"Good artists borrow.Great artists steal." Picasso                   All diamonds are Blood Diamonds., 400 years of slavery and global debt buyout pretty slick .Huh!      Yup! that’s Miro and whatzhisname?, James Havard, so what both are Kitsch! no? Like the diamond, it all depends on having the client that thinks it has value       and expoliting that faith. That is belives and buys.                                                                  1. Miro Copyright ©      James Havard.Copyright © 1976.Flat Head River. Acrylic on canvas   Who knew Copyright ©  Charles Mingus III 2006 2. James Havard.Copyright © 1976. Flat Head River. Acrylic on canvas Three of my favorite pictures and artist together I cant really say why... James Harvard’s work is shiny and matt rough and smooth abstractions flashing real life.  I first saw this kind of work as a kind of commercial formalism I guess it was at Allan Stone's Gallery at 86th St. because it looked too easy to paint two pictures one on top of the other this artist is a better painter than Miro if that is possible. A different sensibility about the paint, the paintings are about the paint what it can do. Miro more or less doodled and smeared colors inside lines of shapes he drew like a sign painter his best effect was the child like fictive space we all can imagine to be both eternal summer and beaches as well as interiors and shabby beautiful walls. (He drew on his canvas with a pencil like a sign painter would do before he painted the shapes? So much for surrealist dreams & the genius of spontaneity or supreme confidence.) Say anything you want, intent has nothing to do with painting, skill is clearly not essential having something to say is not the point painting is not meaning. Like it or not, the things people say when they "Must have a work of art" have nothing really to do with any thing more than an appropriation of relevance.There are some very brilliant people who put together some spectacular and peculiarly empty efforts not naming names you know who you are. All time is winding down in painting it is a good strategy for killing time, the capital concept. Don’t think, it kills painting. Painting is about paint. Making pictures is different than painting. Pictures are about content. Language ideas & words are nor paint, don’t mistake words for paint. You can use a camera to make a picture "take a picture" or whatever. Narrative, I was just today watching this brilliant pianist actually a film of an alleged brilliant dead pianist when he was brilliantly and thought of him as if he were alive today and wondered what if this guy weren’t ever filmed would people believe he was as good as he makes it look, like he is playing (at preforming the act of playing the piano.) To think this subjectively " this guy was a genius" or he seems to act like a genius. His long fingers delicately dance his drawing his body against the piano keys as if he were having sex with the polished wood. This guy was playing a peace written 100s of years ago as if he wrote it just then, tentatively or more precisely he acted as if he just thought of it at that precise moment and for a brief moment there he appeared to be two people one listening and enjoying, enraptured, enthralled with what he was playing almost applauding himself with his temporally free hand waving him self on encouragingly with vain swan like gawkward grace, then he realizes what he was doing (what he was about) almost stumbles his finger and captures himself draws up into himself and frowned that he had to get back to work and use both of his hands. (All of his brain.) Beautiful!! Beautiful!! Bravo!! Bravo!! (Thank god for TV.) All a little to mystical and self conscious to do more than once a year. I guess that’s why I prefer paint it can’t lie, not to the inner eye. Not to the heart. Not even to the head, for Christ sake Jan Vamere used a fucking camera obscura and projected the images onto the canvas and had bunches of assistants cranking out his masterpieces .Lets see ea-too Salvador Dalli photo collage I thought he painted that crap. There are people who will copy any public domain "Classic", that is cheaper than purchasing a high quality full color photographic print these days , so take your pick you can hire a real person to paint any thing you want or can imagine and resell it as many name artist have already done from time in memoriam. Or pick one of the many rules and break it. Don’t think, it kills painting. Painting is about paint. Painting is physical. Seeing is about mentality digesting dissecting measuring automatically adapting to the world Painting is not talking about painting. Paint in your best cloths that way you will take care not to splatter and waist paint. Buy some whole Squid for its Squid ink bladderand make your own ink (sepia) and paint on acid free paper using a brush and later a fine nibs pen why fake that with a computer keep the work small and do details of things actual size draw a seed or a bunch of orange seeds or patch of skin on a apple or a object small enough to fit on your desk using a lamp change the lighting do gestures and landscapes in the park on the side of a road get lost in looking at the world use both sides of the brain equally switch them its fun to do.