The Course Of Time: 2011
Caren D'Ache Paint

News From The Couch …. GOLD

A little bit of Egypt today and the reminder of the deep impact this culture has on our world.  The symbols, people and art work are always a good way to explore ideas again and again.

The use of gold in a painting really dramatically changes the impact of color on the total piece and like the one above, I am really enjoying the process of learning and having fun with it’s added dimension to my world.

How’s Your Day Going?

Working Artist ….. News From The Couch

I like this couch because It reminds of some of the creative sessions I had late at night in my old studio.   Nothing like some friends, some conversation, a cold beer and Inspiration.

I have been working in my studio and working a full time job.  So the inspiration is still there and the devotion is still there and it’s best to make the best out of the gifts your given I think.  I’ve got some great work in process and I’ll be unveiling that in a month or so. 

 

Here’s a pic of some of the work from the Fall series.  Hope your day is going well. 

 

 

This series was partially inspired by focus of a frenzied paced and the racing to get here and there in this world.  I wanted to take some time out and paint what it felt like to rush all day long and found that there is this delicate gracefulness in the middle of chaos.  A fractal; maybe, or at least my own personal version of one.  What do you think?  Like them together or one at a time?

 

Have a wonderful day! 

All work is done on archival paper and can be purchased.  Please contact Beth at agapistudios@hotmail.com for more information.  These works all measure 14 x 17 and cost between $300 and $400.  Enjoy

News From The Couch … Just One

 

 

A bit of lighthearted artwork completed at the end of the summer in preparation for the fall series.   This work is inspired by a bit of egypt and what else ….. FUN.  Enjoy you day!

You can contact me at agapistudios@hotmail.com to purchase, this work measures 14 x 17 and is done on archival paper.  The cost is $400.00

Fall … A season to feel the fresh breeze

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New Work From My Studio … One view at a time

 

News From The Couch ….. New Work

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please contact agapistudos@hotmail.com for more information on NEW Work for fall.   All work shown is 14 x 17 done on hot press archival paper. 

Ahhh a little kitten sneak too

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Friday’s Famous Artist is …. Jackson Pollock

 

Imagine if you will a world filled with post renaissance work, Madonna and child, an eloquent Victorian lady in a scene  perhaps the illuminating painting of Monet or Van Gogh to seize upon.  

Fresh out of the war and into a new idea of American Importance comes Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell to name a few.    Flash forward here we are in American in the 1940’s fresh out of the depression to end all depressions and World War 2.    Enter Peggy Guggenheim. 

 

This is New York in 1942  where Peggy Guggenheim established the Museum of Modern Art named after her Uncle.  With a thrill for the unusual and a absolute passion for abstract art, New York became the entreated hub for the New form of work called Abstract Impressionism. 

 

“They worked large and they worked messily, recklessly. Pollock “broke the ice,” de Kooning would say.”

In fact Pollack was given supreme prestige for his work, a position garnered without the intense presence or nod from “the old school.”  America/Pollack, were creating their own identity and staking a claim on art that no other place in the world could.   For This Pollock earned a supreme and undeniable place in history. 

The great mystery of unlocking a door no person had ever unlocked in the art world … that honor went not only to his friends but also to Pollack who seized the essence of this unique form of expression and laid it down on the canvas.  In this process his friends and colleagues also imparted their own vision in the wake of knowledge unknown to artists before. 

 

Notorious for his drinking problem and his struggle with alcoholism, Pollock crashed his car August 11, 1956 and died near his New York home.

"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."  Jackson Pollock

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Friday’s Famous Artist is …. Jackson Pollock

 

Imagine if you will a world filled with post renaissance work, Madonna and child, an eloquent Victorian lady in a scene  perhaps the illuminating painting of Monet or Van Gogh to seize upon.  

Fresh out of the war and into a new idea of American Importance comes Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell to name a few.    Flash forward here we are in American in the 1940’s fresh out of the depression to end all depressions and World War 2.    Enter Peggy Guggenheim. 

 

This is New York in 1942  where Peggy Guggenheim established the Museum of Modern Art named after her.  With a thrill for the unusual and a absolute passion for abstract art, New York became the entreated hub for the New form of work called Abstract Impressionism. 

 

“They worked large and they worked messily, recklessly. Pollock “broke the ice,” de Kooning would say.”

In fact Pollack was given supreme prestige for his work, a position garnered without the intense presence or nod from “the old school.”  America/Pollack, were creating their own identity and staking an art claim that no other place in the world could claim credit for.   For This Pollack earned a supreme and undeniable place in history. 

The great mystery of unlocking a door no person had ever unlocked in the art world … that honor went not only to his friends but to Pollack who seiged the essence of this unique form of expression and laid it down on the canvas.  In this process his friends and colleagues also imparted their own vision in the wake of this knowledge unknown to artists before. 

 

Nortorious for his drinking problem and his struggle with alcoholism, Pollock crashed his car August 11, 1956 and died near his New York home.

"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."  Jackson Pollock

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Fridays Famous Artist Is …..

Robert Motherwell …..

 

  

       

 

Robert Motherwell born Jan 1915 and living until July of 1991 was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.  He was one of the youngest of the New York School which included Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko, Willem De Kooning and Phillip Guston.

Robert’s gift for rhetoric and easy comfortable feeling around people is credited with placing him on the map.  Though others in his group who later became as famous, might not have been had Motherwell not been so engaging with groups.

His writing and three published books:

• The Dada Painters and Poets, R. Motherwell, New York, 1951.
• Robert Motherwell, The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell, University of California Press, 1999.
• Robert Motherwell translated to English Paul Signac's book, D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionisme, 1938.

are all considered a credit to his ability to engage the average reader and not just the art critic. 

To me his gift as a printmaker served him very well as a painter and he was able to glean techniquest and improvise on the canvas creating almost cinamographic images with his paint.  His work is beautifully fluid and yet eloquently simple and moving at the same time.