Look the negative in the face
And live with it.
Yesterday morning, as I woke up, I realized that Bruegel is my favorite painter:
I say this full-well knowing that there are several other painters whom I dearly love and admire. Matisse, for instance, whose large canvas at The Phillips Collection was a pilgrimage destination of my boyhood years in Washington, DC:
My young blood was drenched in the colors of painting at The Phillips Collection.
Even so, as I wrack my brain today trying to justify the ways of man in the face of AI, the onslaught of the algorithm and stupidity, it becomes harder and harder to say what is so great about humanism after all.
Perhaps we are better off being replaced by machines.
In any case, I expect to show a couple prints at Press On, an exhibition of contemporary letterpress art at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, outside Washington in Hyattsville, Maryland, May 30—July 15:
Convert the negative into being.
Interesting to note the you liked Matisse and Bonnard. I was once in two exhibitions, on about Matisse in Düsseldorf, one about Bonnard in Paris. I don't remember much of Matisses works, only that about half of his works were „standard size“ canvases. Of Bonnard I only remember a picture borrowed from a Swiss private collection about his garden, and mostly the yellow „dot“ in the middle.- If you buy a canvas for oil paintings in the US, how big is it, and is the price somewhat proportional to the area size of the canvas?
Can't wait to see these engravings at the show... And their author;-)