Comments on: About Painting Perceptions

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:09:47 +0000

Thanks Paul – I appreciate your feedback. I just peeked at your website, very impressive painting you are doing. Your still lifes and landscapes are quite wonderful.
Check back here soon as in the next couple of weeks or sooner I will be launching my new redesign that will also include a discussion forum.

By: Paul Lyon Carney

Paul Lyon Carney — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:40:59 +0000

Hey Larry,

Your blog is great. Contemporary realism can be a lonely world, thanks for rounding up the crowd a little.

Take Care, Paul

By: JanPaul Wittebol

JanPaul Wittebol — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:53:45 +0000

Hi Larry,

I found this blog via Google Alerts. It’s a relief…Thank you for putting it together.

Great name too. Conceptual art, perceptual art…

Cheers,
JanPaul

By: rick levy

rick levy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:33:51 +0000

Hi Larry and grateful to getting this together. And also to Gage, I live and paint and love this blog, site etc. I am not to blessed with tech stuff to even have to ask to sign up to receive your blog or do I just check in once in a while with some feedback, paintings. This blog is amazingly uplifting to my senses. I dont even know how to get back here. Finding it was the great part. Is it painting perceptions.blog or
Larry Goff . what. I just spent an hour or two thinkin’ and lookin’

By: David Carmack Lewis

David Carmack Lewis — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:59:49 +0000

Hi Larry,
A little while back I posted an artist named Gage Opdenbrouw (http://www.engageingart.com/) on my blog “All The Art Out There”. I guess he found the link to your blog on mine and wrote to me, “Also wanted to thank you for the link to paintingperceptions.com , it’s like a gold mine for exactly the sort of painting i most enjoy, so it’s really great…”
His work may be just the sort of painting you like as well. At least some of it.
Thanks for the blog!
-David

By: Patricia Watwood

Patricia Watwood — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:26:36 +0000

Hi Larry,
I am a “perceptual” painter-mostly figures and portraits, and was recommended to your blog by another painter in Brooklyn. This is a great blog, and I like the mix of artists you are showing and discussing. Thanks for creating a thoughtful space for us to see and learn of others on this path. I’d never seen Galucho before–amazing!
Patricia Watwood
patriciawatwood.com

By: Peter Mann

Peter Mann — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:20:17 +0000

Hello, I have just noticed that you had a link to the film I made about my father Sargy Mann on the site, and I read the lovely piece about him on Ilaria Roselli del Turco’s blog. I thought it was possible that you might also be interested in the book we worked on together, I am obviously completely biassed but I think my father writes very well about figurative painting, and its relationship to visual perception. Anyone interested in his work might like the book, but also I think the text, roughly 40,00 words is also a very interesting piece of writing about the kind of painting he loved, and tried to make, and from the things I have seen on this site it seems to me that many of the people here are interested in the same ideas. you can see the book at http://www.spbooks.org and here is a very small sample … “At this time I was deeply involved in the nature of visual perception and how this affected drawing;what did you actually see, and how could you draw what you saw? I thought a lot about two eyed vision, which was normal,but which didnt seem to be what chaps painted unless early Cubism was about this, and what about cezanne, was the strangeness of his drawing partly to do with two eyed looking? The Euston Road tradition passed on in modified form by Dick Lee, Tony Eyton, Euan Uglow and others, seemed to employ two eyed vision but you had to shut one eye to take a measurement which seemed inconsistent to me, and if you were drawing something close to, such as a still life, then things, the position of them, jumped about as you opened or shut one eye.” It was hard to try to find an extract that really worked on its own, but anyway I hope you see what I mean. by the way thank you for the link to my film.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:08:47 +0000

In reply to June Skalak. Thanks June!

By: June Skalak

June Skalak — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:52:05 +0000

Hi……..Came across your Blog when looking for more information about Linda Carey, who you feature on this site. What you have here is so very interesting to me as a painter. I will certainly be back to read more.
All the Best for the New Year.
June Skalak, Williamsburg, Va.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:41:22 +0000

In reply to Francis Sills.

Thanks for checking out this site Francis, hope you will come back to check out the video interview with Micheal Kareken that I am traveling to make in a few days – may take me a week or so to edit everything but should be good. I looked at your site, some very interesting painting – will keep it in mind to look at closely when I have more time.