My Third Eye Scratched

Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ Was Subversive

2011-12-23T12:47:00.001Z

"Around holiday time, you’ve got to envy the Norwegians. They’ve got real candles on the tree, gobbets of pork fat for Christmas dinner (these are euphemistically known as “ribs”) and aquavit to feed the glow. This year, as an extra Yuletide treat just for them, they’re also getting fresh insights into the most influential artwork of the 20th century."

"That’s how Marcel Duchamp’s urinal “Fountain” once polled among experts, and we’re all supposed to know why: In 1917, when Duchamp submitted a store-bought urinal to a New York exhibition, he took a low-end piece of mechanical mass production and, by fiat, elevated it to the status of fine art. All the genre-bending, class-stretching, anti-craft freedoms of contemporary art follow from that moment. "

Read the rest of the article here

John Chamberlain - RIS (Rest In Sculpture)

2011-12-22T22:47:00.003Z

"John Chamberlain sculpted explosive and expressive forms out of crushed, painted automobile parts. Unconcerned with trends and movements he created gestural forms worlds away from the current artistic moment. Born in 1927, he died today at 84 years old."

"Known for living life fully and wildly, Chamberlain once joked to the New York Times: "I once had a drink with Billie Holiday, and I smoked a joint with Louis Armstrong. Those are my real claims to fame. Write that down."

For full story and more pictures at The New York Times

Sun of a Double Beach I - An Art Trip Painting

2011-11-13T14:31:00.000Z

Sun of a Double Beach I - Acrylic on paper - 20 x 35 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com

Silent Shape - An Art Trip Painting

2011-11-07T01:27:00.001Z

Silent Shape ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 15 x 20 inches - $150 - arttrip@live.com

Thousands of rabbits in New York

2011-11-06T14:38:00.000Z

Simply amazing!

Everyone loves Magritte - An Art Trip Painting

2011-11-02T11:26:00.001Z

Everyone loves Magritte I - Acrylic on Canvas - 18 x 24 inches - $150 - arttrip@live.com

3D pumpkin carvings by Ray Villafane

2011-10-31T01:30:00.000Z

Food sculptor Ray Villafane of Villafane Studios in Arizona creates amazing 3D pumpkin carvings including a particular awesome one in the likeness of talk show host David Letterman.

Boiled Soul - An Art Trip Painting

2011-10-29T13:11:00.002+01:00

"The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous." ~ Jules Renard

Boiled Soul ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 22 x 30 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com

More paintings here

Maybe Van Gogh Wasn't Murdered

2011-10-28T01:07:00.000+01:00

Van Gogh Museum Says There's "Not Enough Evidence" That the Artist's Death Was Anything But Suicide

"In their exhaustive new biography of Vincent van Gogh, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith contest the well-known story of the artist's suicide. Instead, they suggest that he was accidentally killed by two boys in the French village in which he lived, and pretended to have killed himself in order to protect them. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam — which gave the authors access to a trove of van Gogh's family letters — does not accept this theory, maintaining that suicide remains the most plausible explanation. Investigating the death of a mentally ill artist that occurred 121 years ago is challenging, to say the least. How does the evidence for each side stack up?'

Article here

When color enhances sound

2011-10-27T01:58:00.000+01:00

A new book about how musicians use color looks at Blue Man Group, Daft Punk and others. Full article here.

Happy Birthday Pablo Picasso

2011-10-25T12:42:00.000+01:00

A tribute with paintings

Duet VI - A Pair of Art Trip Paintings

2011-10-24T09:17:00.002+01:00

Acrylic on bristol paper - 22 x 30 inches - $200 ea - arttrip@live.com

Winter is Coming - Three Paintings from the Renwick Gallery

2011-10-23T14:21:00.007+01:00

These paintings just reminded me that winter will soon be here

The Renwick Gallery

Landscape with a Reductionist Cube - An Art Trip Painting

2011-10-20T09:43:00.000+01:00

Landscape with reductionist cube - Acrylic on Paper - 15 x 22 inch - $200 - arttrip@live.com

More paintings for sale here

Vincent Van Gogh: Was The Legendary Painter Murdered?

