By Jack Brummet
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Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Monday, December 09, 2013
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Pablo Picasso's Painting Authentication
By Jack Brummet, Visual Arts Ed.
I heard a good story about Pablo Picasso on the radio today. When an unsigned painting appeared, and resembled his style, Picasso was asked to authenticate and sign it. If he liked the painting, he would sign , whether it was his or not. I'm pretty sure there was a payment involved. I know he often left a quick drawing to cover a bar or restaurant tab. Some of those drawings are now worth more than the restaurant itself.
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I heard a good story about Pablo Picasso on the radio today. When an unsigned painting appeared, and resembled his style, Picasso was asked to authenticate and sign it. If he liked the painting, he would sign , whether it was his or not. I'm pretty sure there was a payment involved. I know he often left a quick drawing to cover a bar or restaurant tab. Some of those drawings are now worth more than the restaurant itself.
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Sunday, November 03, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Friday, September 06, 2013
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's Vertumnus (a 16th century Carmen Miranda)
By Jack Brummet, Painting Ed.
In this painting, The Holy Roman Emperor is painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons.
According to the Wikipedia, “Giuseppe Arcimboldo (c.1526–1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books”
Carmen Miranda has nothing on the Emperor. . .
In this painting, The Holy Roman Emperor is painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons.
According to the Wikipedia, “Giuseppe Arcimboldo (c.1526–1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books”
Carmen Miranda has nothing on the Emperor. . .
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's Vertumnus
Carmen Miranda
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
David Stevenson's amazing paintings
By Mona Goldwater, Seattle Metro Ed.
Jack's friend/former co-worker David Stevenson has an wonderful blog on blogspot. The blog is fine, but you're going to gaze at his stunning paintings. Go now; you will not regret this. Jack showed these paintings to me today. I am a convert! Click here to jump to some painting gorgeousity. . .
Jack's friend/former co-worker David Stevenson has an wonderful blog on blogspot. The blog is fine, but you're going to gaze at his stunning paintings. Go now; you will not regret this. Jack showed these paintings to me today. I am a convert! Click here to jump to some painting gorgeousity. . .
David Stevenson's Creamer And Figs - click to enlarge
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Sunday, July 07, 2013
Painting: Pond Life
By Jack Brummet
[Analog/Digital hybrid art; pen and ink drawing digitzed and colored in PaintShop Pro X4]
[Analog/Digital hybrid art; pen and ink drawing digitzed and colored in PaintShop Pro X4]
click to enlarge image
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Hammering Woman a/k/a Yael depicted in Bartolomeo Veneto's "Woman With A Hammer"
By Jack Brummet, Visual Arts Ed.
This fascinating painting is Woman with a Hammer by Bartolomeo Veneto, painted in roughly 1500. The painting depicts Yael from the Book of Judges. Yael killed Sisera to deliver Israel from King Jabin: “While he lay asleep Yael crept stealthily up to him, holding a tent peg and a mallet. She drove it through his temples with such force that it entered into the ground below.”
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Saturday, June 01, 2013
Stazzi paints with Tonia Calderon
By Jack Brummet, Art Ed.
I had to share this photo of a budding young artist. On the left is my great (some people believe the correct term is "grand") nephew Stazzi working with the artist Tonia Calderon [http://www.toniacalderon.com/#!/home] on a painting of Malcolm X. Is this cool, or what?
I had to share this photo of a budding young artist. On the left is my great (some people believe the correct term is "grand") nephew Stazzi working with the artist Tonia Calderon [http://www.toniacalderon.com/#!/home] on a painting of Malcolm X. Is this cool, or what?
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Three paintings by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
by Jack Brummet, Studio Arts Ed.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a painter (as we have also recently discovered about former President George W. Bush - click here to see his paintings).
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a painter (as we have also recently discovered about former President George W. Bush - click here to see his paintings).
Ike in the studio
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Friday, February 08, 2013
The paintings of Ex-President George W. Bush
By Jack Brummet, Painting and Drawings Editor
A hacker recently broke into some of the Bush family's email accounts. From GWB's sisters account, comes images of paintings that Dubyah has created... A report from The Smoking Gun is here.
