spence munsinger
artist & painter
I was searching for something about color and I ran across a statement in a forum, something like “if you want to see how to paints trees find a book by Wolf Kahn”. Further down in that newsgroup, someone else agreed that the was the path to follow. I wasn’t researching trees, but I [...]
I found an amazing a series of paintings by Tom Wesselmann I find just bloody fascinating. They take a photographic cropping viewpoint, a bit of silhouette, a concept of space and make an image that is erotic and subtle. It’s like if Matisse cut out body shapes as the frames for [...]
DeviantArt gallery is a love-hate thing for me. Which, actually, considering the site, is exactly appropriate. At least as long as the emotions occur at the same time, are intense, are expressed in somewhat dark goth terms and you throw in a bit of anime and manga characterization. Or perhaps something like this: [...]
I seriously thought about naming this weblog “nude on a wet canvas”. Mostly for traffic purposes. And, I love painting women. Representations of women on canvas, anyway. One of the joys of revisiting human anatomy, even in just the skeleton, is to realize the visual cues that communicate female versus male form. The ribcage is [...]
I was re-creating linkage, and added several artists. Kimberly Brooks I’ve written of. Juan Francisco Casas I have not. One of the tests for me of great art, art that to me is great, is a test of time. Picasso said, roughly, if you want a painting to disappear, hang it on a wall. [1] My [...]
There is a weblogger I’ve been following. An artist. Her articles, interviews and postings are well worth finding and reading. There is a page, firstpersonartist.com, which lists and promotes the articles in and of themselves. Brooks’ personal site is www.kimberlybrooks.com. She is currently doing an exhibition titled “Technicolor Summer”. Lasts until 14th June. Worth seeing. [...]
