During ww2 thousands of American soldiers risked their lives to tag ”Kilroy was Here” in some dangerous situations behind enemy lines.I first heard of Kilroy from an old movie called Kelly’s Heroes featuring some unhinged GI’s most notably Donald Sutherland as a tank operator. I think the spirit that animated these soldiers to bend orders [...]
Betty Caithness is an American decorative artist whose depictions of colonial America represent an iconic reference point for legions of decorative painters. The reproducing of her work through the purchase of pattern packets has always presented a challenge to these painters.Most can never seem to capture to subtle lighting details and arrive at a close [...]
Few products incite such passion,authenticity, radical and sometimes dysfunctional behavior as the quality paints and mediums from Jo Sonja’s.There was the lady several years ago who sat in the aisle pounding her fists into the carpet because we had not received Textile medium after an employee gave her false hopes on the phone. Also, on [...]
In doing research on the Van Gogh counterfeit market, I stumbled onto a web site called Art Conversation Forum. Reality is better than fiction This morning, I was cleaning out a corner in the basement of a rental unit in Pittsburgh and found an absolutely filthy painting in what appeared to be a museum-quality frame, [...]
I was chatting with indy filmaker Mike Lewis last week at Studio Backstage on the subject of what at the time seemed to be incoherent and bizarre Dada influenced offshoots of the pre-war period.The list included Robert Johnson and Franz Kafka.Both made artistic contributions that seemed to follow no given genre existing at the time.( [...]
The Cabaret Voltaire was an avant-garde group of artist/intellectuals who performed at a bar of the same name in Zurich at the height of the Great War. I viewed some images of anti-Hitler artwork produced by the Berlin school so to speak of the Cabaret Voltaire and the posters and paintings are very modern and [...]
Watching airbrush maestro Alex Hansen at work bodypainting two females at once and seeing the finished product led me to conlude in part that the thrill of being a human canvas must go far back in time to a form of pagan ritual or something profoundly tribal in our genetic make-up.That the work itself is [...]
