Month: May 2018

#859

This counts as an almost.  15″ x 22″ Watercolor, pen and ink.  I blacked out the “trees” in the foreground. Really did NOT work. Turned the paper over and painted #860 on the other side. But the cityscape part, I liked, and will try that again. It’s closer to traditional watercolor  technique than what I’ve been doing, and maybe good for a transition to try some plein air painting.  Have been thinking  how I could do plein air landscapes, or street scenes–but abstract.

 

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Artists against Capitalism!

Why is it so hard to find committed, radical/anarchist artists–committed, both to making art, AND to working together to find ways to make art outside the capitalist, gatekeeper, gallery to investor system? Cause no one can do this alone.
One of the factors in what makes me so discouraged, and depressed in my efforts to make art.

It can’t be just talk. It has to be action–discovering, creating through action. It has to begin with saying: we can’t do this anymore! We can’t work within the system anymore! Enough!
And then–looking at what we CAN do–and doing it!

Though the material and social problems involved are unique to each medium and form–this is something that should be addressed by artists of all kinds–dancers, theater people, poets, musicians –together, as a collectivist work.