tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post3378735128662442189..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Bougereau and his import for non establishment painters of today.Stapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-11638284743384175862011-12-29T16:06:43.227-05:002011-12-29T16:06:43.227-05:00I went to art school in Boston (Mass Art) in the e...I went to art school in Boston (Mass Art) in the early 1980's, and I can really identify with your comments. It's weird, though, because we had George Nick as a painting instructor... I didn't study painting there at all (I was a sculpture major). Now I'm a full time illustrator, and whenever I talk to other illustrators they condemn Modern Art, and look to what they call the "Old Masters" as having all the answers they need (they tend to lump together academic painting across a period of a couple hundred years).<br /><br />As a side note, I happen to have featured Bougereau's Nymphs and Satyrs on my blog a few months back. I don't know what he could have been on when he painted that.Chris Beatricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02801244582928889372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-84999983700679897912011-09-12T13:05:02.252-04:002011-09-12T13:05:02.252-04:00There is a painting in the San Antonio Museum of a...There is a painting in the San Antonio Museum of art by Bougereau named Admiration. It is the only piece of art I've been going to the museum to see for a few months now.Rafael Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02090848181700852231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-84805278190721560862009-04-12T18:11:00.000-04:002009-04-12T18:11:00.000-04:00What's the deal with Alex Katz.Beats me I never li...What's the deal with Alex Katz.<BR/>Beats me I never liked his work.<BR/>It's naive drawing to me. <BR/>All those badly drawn heads.<BR/>I guess that's the deal, the emperors new clothes syndrome.<BR/> <BR/>To be honest I don't think to much about this as it gets me kind of pissed off. I would rather look at a Sargent than Alex Katz any day of the week. Life is to short to even think about Alex Katz. <BR/><BR/>Sorry about the typos...jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-86238481969348247482009-04-12T13:45:00.000-04:002009-04-12T13:45:00.000-04:00Jeff:But, whats the deal with Alex Katz?My first d...Jeff:<BR/><BR/>But, whats the deal with Alex Katz?<BR/><BR/>My first day of art school we filled the classroom with inflated trash bags. I wanted to be Jan Van Goyen...StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-32718016942801988122009-04-12T13:42:00.000-04:002009-04-12T13:42:00.000-04:00Jeremy;I wonder where they will eventually settle ...Jeremy;<BR/><BR/>I wonder where they will eventually settle out. I think I may have missed my chance.I have a nice poster. The Minneapolis Museum recently got rid of theirs. I will bet they live to regret that.<BR/>................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-15071304196705629202009-04-12T13:37:00.000-04:002009-04-12T13:37:00.000-04:00Mike:Work is the curse of the painting classes. If...Mike:<BR/><BR/>Work is the curse of the painting classes. <BR/><BR/>If you have never seen the Nymphs and Satyrs it as an experience. There are lots of good paintings,but that one is in another category......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-81723499703578760352009-04-12T12:03:00.000-04:002009-04-12T12:03:00.000-04:00It's kind of funny that Jeff Koons is buying Bouge...It's kind of funny that Jeff Koons is buying Bougereau's. What does that tell you. He also employs atelier trained or realist painters to make his work. <BR/><BR/>Bougereau'spainting 'Nymphs and Satyr' at the Clark Institute of Art in Williamstown, MA has been mentioned, I try to make a pilgrimage every year just to see this and other great paintings in what has to be one of the best collection of great paintings in a small museum anywhere.<BR/><BR/>I can't add to your comments on modernism, which has been the death of art education in this country.<BR/>I went to Mass Art and I can't begin to tell you the complete BS that I heard every day in that place from painting teachers. <BR/><BR/>They had this drawing class in which they had a model but not one person was was drawing the figure. The drawings all looked like weird scribbles that some 5 year old would do. This was the idea, to draw the energy and express this. I kid you not. <BR/><BR/>I think the reason fro the explosion in ateliers and schools like The Florance Academy is a reaction to this kind of absurd education based on the politics of modernity and now is fulled post-modern angst. That's why you see students doing dumb things like hanging up dead pigs and running around in their underwear with a cape like some 6 year old playing at being a super hero. (this was a thesis show at BU last year that got the praise of all the local curators)<BR/><BR/>Ok I have to stop now. This subject makes my blood pressure go up.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-8030178955950655442009-04-12T02:20:00.000-04:002009-04-12T02:20:00.000-04:00Bougereau's stuff is starting to really get big bu...Bougereau's stuff is starting to really get big bucks in auctions too. People are finally appreciating his skill.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-49696309810947001962009-04-12T01:50:00.000-04:002009-04-12T01:50:00.000-04:00Stape,My workplace computer wallpaper is Bougereau...Stape,<BR/><BR/>My workplace computer wallpaper is Bougereau's 'Song of the Angels' that is at the Forest Lawn Glendale Museum. I got the image from Art Renewal Center and tweaked out the several blemishes from small reflections in the image with Paint and then let Windows chose the center part for my wallpaper. I absolutely love the color of the linen robes the angels wear and the blue of the virgin's robe. I consider it one of the greatest paintings ever. I hope that I can go see it someday.<BR/><BR/>The other Bougereau that I plan to see this summer is 'Nymphs and Satyr' at the Clark Institute of Art in Williamstown, MA on my way out to the Cape this summer. <BR/><BR/>That man could paint.<BR/><BR/>MikeMike Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15082719206861489635noreply@blogger.com