2011-10-19T12:06:00.004+01:00

Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming I - An Art Trip Painting

2011-10-18T12:02:00.000+01:00

Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming I ~ Acrylic on Paper - 18 x 24 inches

$150 - To purchase email: arttrip@live.com

The Outer Limits of Visual Experience

2011-10-16T11:53:00.001+01:00

A collection of videos from the Huffington Post

Here is an example

I brought Picasso a dog - An Art Trip Painting

2011-10-14T12:04:00.002+01:00

I brought Picasso a dog. He didn't want it. I let the dog go.

I brought Picasso a dog ~ Acrylic on paper - 20 x 32 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com

Herbie Hancock - Buddhist Jazz Musician

2011-10-13T09:45:00.001+01:00

This is an awesome interview. I didn't know that Herbie was Buddhist.

MR: It seems like that's where growth comes from. If you get out of your habits, it seems like that's the only potential for growth.

HH: Right, absolutely, and Miles encouraged that. He would always say things like, "I pay you to practice on the bandstand," and he would say things about getting out of the comfort zone. That's what we talked about back in the day, and that's one of the reasons that I first started practicing Buddhism, the musical reason--it was very much compatible with my training with Miles and others. Of course, that was the tip of the iceberg. Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life. As a matter of fact, the way I view myself is different now than it was for the vast majority of my life. I don't view myself as a musician anymore--I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

MR: I get that, totally. When you think of it as a form of communication, what you've done is evolved your particular form because it's growing at the same level as your spirituality and being a human.

HH: Exactly. Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human. What I'm talking about is the best of what the human spirit has to offer. So, we're talking about things like courage, wisdom, compassion, and those kinds of things.

MR: Higher purpose and higher senses.

HH: Exactly.

The complete interview here

More here

Supposed Landscape with Invisible Metamorphosis - An Art Trip Painting

2011-10-12T12:56:00.001+01:00

Supposed Landscape with Invisible Metamorphosis ~ Acrylic on paper - 16 x 20 inches - $150 - arttrip@live.com

Royal de Luxe Stabs A Car With a Giant Fork

2011-10-11T01:22:00.001+01:00

via Super Punch

Duet V - A Pair of Art Trip Paintings

2011-10-10T12:08:00.001+01:00

Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia (Damn Tree)I ~ 16 x 20 inch - Acrylic on paper - $150 each - arttrip@live.com

Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia (Damn Tree) IV - An Art Trip Painting

2011-10-08T12:22:00.001+01:00

Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia (Damn Tree) IV ~ 16 x 20 inch - acrylic on paper - $150 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Salvador Dali In 1958 Interview with Mike Wallace

2011-10-07T01:19:00.000+01:00

A quote for inspiration

2011-10-05T01:11:00.001+01:00

Click on graphic for detail

Duet IV - A Pair of Art Trip Paintings

2011-10-02T13:22:00.003+01:00

Acrylic on watercolor paper

Amy Winehouse - The last recording

2011-10-01T01:40:00.001+01:00

Oh man, she is so original in her styling, she could have moved jazz forward from it's rut. She could have been a game changer. How funny to see that her last recording was a jazz tune since that how she started.

Mike Leavitt's Outrageous Art Star Action Figures

2011-09-30T01:10:00.000+01:00

More here

Just saying...

2011-09-29T01:00:00.000+01:00

Giacometti and the Etruscans

2011-09-28T01:16:00.000+01:00

Giacometti's "Tall Standing Woman I"

"The Shadow of the Evening," an Etruscan statue from approximately 350-300 B.C."

"Showing Alberto Giacometti's best-known works — "Walking Man," "Tall Standing Woman," and the "Woman of Venice" series — alongside the art of an ancient culture dating to 900 B.C. comes as a bit of a curatorial surprise. But that is just what the Pinacothèque is doing, in "Giacometti and the Etruscans," a new show of 30 sculptures by the Swiss artist and over 150 Etruscan objects that runs through January 8.
One work in particular provides an essential link between the ancient civilization and the modern existentialist work of Giacometti: "The Shadow of the Evening," a small bronze statue that probably dates to the Hellenistic period and depicts a very young man with a slender, elongated body, as if stretched upwards to the divine. It's an enigmatic figure — does it represent an offering, a person making an offering, or a god? The resemblance between this thin, intense, and fragile figure from so long ago and Giacometti's "Walking Man" is incredibly striking."

