 Sketch of Mimi After reading the art 2: blog, Teaching with Rochelle Feinstein by Joe Fusaro, http://blog.art21.org/2011/04/20/teaching-with-rochelle-feinstein, I searched through some of my very old sketchbooks and came across from notes, and sketches. While I don't think I will use the abandoned art as suggested in the art 2: blog – I found some notes and a few insignificant thumbnails sketches I thought I'd share. Although I wrote these notes down, they are not my words but the words of various art professors who will remain nameless, because I cannot recall who said what during various art classes from years ago. Neither can I remember what I might have thought at the time that these words were being spoken, but I did indeed write them down perhaps because I thought them valid, or because I thought them odd. Who knows? What I do know is that as I looked through them today, I found some to be rather narrow-minded, but amusing nevertheless. ART: It's passionate quality lies in the subject matter as well as the very dramatic use of light and dark. REALISM: Historically, abstract and realism do not work together. All realism deals with random, an extension of random is everyday. Realists (most) must understand what they're drawing. They know their range and are not inventive. They accept the world that they live in, often homebodies. Realists give people something they can draw from, something tangible. MARKS & COLOR: Consider consistency in your marks, i.e, soft marks, fluid marks, hard marks. White does not bridge, it separates. Consider using red – it stops. Or yellow, it slows down. Black does not represent "real". DRAWING & SKETCHING: Don't throw away your sketches. Consider using elements of drawings that worked in other drawings. The faster you work, the more likely you are to capture expression. Perspective does not exist in reality – it was created to give illusion. One point perspective in less dynamic than two point perspective. When drawing a room, never use the edge of paper to divide a room. Renaissance – worm's eye, Impressionism – eye level, Contemporary – bird's eye. ARTISTS: Baldessari: conceptual artist - deals with everyday phenomena https://artsy.net/artist/john-baldessari Caravaggio: realist painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio Claudio Bravo: hyper-realist painter http://www.claudiobravo.com/en_biography_1.html Martin Puryear: sculptor http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/28 Diego Velázquez: painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez John Singer Sargent: painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent Joseph Cornell: sculptor http://www.josephcornellbox.com Hieronymous Bosch: painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch Alice Neel: painter http://www.aliceneel.com/gallery Hollis Sigler: Chicago http://www.hammergallery.com/artists/Sigler/sigler.htm Lucien Freud: English http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/freud Seymour Rosofsky: Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Rosofsky  Thumbnails from An Old Sketchbook.
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Years ago while visiting family in Mexico City, I went to the Palacio de Bellas Artes where they had a fabulous exhibit of contemporary Mexican artists. I enjoyed the exhibit tremendously – it was great stuff, no doubt, but I cannot recall the names of any of the exhibiting artists. However, what I do remember vividly from that visit to the museum was the name of Juan de Dios Machain, a late 19th century Mexican photographer known for his post-mortem photographs of children. His photographs were not on display; they were in an Artes de Mexico issue entitled El Arte Ritual de la Muerte Niña, Numero 15, Primavera 1992. I found the photographs so evocative that I bought, the now tattered, and partially unbound issue of Artes de Mexico (seen below are two from that edition). The photographs were initially disturbing, yet they compelled me to look at a subject matter, most often considered morbid, in a very different light – not as morbid, but as beautiful surrender. So moved by his photographs that I began a series that addressed death – the ultimate surrender, and the death of children, which later evolved into loss of childhood. The paintings were monochromatic and painted on canvas using thinned out oil paint – all inspired by Juan de Dios Machain's photographs.  These two small paintings are from my Angelita Series, Oil on Canvas (Private Collections)
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