greenberg’s art was denying the reality of their emotions in order to provoke a certain feeling in adults. Denying the reality of their emotions, reforming them into allegory, and saying this had no…
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Link to more commentary on Jill Greenberg's "End Times"
Stone Bridge has written a post Jill Greenberg and the boundaries of art, expanding and digressing on a comment that he’d made here. It’s interesting that the apologiae for Greenberg in the comments to Hawk’s original post all resort implicitly to the the romantic cult of the artist as Nietzschean ubermensch. Strange that this (you’d…
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Presuming to judge another artist's ethics can be risky, but here goes…
Presuming to judge another artist’s ethics can be risky, but here goes. Boingboing points to this blog post of Thomas Hawk, photographers’ rights activist, in which he writes on the photography of Jill Greenberg. In specific, her photos of children crying. Seems she admits that she manipulates the children into crying, doing things such as…
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Isis (digital painting)
Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child, what drives me to you is what drives me insane Isis (Spaghetti Junction Isis) 2006 20 w by 9 in h Digital Painting based on photo by artist/collage copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement The painting is based on a photo first seen in my scary Halloween post used…
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Phoenix Palms 2005 (digital painting)
Phoenix Palms, 2005 2006 20 w by 13 in h Digital Painting based on photo by artist copyright J Kearns 2006 Enlargement Went for an old postcard colors look with this one. My computer is still screwing up and scratched this image for me once. I’d saved it and when I opened it the next…
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Domo-kun vs. Karen. Domo wins.
Japanese national public television gave the Japanese Domo-kun in gratitude for their contributions. I can’t locate a pic of her right now, but Georgia Public Broadcasting most frequently gives us someone named Karen thanking us during the telethons and cheering us on to give and give more. Karen is fuzzy in a Southern drawl, hairspray…
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In the Sculpture Garden – Taliesin West (digital painting)
In the Sculpture Garden – Taliesin West, 2005 2006 20 w by 15 in h Digital Painting based on photo by artist copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement Detail. [clear] When the tour guide was showing us around, I was thinking I wanted to do a painting of her as tour guide going through her…
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Georgie (uninvited guest blogging)
Georgie may not look large to you, but when I saw Georgie skitter across the floor away from me, I screamed. She looks a very respectable size in person. She (or he) is trapped here underneath a large mouthed vase. Update: It occurs to me that Georgie’s big enough that I could paint a smiley…