"Giacometti saw the statue in Tuscany in the early 1960s and was fascinated by it — an interest that began when he visited an exhibition of Etruscan art at the Louvre in 1955. The exhibition includes notes that Giacometti took on the Louvre show — scribbling on the catalogue, covering it with little sketches, and scattering drawings of warriors on the map of Etruria. Could Giacometti have found some kind of ideal synthesis of humanity in this stripped-down, emaciated figure and the smiling, voluptuous bodies on the Etruscan tombs?"

Full article at ArtInfo

Snakes Know It's Yoga - tNathalie Djurberg

2011-09-27T10:40:00.001+01:00

The awesomely art of Nathalie Djurberg

More here

Duet III - A Pair of Art Trip Paintings

2011-09-26T12:06:00.003+01:00

Click on painting for detail

Duet III - Acrylic on Watercolot paper - 17 x 23 each - $100 each - arttrip@live.com

Famous Artists as Nude Models in Body Paint

2011-09-25T11:57:00.004+01:00

more images via Flavorwire

Duet II - A Pair of Art Trip Paintings

2011-09-23T12:00:00.002+01:00

(click on image to enlarge)

Duet II ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 15 x 20 and 16 x 20 inches - $150 each - arttrip@live.com

Muses and Mistresses In Art History

2011-09-22T01:23:00.000+01:00

"Alice Ernestine Prin, nicknamed Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, became a nude model for sculptors when she was 14, posing for Alexander Calder and Jean Cocteau. She was the longtime mistress and muse of surrealist photographer Man Ray. Ernest Hemingway provided an introduction to her autobiography. Her defiant and sultry attitude helped define femininity in the 1920's. In hard times, she was reported to have said: "all I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of red [wine]; and I will always find somebody to offer me that."

More here

Duet I - Paintings of Art Trip

2011-09-21T12:28:00.003+01:00

Duet I ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 15 x 20 inches each - $125 each - arttrip@live.com

Groundbreaking Views of America

2011-09-21T01:18:00.000+01:00

Car Hops, Early Drive in Restaurant, Hollywood, California, 1935
John Gutmann (American, 1905–1998)

More at the Daily Beast

Ravi Coltrane at Black Rock

2011-09-19T01:32:00.001+01:00

Always good to be able to hear awesome jazz a few minutes from home. Ravi was tearing it up with:

Dave Gilmore - Guitar
Massimo Biolcati - Bass
EJ Strickland - Drums

A clip from a way early gig with Ravi and his mom Alice. Jazz royalty for sure!

And how he sounds today...from Newport 2011

From Wikipidia

Ravi Coltrane is the son of the legendary tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and jazz pianist Alice Coltrane. He is also cousin to experimental music producer Steven Ellison aka Flying Lotus. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, and was named after sitar player Ravi Shankar.

Ravi was two years old in 1967 when his father John Coltrane died. In 1986, he studied music, focusing on the saxophone at the California Institute of the Arts. Ravi has worked extensively with M-Base guru Steve Coleman, a significant influence on Ravi's own musical conception. Coltrane has played with Geri Allen, Kenny Barron, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Stanley Clarke, Branford Marsalis and others.

In 1997, after performing on over thirty recordings as a sideman, Ravi entered the studio to record his first album as leader Moving Pictures, working with drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts, bassist Lonnie Plaxico and pianist Michael Cain. This led to extensive touring with his working featuring Andy Milne on piano, drummer Steve Hass, and bassist Lonnie Plaxico. His second disc, From the Round Box (2000), finds Coltrane in the company of pianist Geri Allen, trumpeter Ralph Alessi, bassist James Genus, and drummer Eric Harland. Followed by Mad 6 (2002) his first release for Sony music, featuring drummer Steve Hass, pianist George Colligan, and bassist James Genus and In Flux (2005) he has been working with bassist Drew Gress, pianist Luis Perdomo, and drummer E.J. Strickland.

