Friday, October 17, 2008

Elizabeth Peyton




Elizabeth Peyton is beautiful. She is having a show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art of her portraits. The works are small images taken from photographs of famous and not so famous people - They appear to be done on birch panels that have been sanded smooth - there is a obsessiveness about them: sort of the feeling of falling in love as a child with a magazine image of a celebrity. They are beautiful and nice just like she is.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

You paint your personality


Its inescapable - What one is attracted to - you cant hide it in a painting - especially a realist work - That is why so many realist paintings quiver on the edge of mediocrity. Why insecure collectors fear being judged for sentimentality - Reveal your self if you dare - it takes a genius to recognize a genius.