Simultaneously …
1. Do a website make-over. Please click to see → www.michaelliebhaber.com
2. Start a whole new body of paintings.
3. Hold down a regular job.
It is always important to look like you know what you are doing …
3 ways to keep busy
Tag: oil painting
Thinking about Voyager 1 – Repurposing Paintings into Planetary Landscapes
The spacecraft, Voyager 1, was launched 36 years ago – and now it’s gone! It is the first human-built object to leave our solar system – a heck of a long way. Click to see the story at Voyager-NASA.
In honor of Voyager’s milestone, I am repurposing previous paintings into a series of “planetary” digital images. Like Voyager 1, the original paintings are long gone, only the images remain.
Paris – Never again?
I am working on my last two travel watercolors from my trip to Paris earlier this month: A view of Rue Polpot in Montmarte and a backside view of Notre Dame Cathedral. I will have an online show of all of my French watercolors when I am finished. Stay tuned for details.
After that, I’m finished with small travel paintings. I need to do something different, big. That’s not to say I will not do a sketch now and then. I still plan on lots of travels.
You can vote, have your say in my new direction. See tomorrow’s post.
Over The Hills And Far Away
Many times I’ve lied – Many times I’ve listened
Many times I’ve wondered how much there is to know.
Jan Vermeer turns 379 years-old today; looks just as good as last year.
Jan Vermeer’s birth/baptism day is October 31, 1632.
Piestewa Peak
Beautiful in it’s ruggedness. This view is from the South. A warm Spring day.
Grace Hartigan: March-born American artist
March is Women’s History Month in 2011. I am doing a series of brief posts about women artists who were born in March. This is the last in the series. I hope you have enjoyed the posts.
Today’s March-born American artist is Grace Hartigan. Previous artists in this series were Rosa Bonheur, from France, and Americans Diane Arbus, Melissa Miller, and Jennifer Bartlett.
Grace Hartigan was born on March 28th. She is recognized as one of the Abstract Expressionists and an early Pop Artist. Her work sold very well in New York throughout the 1950s. She was the only female artist in the Museum of Modern Art‘s exhibition, The New American Painting, which toured Europe in 1958-1959.
She married for the fourth time in 1960 and moved to Baltimore. She spent over forty years at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she was director of the graduate program at the Hoffberger School of Painting.
Hartigan was distained by the New York art world when she moved to Baltimore and dissed Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art by saying they were not painting because they lacked content and emotion. She also refused to join other feminists against male chauvinism. She is reported to have said: “I find that the subject of discrimination is only ever brought up by inferior talents to excuse their own inadequacy as artists.”.
For more information, see:
Esaak, S. (2011). Artists in 60 Seconds: Grace Hartigan. http://arthistory.about.com/od/nameshh/p/hartigan_grace.htm.
Charles Darwent, C. (Monday, 8 December, 2008). Grace Hartigan: New York School painter who later rejected Abstract Expressionism. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/grace-hartigan-new-york-school-painter-who-later-rejected-abstract-expressionism-1056668.html
Superstition has it …
Finally, an oil painting. This is a view of the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix.
