painting
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
SPREAD the WORD of this blog to your artist friends and assorted rats , finks , and canaries . We will get more commenters if more people know about it. P e o p l e A r e L o o k i n g .
How's My Dealing?
paintings + drawings
A focused consumer and avid collector, Timothy Buckwalter uses his vast knowledge of American culture and music as starting points for his work. Images from magazines, cartoons and films and lines from contemporary songs and novels are blended together to form Buckwalter's work, creating objects that explore the enormous expanses and intimate crevices of male identity. Believing that no commercial work is outside the reach of artistic reclamation, Buckwalter forages around the ever-expanding internet as well as his personal library of books and periodicals – repositories of shared cultural memories and buried utopian futures – to create narratives of how contemporary Western man administers his anxieties, desires, anger, joys and fears. Buckwalter’s paintings and sculptures are often built of several inter-related components, either images or objects, in an attempt to create a less ambiguous story and as a way of connecting the dots of our recent past.
NOTE: read that title again !! this is all about a war between the classes – the haves and have-nots !! not a war between the USA and anybody else. ok, got that ? though there seems to be some kind of referencing to the ‘red commies’ – so, I’m gonna ask him about that – to-nite !! yeah, we know we are a war-like country. we’re also a war-like peoples !!
artloversnewyork.com - Insider Report: NYC Art World
‘I am the greatest painter of the kind of paintings I like to paint,’ Jose Maria Renteria said with typical bravado in the summer of 1916. Although it caused a stir across Europe at the time, that claim was never more true than in the middle 1970s, when the master was working primarily in the medium of uncooked fish and Fonzie stickers. When Renteria died in Provence in 1978, he left 34 heirs spread among 11 wives and almost 90 mistresses. A devout Communist for most of his life (until 1974, when he joined the board of Monsanto Corporation), the prolific Renteria never allowed a single painting to be sold during his lifetime and so left his loved ones penniless—penniless, that is, except for his work, worth a fortune on the international auction market once Renteria was dead and unable to threaten his children with lighted matches and tequila. Enter the French government, according to whose calculations the suddenly marketable Renteria estate owed over seven billion francs in taxes.
The Morning News - Bienvenue au Musée Renteria by Kevin Guilfoil
Creative Capital Foundation
One part cultural investor, one part groundbreaking experiment, Creative Capital blends traditional philanthropy with venture capital concepts. Get to know us and learn how you can become a part of our future.