My Three-Way Incident - An Art Trip Painting

2011-09-18T01:08:00.000+01:00

My Three-Way Incident ~ Acrylic on Canvas - 24 x 36 inches - $500 - arttrip@live.com

My Three-Way Incident ~ Detail

My Three-Way Incident ~ Detail

Emotional Dimensionality and Departure - An Art Trip Painting

2011-09-18T01:06:00.001+01:00

Emotional Dimensionality and Departure - An Art Trip Painting ~ 22 X 28 inches - Acrylic on watercolor paper - $200 - arttrip@live.com

Grace Kelly at the Rosslyn Jazz Festival

2011-09-17T01:30:00.001+01:00

Went down to the Rosslyn Jazz Fest to catch Grace Kelly, the hot, wailing, 19 year old alto sax player that has strains of Bird...It's interesting to find her doing classic jazz and surprised that she is trying to 'pop' her music with a tune that she sang that sounded like a country song.

Not from the Rosslyn Jazz Festival, but this is her band and what they sound like.

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) VII

2011-09-16T01:48:00.000+01:00

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) VII ~ Pastel and Acrylic on watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches - $150 inches - arttrip@live.com

The apartment via Google maps...

Five paintings from the Museum of American Art

2011-09-14T11:23:00.008+01:00

George Inness

Edward Hopper

Grace Hartigan

Wayne Thiebaud

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) VI

2011-09-13T01:53:00.000+01:00

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) VI ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 24 x 24 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com

The apartment via Google maps...

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) V

2011-09-12T01:16:00.000+01:00

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) V - Acrylic on watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings

Amy Winehouse Memorialized With Topless Bronze Bust

2011-09-10T11:15:00.001+01:00

"I thought of her as a beautifully delicate fairytale princess, waiting to be rescued from fame and addiction, but her prince never came ... I had always expected to sculpt her portrait, but I was waiting for her to put some of her troubles behind her. She had made me pay attention to contemporary music again." ~ Daniel Edwards

via Jezebel

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) IV

2011-09-08T01:53:00.000+01:00

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) IV ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches - $200 inches - arttrip@live.com

The apartment via Google maps...

Portraits of an Elderly Superhero by Andreas Englund

2011-09-07T01:26:00.000+01:00

more here

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) III

2011-09-06T01:52:00.000+01:00

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) III ~ Acrylic on Watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches - $200

The apartment via Google maps...

Altered Paint by Number

2011-09-05T01:19:00.001+01:00

"Bumber By Number is an interactive and fully immersive Paint-by-Number art exhibit curated by Marlow Harris and JoDavid for the 2011 Bumbershoot Arts Festival. Bumber By Number features an interactive audience participatory paint-by-number homage to Edouard Manet's "The Picnic" ("Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe") by artist Ryan Feddersen. In addition, bask in the glory of Victoria BC artist Bill Blair's amazing life-size paint-by-number banners and guitars, and local Seattle artists create incredible canvases of altered vintage Paint-by-Numbers."

more at Bumber by Number

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) II

2011-09-04T01:52:00.000+01:00

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) II ~ Acrylic, photo on watercolor paper - 10 x 14 inches - $200 framed - more paintings

The apartment via Google maps...

De Kooning’s Fractured Genius

2011-09-03T01:09:00.001+01:00

De Kooning is my next favorite artist after Van Gogh....new show at MoMA

"De Kooning is one of our most famous artists. We’ve heard about his drinking and womanizing. Since 1974, we’ve noted his pictures’ record prices. And we’ve read plenty on his decline into dementia in the 1980s, and the paintings he kept making despite it. But we still don’t know what to do with his art. “The range of talent and innovation in de Kooning is similar to that of Cézanne,” said Richard Shiff, a great Cézanne scholar who is publishing a new book on de Kooning. John Elderfield, the MoMA show’s curator, writes that his painter embraces “difficulty, resistance, and ambiguity.”

via Newsweek

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) I - An Art Trip Painting

2011-09-02T22:06:00.000+01:00

She was the love of his life and he was obsessed with painting an apartment building (Kansas City) I - Acrylic on watercolor paper - 10 x 10 inches

The apartment via Google maps...