— Polonius    http://mingus.charlesmingus3art.com/the-mind-switch-notes-_155.html            8.5 "X 11 .5" Acrylic Enamel Wax Graphite on Paper. Who knew Copyright © Charles Mingus III 2006 Mandalas : Mandala means "circle" in Sanskrit. Mandalas sometimes symbolize the universe as well as the natural perfection and harmony in nature. Tibetan monks create sand mandalas symbolizing the residence of Enlightened Beings in order to help people imagine the vast and profound enlightened state. They are also used as meditational aids. http://www.loselmaitribuddhist.org/index.html One summer I painted a series of works which resulted in about 20 paintings and drawings over a period of three years in an attempt to "loosen up" from the strictly abstract highly structured precision water colors on high gloss clay coated cover stock called Mandalas they were small works under 10 "x 10" and glossy. Visitors to the exhibition would ask me "Why don’t you show the actual paintings ?"and "What size is the original"? They mostly mistook them for photos of much bigger paintings and I guess sort of resented the small scale. I made nothing of it untill now. The paintings were a collection of the residue of watercolors pigments transparency and that is a result of the scale of the wet to dry effect overlaid on a porcelain like white substrate of high gloss clay coated cover stock ( I even used sheets of polymer treated anodised alumunum )  I mad thousands of paintings for about 15 years some  ( 2 or 3 stacks of paintings about 3 feet high I became an expert at painting targets and  Mandalas ) I have kept out of the sun for 20 years and at some point I will make Limited Edition Archival prints, no one can say the waited 20 years to finish a painting project but I set this collection aside to save it for a time when I could reproduce them at any scale as accurately and as brightly as Photography and digital printing can do combined.                                                                                                                 "Time seed 0" Published by the Museum Of Modern Art  that is the only way that it can be done click on Mandalas Page Link  to the left to see some more of the paintings.   Anyway back to the paintings I did to "Let Go" of the photo precision hand eye exercise of targets & Mandalas paintings. I called the new work Nocturne’s and showed them at the Allan Stone Gallery on 86 th St. without any thought or reference to either of these artist thinking the "Nocturne Series" was completely original. It was my goal was to create a series of imagined spaces and compositions with elements of drawn and painted nonobjective components it works sort of like music, open ended free from any preconception or desired result free  of thinking about subject mater free of symbols or icon or language free, no narrative or rumination free of nostalgia a WIZIWYG picture that "look otherwise printed" were constructed of preselected elements not symbols of anything I think it was a little ritual a little bit art project making a kind of kit which could allow me to combine many permutations of texture space color scale mass line in a rectilinear frame reading from left to right without a boundary or real space shapes lines colors like words or random sounds in a box like listening to noise occur in time recording that and "editing" it picking the best occurrence or accident saving it framing it drawing on it just enough to keep it fluid. Now I am doing the opposite all symbolic all the time CGI can free you from thinking almost as completely as painting and drawing does. CM3                                                                                                                    FROUNTCOVER4KEPHRAU2s.jpg [I will sort this out later ED] http://artinfo.com/ Some more links to James Harvard - Artist, Art - James Harvard James Harvard: AskART art price guide for James Harvard and 52000+ American artists - James Harvard art prices, value art, art appraisal, antique roadshow, ... http://www.askart.com/askart/h/james_harvard/james_harvard.aspx - http://www.155.247.166.60/pharmacy/art_18.jpg http://www.lowegallery.com/james_harvard/italian-road-rally.html http://www.lowegallery.com/artists.html Chippewa #322 Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/ArtistKeywords.aspx?artist=128632 http://www.lowegallery.com/main.html kevin sonmor atlanta : 3 november - 31 december 2006 kevin sonmor There are moments that break into our world, eyeblinks of images that make their ingress from a realm we somehow know but that lies beyond our normal lives - images we recall only in dreams, in reveries, in memories of what we could not possibly remember. In some way, we recognize the feel of that realm - the strange sense of a profound sadness - when we are shown the calligraphy of broken plaster on an aging wall, the heavy folds of falling fabric possessing a richness greater than drapery can encase, or fruit that poses as if by will, as if by whim, for its portrait in still life. We reach back to that deep color in painted images seemingly rich with age and the August feel that age is for, images laden with the stature of endurance, heavy with the soft hush of austerity, flush in their suggestiveness with the condensed energy of a living tradition. It is most in art that we recall a place we have no reason to know. From Still lives Painted: The Paintings of Kevin Sonmor by Mark Daniel Cohen http://www.lowegallery.com/LOWE_GALLERY.html Just paint http://www.lowegallery.com/michael_david/index.html New Work October 2006 Chorten Tibetan for the basis of offering A Buddhist reliquary - the spiritual monument michael david coming to atlanta january 19 http://www.lowegallery.com/michael_david/index.htmlJames Hrvard http://www.askart.com/askart/h/james_harvard/james_harvard.aspx

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Yup! that’s Miro and what’s his name?, James Harvard King of air brushed drop shadow paint about paint stroke, so what both are Kitsch!
No? Like the diamond, it all depends on having the client that thinks it has value and exploiting that faith. That is believes (it has value) and buys.
I learned a lot of unsentimental esthetic stuff from seeing his work although many believe the work is some how at least as metaphysical as that
of Miro's


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       Artist statement. All diamonds are Blood Diamonds. 400 years of slavery and global debt buyout pretty slick. Hua!

Yup! that’s Miro and whatzhisname?, James Havard, so what both are Kich!
Art by now no? Like the diamond, it all depends on having the client that thinks it has
value and exploiting that faith. That is the client believes its worth what ever the seller
says and buys it and what’s more unlike Diamonds you more than likely can sell art in
the future for far more then the original purchase price tried to do that with your diamonds.
http://nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur/Publications.html