Chardin - Lean Diet

In today's fast world you can easily overlook the subtle beauty and balance of a Chardin. You need to slow yourself down to properly appreciate one of his paintings.
Reference online article--http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/still_life/chardin/chardin.htm

Emil Nolde Quote

"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks"

Emil Nolde

Mallarme thoughts on Manet

Manet, when he casts away the cares of art and chats with a friend. . . in his studio, expresses himself with brilliancy. It is then that he says what the he means by painting . . . how he paints as he does. Each time he begins a picture, says he, he plunges head long into it, and feels like a man who knows that his surest plan to swim safely is dangerous as it may seem, to throw himself into the water. . . no one should paint a landscape and a figure by the same process, with the same knowledge, or in the same fashion; now what is more, even two landscapes or two figures. Each work should be a new creation of the mind.

Mallarme states about Manet thoughts.

2009 Chelsea Opener

Check out on YouTube "2009 Chelsea Opener", presented to us by James Kalm.
Thank you James!

View some of Raoul DeKeyser works.

Peter Doig

New paintings
at Gavin Brown Enterprise / Jan. 2009

It seems to me that Doig likes pink. Avery used pink,too. Interesting.
Using the color pink is not easy. Check it out on you tube. "Peter Doig new paintings at Gavin Brown Enterprise".

Lee Krasner Quotes

+ I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

+ I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

+ I like to surprise myself. I have to be interested in what I’m doing. Surprise, for me, is as important as it is to anyone that views it once it becomes a painting.

The energy of Elizabeth Murray

In a 1991 interview Murray, stated, "When you walk out of the studio, and you walk down the street that's where you find art. Or you find it at home, right in front of you. I paint about things that surround me-things that I pick up and handle everyday. That's what art is. Art is an epiphany in a coffee cup. "
http://islandlass.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/elizabeth-murray/
Elizabeth Murray, A Pioneering Painter.

ArtPrize bringing art to the people.

Part of my still life arrived today.

A piece of my still life arrived today, so quietly it was placed.

Catch the energy

Joan Mitchell's energy is contagious.

Update on next painting

I am working on a new painting, this painting has the American flag in the still life. While I am painting the still life it has been growing. Once the painting is completed, then I will fully understand why I painted this. The over all feel of the painting and understanding is arriving in pieces.

An Idea

Yesterday an idea started to formulate for a painting.
Arriving from many direct roads.
Several roads meeting at a center point.
A center point stepping on 4 corners.
Traveling through 4 corners.
An idea arriving.
A breeze.
Suitcase full.
Welcome.

By RaNae Couture