Joke vs Journey - An Art Trip Painting

2011-09-01T01:39:00.000+01:00

Joke vs Journey ~ Oil on Canvas - 24 x 36 inches

Joke vs Journey ~ detail

Peanuts Inspired Norah Jones Poster by Matt Leunig

2011-08-31T13:21:00.000+01:00

via Scraped Knee

Animated "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane

2011-08-28T01:21:00.000+01:00

I swear the notation looks as good as the music sounds...

Also check out this awesome animation of Giant Steps by Michal Levy

Departure - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-26T10:58:00.001+01:00

Departure ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 15 x 20 inches - $125 - Inquire arttrip@live.com - More paintings here

The painting must be destroyed...

2011-08-25T01:34:00.000+01:00

I really wanted to like this painting since I painting it outside in my garden, but alas, I don't like the way it turned out...

Acrylic on watercolor paper - 15 x 20 inches

I'm Diggin' Yellow

2011-08-24T11:10:00.001+01:00

Some works in progress...

Judith Klausner Creates Art Out Of Food

2011-08-23T01:06:00.000+01:00

Ah crap, I just ate that Oreo...I didn't know it was art, honest...

More images here

This painting has nothing to do with Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richrd Prince, Larry Gagosian or Jerry Saltz (but maybe Google will find it now)

2011-08-22T01:47:00.000+01:00

This painting has nothing to do with Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richrd Prince, Larry Gagosian or Jerry Saltz (but maybe Google will find it now)~ Acrylic on Canvas - 60 x 72 inches

Okay, you stole that awesome painting from the musuem...

2011-08-21T01:01:00.000+01:00

...now what do you do with it? Now you know!

"The consensus in the media is that there’s no market for stolen art. Not so!"

“I’ve met with fences from all over the world,” said Christopher Marinello, executive director of the Art Loss Register in London. “People who will buy stolen art from you on five percent of its value and then try to move it on. Once it goes into the underworld, criminals will trade stolen artwork. We’ve found evidence that stolen art is used in the trade for international terrorism, exchanged for guns and weapons, things like that.”

Full article here

Sensetive Landscape with Useless Morphism (Greece) - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-20T12:04:00.001+01:00

Sensetive Landscape with Useless Morphism (Greece) - Acrylic on paper - 22 x 30 inches - $250 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Huichol Indian bead-dazzled Volkswagen Beetle

2011-08-19T01:12:00.000+01:00

Wow!!

via Boing Boing

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this II - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-18T10:31:00.000+01:00

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this II - Acrylic on Paper - 20 x 35 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com

Paintings available for sale here

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow - Anselm Kiefer

2011-08-17T01:16:00.000+01:00

Sophie Fiennes' highly unconventional documentary "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow" takes you inside the symbolic and apocalyptic world of German artist Anselm Kiefer, who has spent almost 20 years building a dreamlike city to house his paintings in the south of France.

Review here

More clips here

Supposed Continuation - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-16T01:03:00.000+01:00

Supposed Continuation - Acrylic on Watercolor paper - 22 x 30 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Van Gogh - The Fine Print

2011-08-15T01:57:00.001+01:00

It funny how Van Gogh always looks good no matter what the presentation...done by repeating Genius in very fine print.

via Huy Lam

Three-Way Incident - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-14T01:26:00.000+01:00

My Three-Way Incident ~ Acrylic on Canvas - 24 x 36 inches

My Three-Way Incident ~ Detail

Three-Way Incident ~ Acrylic on Canvaws - 24 x 36 inches - $500 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

The Art Market is less Ethical than the Stock Market

2011-08-13T01:34:00.000+01:00

Can only be described as fascinating if somewhat removed from my reality.

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this

2011-08-12T01:40:00.000+01:00

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this I - Acrylic on Paper - 22 x 30 inch - $200 - arttrip@live.com

Whenever I want to do a minimal painting I get the heebee-jeebees and end up with something like this I (detail)

Paintings for sale here

Jesus Painting Found in Motor Home

2011-08-11T01:02:00.000+01:00

This is pretty cool....

"Praise Frosty! That's the name of the 73-year-old man who had a priceless portrait of Jesus Christ sitting in the closet of his Tennessee motor home."