For my part, the best revelations were of George W. Bush, the artist--one shows him naked in the shower, the other of his legs and feet in a bath, with the tap running. The Smoking Gun said that Dubyyah sent them to his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch. There was also a photograph showing him at his easel working.
The artist at work [Guccifer is the hacker who stole these photos]
A hacker recently broke into some of the Bush family's email accounts. From GWB's sisters account, comes images of paintings that Dubyah has created... A report from The Smoking Gun is here.
For my part, the best revelations were of George W. Bush, the artist--one shows him naked in the shower, the other of his legs and feet in a bath, with the tap running. The Smoking Gun said that Dubyyah sent them to his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch. There was also a photograph showing him at his easel working.
George W. Bush, self portrait in the shower
George W. Bush, self portrait in the bath
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Coulrophobia: [Don't] Send In The Clowns (warning: includes clown painting)
By Jack Brummet, Pop Culture Editor
On their radio show yesterday, Dave Ross & Luke Burbank discussed clowns going extinct. From my generation forward, people now perceive of clowns as being frightening rather than amusing or distracting. This may have something to do with both John Wayne Gacy and Stephen King's novel, and movie, "It." There have been more than a few scary clowns in movies over the last few years (like The Joker and his band in The Dark Knight, for example). Our parents loved Emmett Kelly and Red Skelton, and clown cars at the circus, but somewhere along the line our generation and the following ones no longer much cotton to the clowns.
This is a painting I bought at a thrift store fifteen years ago. It may be Emmett Kelly. . .
This is a painting I bought at a thrift store fifteen years ago. It may be Emmett Kelly. . .
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Cathie Joy Young paintings on "Portlandia"
One of our favorite artists, Cathie Joy Young, has a couple of her paintings appear in the background of Season Two, Episode Eight of "Portlandia." You can see a clip of the scenes with her work here.
You can find out more about CJY, and see more of her work, here, on her website. . . /jack
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Paint by number at Bumbershoot
By Jack Brummet
Visual Arts Editor
One of my favorite Bumbershoot art exhibits this year was "an interactive and fully immersive paint-by-number art" exhibit put together by two Seattle artists, Marlow Harris and JoDavid. The centerpiece of the exhibition was an interactive paint-by-number version of Manet's "The Picnic" by the artist Ryan Feddersen. Anyone who showed up could paint on the Manet homage. As it turned out, kids mainly worked on the lower part of the painting, and to paint the very top, you had to be fairly tall. By the time I stopped by, it was making great progress, and there was still ten hours of audience participation left to complete it. . .
Visual Arts Editor
One of my favorite Bumbershoot art exhibits this year was "an interactive and fully immersive paint-by-number art" exhibit put together by two Seattle artists, Marlow Harris and JoDavid. The centerpiece of the exhibition was an interactive paint-by-number version of Manet's "The Picnic" by the artist Ryan Feddersen. Anyone who showed up could paint on the Manet homage. As it turned out, kids mainly worked on the lower part of the painting, and to paint the very top, you had to be fairly tall. By the time I stopped by, it was making great progress, and there was still ten hours of audience participation left to complete it. . .
There were also "remixes" by various artists, who took paint by number kits and did not follow the instructions! There were paintings by Joey Bates, Greg Boudreau, Jim Blanchard, John Brophy, Chris Crites, Max David, Jim Dever, Janet Galore, Art Garcia, Kurt Geissel, Troy Gua, Nancy Guppy, Robert Hardgrave, Aaron Huffman, Sean Hurley, Mary Iverson, Elizabeth Jameson, David Kane, Rick Klu, Charles Krafft, Mike Leavitt, Rich Lehl, Kelly Lyles, Jeff Mihalyo, Ryan Molenkamp, Lisa Petrucci, Demi Raven, Cathy Sarkowsky, Tim Silbaugh, Joey Veltkamp, Jim Woodring, Jenny Zwick, and others.
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