Visual Critiques, done in response to the work of colleagues, are opportunities to enlarge experience of disparate aesthetic languages. Shabnam is an Iranian sculptor in the first year MFA group. Her piece was a multi-storied stack of cardboard boxes with a viewing window cut in the bottom corner and the top story open to the ceiling. Fields of cut paper grass sprouted from the floor on each … [Read more...]
Visual Critique
Visual Critiques are paintings or drawings done in response to work done by other students. ABOVE: Fish — gouache, 6.5 x 10 inches (17 x 25 cm), 11/05/11 Couple — gouache, 11.25 x 15 inches (17 x 25 cm), 11/14/11 … [Read more...]
Mid-term
A Japanese wedding kimono was loaned to me for a studio set-up with a vase of silk flowers. It's an opportunity for color, pattern, and drama. Two Visual Critique responses to oil paintings by two students. The Wednesday night model didn't show up so students took turns posing for the class; thank you Ying! ABOVE: Silk Flowers, oil on linen, 22 x 20 inches (56 x 51 cm), 10/28/11 Silk … [Read more...]
Visual Critique
Visual Critiques are drawings done in response to other students's work. My drawings were made without preliminary sketches, worked directly from six paintings, work of half the class. Drawings for these assignments become the property of the artist whose painting is the original subject. 1. George Bellows's lithos of prize fights came to mind as I began "Fighters". As Bellows' had done, I … [Read more...]
BU First Month
Events are moving too quickly to post everything from the graduate school program on the blog. Here are highlights. The photographs are snapshots, hand held, daylight. The city paintings are influenced in part by recently reading Don DeLillo's White Noise. The story concerned an "airborne toxic event" hovering over Somerville, Mass, circa 1985. The next series of paintings use only black and … [Read more...]