"The painting, which has been missing for 150 years, was based on the "Veil of Veronica" — according to legend, a sweat cloth that a Jesus groupie dabbed upon his face right before his crucifixion, imprinting his likeness into it and imbuing it with magical powers. It's therefore thought to be an actual painting of Jesus Christ's face."

Full story here

Effective Apparition of Modular Shape - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-10T01:11:00.000+01:00

Effective Apparition of Modular Shape - Acrylic on paper - 20 x 27 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Arty Bollock Generator

2011-08-09T01:42:00.001+01:00

Where was this when I needed it in art school????

Generate some art bollocks

Future of Desire in Development - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-08T01:01:00.000+01:00

"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost" ~ Arthur Miller

Future of Desire in Development - Acrylic on Paper - 22 x 30 inch - $200 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Why Creative People Are So Vain

2011-08-07T01:04:00.001+01:00

Don't know how much of this I believe, but it is a good read.

"A new study shows that while highly creative people may be more open-minded than regular joes, they also tend to be more arrogant."

"According to MSNBC, psychologists subjected 1,300 college students to "a personality test and various creativity questionnaires." Of the six personality traits they looked at, they found that openness to new experiences was most strongly correlated with creativity. Extroversion and creativity were also linked. However, creative people were somewhat less likely to be humble. Says study author Paul Silvia, "Our research didn't find a huge effect, and we certainly aren't claiming that all creative people are insufferably arrogant but, on average, people with a lot of creative accomplishments were less humble and modest." Silvia explains that a little arrogance in creative people could be a good thing, allowing them to withstand the constant criticism that comes with their vocation. But overly arrogant people may have trouble learning and improving."

via Jezebel

Trancendental Shade under Construction - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-06T11:18:00.001+01:00

Trancendental Shade under Construction - Acrylic on Paper - 22 x 30 inch - $200 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Realistic Hand Paintings

2011-08-05T01:50:00.001+01:00

These are pretty cool.

More here

Pittsburgh's Bleeding Color (Polish Mourning ) II - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-04T12:00:00.001+01:00

Pittsburgh's Bleeding Color (Polish Mourning ) II - Acrylic on Canvas - 16 x 20 inch - $150 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

The 50 Things Every Creative Shoud Know

2011-08-03T01:41:00.000+01:00

My favorite, "Get out of the studio"

The other 49 are here

She was the love of his life and he became obsessed with painting apartment buildings (Kansas City) - An Art Trip Painting

2011-08-02T01:14:00.000+01:00

She was the love of his life and he became obsessed with painting apartment buildings (Kansas City) - Acrylic on Paper - 22 x 30 inch - $200 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Paintings for sale here

Photographer Daniela Edburg

2011-08-01T01:36:00.001+01:00

"Daniela’s work addresses a world on the verge of destruction on both the micro and macro level. Using jolting imagery, wit and and beautifully crafted scenes the user is is invited on a journey takes us from shock to sympathy. Her photography beautifully surface the ills of modern society and the it’s never ending production of reckless ego’s feeding on self destructive behavior. She makes the warning clear, if we are willing to accept the message."

Full article via The Dirt Floor

Atotmic Picnic

Death by Sweetner, Photography by Daniela Edburg
Death by Slim Fast,

Death by Oreos

Superficial Ellipse in Aspic - An Art Trip Painting

2011-07-31T10:13:00.000+01:00

Superficial Ellipse in Aspic - Acrylic on Paper - 22 x 30 inch - $200 - arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Back to the Future - Irina Werning

2011-07-30T01:20:00.000+01:00

Fantastic time photos by Irina Werning.

