#0698 New York man
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Kept going with portraits. An all ink one using image from magazine.
Me
#0697 Walter
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I got into a portrait mood and needed someone to sketch. I look a bit severe, if I look like me at all, straight out of the mirror.
Kee Krasner, art talk.
First a sketch, then some art talk.
#0696 Lee Krasner
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This is from a self portrait. She looks young. I like Lee Krasner. She is of course well known and associated with Pollock, and I have a sense that they were together able to become as creative as they were. Relationships count. Unfortunately she is not as easy to spot around as Pollock. I hope I have bought out her strength in this sketch. I loved what I saw of her work at MoMA though. I have some shots I can add later.
I splashed out & bought a beautiful catalogue of a recent exhibition of her later work. I think it is about the best thing I bought on this trip. Found it in a secondhand book shop in Brooklyn.
More talk & Images follow.
Bryant Park 2
#0695 Bryant Park 2
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Bryant Park
#0694 Bryant Park
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I had inteded to go to the MoMA, on the free day, but the cue was too big for me, the place was to busy. I went to the NYPL the library instead. Wow, the center of the universe. A temple. Next to it is Bryant Park where I went when I got kicked out of the library at 6.00. Thunderstorm under one of these umbrellas. All went well & sketched and used the park’s wifi.
Trees
#693 Trees
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Still posting from San Francisco… Biked back from the Legion of Honour via the beach & the park. Fantastic views of trees silhouetted against the water… the quck sketch is all I have so far.
The Thinker
Thinker – from Rodin
#0691 Thinker
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Did this back in San Francisco – saw this at the Legion of Honour – another version as well.
Calligraphy 4
#0690 Calligraphy 4
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Calligraphy
#0689 Caligraphy
My friend Charles coined a phrase “Calligraphy of God”
the Renaissance notion of ‘reading nature as a book’ or what
one might term ‘meditation on the calligraphy of god’
He quotes Gyorgi Kepes to explain the idea.
Seen together, aerial maps of river estuaries and road systems,
feathers, fern leaves, branching blood vessels, nerve ganglia,
electron micrographs of crystals and the tree-like patterns of
electrical discharge-figures are connected, although they are
vastly different in place, origin, and scale. Their similarity of
form is by no means accidental.
He was reminded of this notion with some of my sketches, and asked for more in the style of “Drumbeat”, which is one of my favourites. (I have more in the style among the “Abstract” Category). At his request here are a few more.
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More thoughts on this follow, with quotes from Pollock, Kandinsky and Harold Rosenberg on Action Painting.