tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46576936558117119692024-03-14T00:40:38.748-04:00Live Art or DieArt and Musings by Michael RoundyMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-89578967977135786082012-11-28T20:57:00.001-05:002012-11-28T20:57:11.856-05:00In progress, Self-Portrait in charcoal
Self-Portrait 1
Charcoal on paper
38 x 25 1/2 inches
First initial stage.
This past week has been a tumultuous one at home so today I decided to play hooky from work and make a self-portrait. I hadn't made a self-portrait since I was an undergraduate at Humboldt State University. I started this at about 9 this morning and stopped working around 3 in the afternoon with a Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-37813274789012095522012-11-19T10:29:00.003-05:002012-11-19T10:29:55.321-05:00Visiting Israeli Artists at UMass LowellLast week I had the pleasure of working with two artists, Esther Yaloz and Lital Gold, from Israel that attended the same school. They both now live and work here in the United States, one in upstate New York and the other in Philadelphia. Both work in the textile industry as designers.
They came to our school as a part of a larger group of faculty and students from their Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-58038336568462313022012-11-13T17:24:00.003-05:002012-11-13T17:24:57.820-05:00Posting work on dailypaintworks.com
Orbital Symmetry
Oil and ink on canvas
8 x 13 inches
2006
Today I've been posting some of my older work on dailypaintworks.com in hopes of sparking some interest. These paintings seem so old to me, yet they were done just a few years ago. Amazing how so much can happen in such a short amount of time. I posted a painting that was almost done just before the fire and I Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-58344619631952168772012-11-13T16:08:00.001-05:002012-11-13T16:14:33.014-05:00Powhida: CynicalAdvice 2012
Artwork by William Powhida seen at http://dailyserving.com/2012/11/art-vexation-interview-with-william-powhida/
Words to live by? Maybe. -MikeMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-89942475241811755552012-11-11T13:56:00.001-05:002012-11-11T13:59:40.341-05:00I'm back!! And with new stuff in the works.
Ginger Gold Apples
8 X 10 inches
Acrylic on canvas
2012
$50.00
Well, its been a long time since I've been on here to post anything and I've decided to make this blog more about the art I'm making than about art made by other people. I will however post from time to time about work that inspires me.
Anyway, here is my first painting in a series I am working on that will have a similar Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-6441546687984237182011-05-09T07:55:00.000-04:002011-05-09T07:55:16.197-04:00With cuts to the arts, what will we have lost? | Concord Monitor
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In the neighborhood where I grew up we all knew what it meant when someone talked about Art. Art was the guy who lived across the street from my family's house. He had a small contracting company that specialized in concrete projects - sidewalks, driveways, floors and that sort of thing. My older brother Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-51180188552619030892011-03-11T09:10:00.000-05:002011-03-11T09:10:22.961-05:00Stops Along the Way- Paintings by Bob LarsonBob Larson, formerly a Concord lawyer, has been painting for years and has long been a patron of the arts, curating exhibits at his former law firm Sulloway and Hollis in Concord as well as sitting on the board of the University of NH Art Museum. My first introduction to him came through a mutual friend and stone artist, Chance Anderson of whom the two collaborated on several sculptural Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-81535829515672797672011-03-09T07:59:00.000-05:002011-03-09T07:59:47.516-05:00Measuring Up: New Hampshire Arts Education Data Project
This should be interesting, unfortunately I will be teaching at these times so I can't make it. I'm looking forward to seeing the results though. With all of the cuts school districts are making around the state, I'm sure the 'state of arts education' is going to continue to decline. -MP.S. When I hear of the results, I will post them here.
Educators, Administrators, Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-81445693681227120092011-02-12T07:55:00.001-05:002011-02-12T07:56:06.569-05:00The Future of Art, an immediated autodocumentaryGreat thoughts on the output of art in this information driven time. What is the right tool for the job? Do traditional arts fall by the wayside because of so many new tools? Making art within a group? How does one find a voice in the cacophony of voices already singing? Great video. Enjoy. -M
The Future of Art from KS12 on Vimeo.