More photos here

Damn Mosquitoes I - An Art Trip Painting

2011-07-29T01:21:00.000+01:00

Damn Mosquitoes I ~ acrylic on watercolor paper - 20 x 35 inch - $200 - inquire at arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Beatles Photographs From Their American Debut Head To Christie's

2011-07-28T01:22:00.000+01:00

"Photographer Mike Mitchell was only 18 when he received a presspass to document the Beatles as they arrived in Washington D.C.'s Union Station to perform their first concert in the country. For almost 50 years the photographs from that historical moment in Beatlemania had been gathering dust in Mitchell's basement -- until he became a victim of the U.S. housing crisis. It was then that the photographer decided to dig them out and approach Christie's about auctioning the black-and-white pictures."

via Huffington Post

An Art Trip Mashup

2011-07-27T01:12:00.000+01:00

Background paintings by Art Trip

Yoga by Shiva Rea

Amy Winehouse - RIJ (Rest in Jazz)

2011-07-26T01:57:00.000+01:00

You forget how grounded in jazz Amy was. I liked her pop stuff good enough but she was an amazing jazz singer ...

Teach Me Tonight

Someone To Watch Over Me

Lullaby of Birdland

I will not title this painting, Two Trees in a Park In Fall (Everyone loves Magritte) II

2011-07-25T01:16:00.000+01:00

I will not title this painting, Two Trees in a Park In Fall (Everyone loves Magritte) II - Acrylic on Canvas - 16 x 18 inches - $150 - Inquire at arttrip@live.com

Lucian Freud - RIP (Rest in Paint)

2011-07-24T01:04:00.000+01:00

Obit here

Themed Sand Sculptures At Latvian Sand Sculpture Festival

2011-07-23T01:43:00.000+01:00

I love sand sculptures. These are awesome!

Son of a Double Beach II - An Art Trip Painting

2011-07-22T01:37:00.000+01:00

Sun of a Double Beach II - Acrylic on paper - 20 x 35 inches - $200 - Inquire at arttrip@live.com - More paintings here

Marilyn Monroe Sculpture In Chicago

2011-07-21T01:16:00.001+01:00

“Forever Marilyn”, a 26′ tall Marilyn Monroe sculpture created by Seward Johnson has been unveiled on The Magnificent Mile in Chicago. The statue imortalizes Marilyn’s famous scene in the 1955 Billy Wilder film The Seven Year Itch."

Yikes! I would have loved to scratch that itch!!

via the Laughing Squid

Son Of A Double Beach I - An Art Trip Painting

2011-07-20T01:12:00.000+01:00

Sun of a Double Beach I - Acrylic on paper - 20 x 35 inches - $200 - email:arttrip@live.com - more paintings here

Surfing Sin City With Ashley Bickerton

2011-07-19T01:18:00.001+01:00

"Ashley Bickerton has darkened his timbre after carousing the neon-lit nights of Pan-Asian hotspots. He says that he's entered a new phase - his kids have grown, he's newly separated, and as such, work follows life. He tells me that a while back it was filled with: "Pregnant wives and giggling babies. My work was full of sun-dappled, sparkling, turquoise blue waters, beauty and optimism. And somehow, now we are in this dark neon wilderness."
via Huffington Post

I Feel Itchy Inside - An Art Trip Painting

2011-07-18T01:38:00.000+01:00

I Feel Itchy Inside - Acrylic on watercolor paper - 24 X 30 inches - $200 - arttrip@live.com - More paintings here

Sonny Fortune at the Bohemian Caverns

2011-07-17T01:21:00.000+01:00

The awesome and animated and intense alto player with the local talent.

Perceptive Meditative Departure

2011-07-16T14:11:00.001+01:00

Perceptive Meditative Departure ~ Acrylic on watercolor paper - 18 x 24 inches

Tyson Grumm's 'Dream #84' At Obsolete Gallery In Venice

2011-07-15T12:44:00.003+01:00

"Tyson Grumm's painting, "Dream #84," for which his upcoming exhibition is named, is a memorable centerpiece for the show. An elephant fitted with an umbrella seems to swing its leaden legs through the air, unconcerned that it's floating. In the background, the Hagia Sophia stands, partly obscured by trees, and a water tower appears stenciled or graffitied to a wall in the foreground."

"The exhibition, which presents a series of dreams Grumm has adapted to the canvas, are composed first by the artist's unconscious and then refined and developed with the brush. Grumm says he "often wonder[s] if my subconscious already knows what the painting looks like, and controls my brushstrokes like a puppeteer."

Via Huffington Post

Painting the Backyard - Jai Jai Sunlight

2011-07-14T01:54:00.000+01:00