Comments for Painting Perceptions

Comment on Visible Influence: Janet Niewald and Wilbur Niewald by Joseph Gallucci

Joseph Gallucci — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:52:16 +0000

In this whole blog ,two words were never mentioned planer geometry which was the Hallmark of Cezanne.I of Italian decent was never taught to tell myself stories which I liked to believe.It took my father 20 years to mention “joey got a little better”. Although Niewald’s show at the Studio School was great I still had the reproduction till recently..Queens College BA

Comment on Interview with Marie Riccio by Jeffrey Carr

Jeffrey Carr — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 06:00:01 +0000

Good painting talk. Great sense of scale and proportion: both in relative sizes of objects/shapes and in relative proportions of colors.

Comment on Interview with Laura Vahlberg by Jeffrey Carr

Jeffrey Carr — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:52:35 +0000

Good painting talk. And beautiful, subtle work. I like the lists. No talk about palettes, surfaces etc. No talk about drawing. But I like the emphasis on central points: enveloping atmosphere, working out from a neutral, alternating between quick paintings and longer, more thoughtful ones. Quiet, sincere practice.

Comment on Conversation with Lois Dodd by Will Rothfuss

Will Rothfuss — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:12:14 +0000

I’m very glad to have found your blog and this interview, even if I’m late to the party!

I’m happy to report that Lois is going strong at 96 or 97 ( not really sure of her birthday.) I went in to the city for her reception at Alexandre this January. She’s still painting, although it’s mostly inside, paintings of bits of bark and nature that her son brings her.

I have been lucky enough to have known Lois since she came out to paint at our farm for the first time in the 1980s. I see her over the winter every month or so, and in Maine when I can get up there. I spent a week taking a workshop with Elizabeth O’Reilly a year ago or so ago that met in Lois’s Maine studio, in the midst of those iconic out buildings she loves to paint.

Seeing Lois is a rejuvenating experience, and despite her protestations that she is a painter, not a NY Artist with a capital A, she epitomizes what an artist is to me. There is nothing even slightly pretentious about her. I am honored to call her a friend.

In the meantime, I look forward to reading more on your site!

Will

Comment on A review of La polvere di Morandi/ Morandi’s Dust by Johanna K Kiernan

Johanna K Kiernan — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:08:38 +0000

Your writing is just as beautiful. “This film has the kind of thrills only a painter is likely to appreciate…” I read this paragraph several times and may come back for more!

Comment on Interview with Frank Hobbs by Aidan Hickey

Aidan Hickey — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:58:36 +0000

This is a wonderful interview… full of insight and wisdom. Many thanks to both of you.

Comment on Giorgio Morandi, The Essence of the Landscape by Sue McLeod

Sue McLeod — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:11:16 +0000

In reply to Steve Baker. Thanks for bringing this important show to our attention. I’ve been desperately looking for a book covering Morandi’s landscapes. Can’t believe someone has produced one. His landscapes are fantastic, astounding. I wonder at the chances of tracking down a catalogue after all these years?

Comment on Gretna Campbell by Walter Collier Nicolai

Walter Collier Nicolai — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 04:34:32 +0000

I was a student of Gretna Campbell at Yale while doing a Master’s of Divinity Degree, (I later did a Master’s of Fine Art Degree). Gretna Campbell showed me such a generosity of spirit in talking about my drawings. I was shy about my drawings as I had none of the formal training that others in the class had at that time…rather…I had none and I worked hard to improve and to keep up. What I did do though was drive my huge old 67 Dodge Station Wagon out to Long Wharf and do drawings at night of boats in relationship to lights and the pier. Gretna Campbell would say few words but her comments were exacting. She said to me, ” See these three points…these three lights you’ve made specific in this drawing at night? They set up the whole drawing and make it work….lights against the dark.”. Well I was blown away by that comment…for two reasons…one being that I had grown up around a pier at my father’s river taxi on the Delaware near Philadelphia and secondly…that I was doing something very quickly and spontaneously in the front of my old station wagon that seemed not very studio like for Yale and here I was being complimented. It was at a gallery opening of other artists at Bert’s Walkers Gallery in Provincetown that I asked Paul Resika in 2022 if he knew Gretna Campbell. Resika laughed and said enthusiastically…”Yes of course I knew her quite well…and remember her riding her bicycle with a large canvas strapped to her back going out to paint. The canvas was larger than she was but she was determined. Wonderful big paintings of Nature.” I was so filled with joy to hear this from Paul Resika. Her comments to me in the drawing class now made more complete sense. It was the process of going out….into nature…not confined to a studio environment…that resonated with her. So my old station wagon drawings done in the front seat in the rain in the dark by the pier at Long Wharf in New Haven had been an avenue for her to tell me…you have something here…hold on to it.

Comment on Fairfield Porter – "Mystery that is Essential to Reality" by Sharon Knettell

Sharon Knettell — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:06:08 +0000

I absolutely loved Porter’s observation on political art. It’s a plague.

Comment on Interview with Arthur Levine by Ken Owen

Ken Owen — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 03:08:55 +0000

I knew Art in the late 70s and early 80s when I was married to his daughter. I still miss him even tho she and I split up. His process was mysterious to me and I couldn’t figure out how the finished product came to be.
Art thank you for all u did for me back then