The Future of Artan Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-53379325803909798312011-02-09T07:25:00.001-05:002011-02-09T07:26:55.464-05:00An artless redefinition of adequate - NashuaTelegraph.comCONCORD – It’s not every day you get a Grammy-nominated artist testifying against proposed legislation in the state capital. But when Goffstown singer-songwriter Judy Pancoast heard about a bill that would make music education optional in the state’s public schools, she wanted her voice to be heard.Pancoast, nominated this year for her children’s album, told members of the House Education Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-2911453178720562442011-01-26T07:20:00.002-05:002011-02-05T07:52:40.725-05:00New Hampshire native George Condo at New Museum, New YorkConcord, New Hampshire native and UMass Lowell alum., George Condo is now showing at the New Museum in New York City in a solo exhibition titled Mental States. Known for his portraiture of invented characters that often depict as he says, "composites of various psychological states painted in different ways."
George Condo, “Jean Louis’ Mind,” 2005. Oil on canvas 45×38 inches. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-4247239833352957342011-01-20T11:27:00.001-05:002011-01-20T14:10:10.544-05:00Frank Stella, Irregular Polygons, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Chocorua IV
1966
Fluorescent alkyd and epoxy paints on canvas, 120 x 128 x 4 in.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Miriam and Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund, a gift from Judson and Carol Bemis, Class of 1976, and gifts from the Lathrop Fellows, in honor of Brian Kennedy, Director of the Hood Museum of Art, 2005-2010
© 2010 Frank Stella/ Artists Rights Socety (ARS), Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-86143315519785461432011-01-18T17:44:00.000-05:002011-01-18T17:44:26.003-05:00On the Apartheid between "art" and "craft". By Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz just posted this today. I consistently hear from our young students/artists this notion that the medium they work in is better than another medium, usually not outright but in a subtle, 'higher than thou' kind of way. As Mr. Saltz puts it, it is 'what you make- no matter how you make it. It just has to work.'-MHere is his entire posting from Facebook:
- Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-38408151484279634572011-01-16T12:35:00.002-05:002011-01-20T11:55:47.055-05:00Don't do it for anyone else
This letter comes from a fascinating website titled Letters of Note that features letters from or to, famous or infamous people. Hours of fodder here. Enjoy.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-70056852565102598572011-01-15T07:53:00.000-05:002011-01-15T07:53:15.224-05:00Palmer Hayden, Born January 15,1890
Palmer Hayden, African-American artist, b. Jan. 15, 1890 (d. 1973):The Janitor Who Paints, ca. 1930 - oil on canvas (Smithsonian)“I decided to paint to support my love of art, rather than have art support me.” — Palmer Hayden quoted in Nora Holt, “Painter Palmer Hayden Symbolizes John Henry,” New York Times, 1 Feb. 1947.“By 1940 Palmer Hayden was known for his narrative scenes of New Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-91720003716659802302011-01-13T14:10:00.002-05:002011-02-07T23:50:27.482-05:00MoMA Purchases Censored WojnarowiczFor those of you following the recent scandal at the Smithsonian Museum's National Portrait Gallery of the David Wojnarowicz piece "A Fire in My Belly", that was removed/censored from their exhibition Hide/Seek- Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, there is welcome news as reported by the NY Times. MoMA has purchased both the artist's cut (7 min) and the full version (13 min)Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657693655811711969.post-57498477911314871962011-01-11T21:41:00.000-05:002011-01-11T21:41:02.061-05:00Welcome!Welcome to a blog that I have been thinking about for a long time. I always thought New Hampshire art should be lifted out of the granite quarries of regionalism and so here is my attempt to shed some light on the fantastic art being created by so many talented artists that call New Hampshire their home. I will attempt to highlight galleries, museums and artists' studios from around Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593078850008668143noreply@blogger.com0