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De Kooning: An American Master – Book Review
Thanks to Skip Whitcomb for recommending this comprehensive and vivid biography of De Kooning: An American Master, ten years in the making and published in 2006 . Carl Judson’s review follows. DE KOONING (1904-1997) I just finished an extraordinary biography … Continue reading
What Painting Is
The book What Painting Is, by James Elkins, examines the actual process of creating an image by putting paint (“Water and stones”) on canvas. He compares this endeavor to the ancient practice of alchemy, which (like painting) involves experimenting with materials in … Continue reading
A Guerrilla Painter’s Notebook
We’ve published a compilation of Carl Judson’s essays, A Guerrilla Painter’s Notebook, and it’s available on Carl’s new website for only $6.00 (includes shipping and handling). Michael Chesley Johnson says, “Over the years, Carl has traveled a bit – Bermuda, … Continue reading
Book Review – Inventing the Landscape by Richard Crozier
The cover painting obviously contains a big dose of imagination, but most of this book (5/6 of its pages) is about painting from life. Evidently, if you want to invent the landscape, you need to study it first. And if … Continue reading
Book Review – An Artist’s Book of Excuses
We discovered a great new product at the National Art Materials trade show in May: a spiral-bound (take it in the field with you) guidebook written by artist and Soltek Easel inventor Jim Wilcox. Illustrated with cartoons by his friend … Continue reading
