Rendition of a Song - YouTube:
http://chumly.com/n/1e0066f
More Signal than Noise, Mic in August Hand, Beautiful Signals uttered I; Dog training under the Northern Lights, Aurora Abnormalis.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Friday, July 5, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The Eerie Letter
You went to buy stamps and mail a letter. You came back home with a letter but no stamps. What happened?
http://chumly.com/n/1d9817e
http://chumly.com/n/1d9817e
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
And by cause that the labourers supposed that hit had not ben trouthe abode stylle at theyr laboure wherfore the wulf dyd ete the sheep.
For men bileue not lyghtly hym whiche is knowen for a lyer.
http://chumly.com/n/1d6bfbc
For men bileue not lyghtly hym whiche is knowen for a lyer.
http://chumly.com/n/1d6bfbc
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Double Whammy as Bloomsday and Father's Day Fall on Same Day
Happy Bloomsday! Happy Father's Day! I made a small portrait of James Joyce many years ago and ended up including it in a collage. He was one of my spiritual fathers as far as being a writer goes.
http://chumly.com/n/1d395cb
http://chumly.com/n/1d395cb
Saturday, June 15, 2013
The Genesis of The History-Painting, circa 2001
07/27/01 3:53:11 PM
L. bought me a canvas, a Masonite board, a 6x8, I think, and I need to find out what to paint on it. To do this I need to find out what’s been on my mind lately. Well, I’ve been reading a lot. I read ‘Formal and Transcendental Logic’ by Edmund Husserl, so I have a bit of formal ontology fresh in my mind. Added to that is a book I just finished called ‘Art History’s History’ by Vernon Hyde Minor, published in 1994. That took me through all the ages of art history, and should be useful for a painting. I want there to be perspective, proportion. What are important icons in art history? How can I paint art history onto a canvas? I could stick with an abstraction and just give it tons of depths, fields, planes, all of the above. I want perhaps to stick to white and black, just make a Borduas-like historical painting. I could throw in some green and yellow or red. What would be the appropriate colors to use? What are the present colors in my consciousness? [colors present] The incipience of forms. Forms moving onto the plane of formal existence. The birth of art history. I have to think about this.
07/27/01 5:21:26 PM
Concerning the painting, so far I have a white background in acrylic. Form, painting. There’s something to be said right there, regarding forms and the art of painting. What exists between me and the painting? What do me and the painting possibly make together? What forms can I project onto the canvas from my unconscious or from my imagination? I’d like to paint a rhetorical figure, irony or something, maybe I’ll finally paint my first allegory.
07/27/01 8:17:19 PM
I decided to paint an allegory of history in red, yellow, and black squares floating over a disjointed white surface. Each square is a construction, or a discursive formation of sorts. The concept isn’t all figured out yet. But the painting, well, it’s pretty much finished, although I only worked 20 minutes on it. I’ll let it dry and work some more on it next week. The concept I will work on till then and maybe I can do a series of works and call it all ‘The Allegory of History’. It’s the allegory of history because I’m calling it history, and it’s an allegory because the discursive formations are separate and floating in empty space, or in a gridlock. Another allegory of history could be the portrait of a man, but a man who is all broken up. In history we have synchronies and diachronies. Each can be painted. A synchrony in painting is translated as a mosaic. That’s what I tried to make, but each piece of the mosaic is just an abstraction; I could have made them portraits, and at heart I wanted to make copies of famous paintings and call it the allegory of art history. That I’ll do on a bigger canvas. I’ll really concentrate on the space between the squares or rectangles.
http://chumly.com/n/1d31f9e
L. bought me a canvas, a Masonite board, a 6x8, I think, and I need to find out what to paint on it. To do this I need to find out what’s been on my mind lately. Well, I’ve been reading a lot. I read ‘Formal and Transcendental Logic’ by Edmund Husserl, so I have a bit of formal ontology fresh in my mind. Added to that is a book I just finished called ‘Art History’s History’ by Vernon Hyde Minor, published in 1994. That took me through all the ages of art history, and should be useful for a painting. I want there to be perspective, proportion. What are important icons in art history? How can I paint art history onto a canvas? I could stick with an abstraction and just give it tons of depths, fields, planes, all of the above. I want perhaps to stick to white and black, just make a Borduas-like historical painting. I could throw in some green and yellow or red. What would be the appropriate colors to use? What are the present colors in my consciousness? [colors present] The incipience of forms. Forms moving onto the plane of formal existence. The birth of art history. I have to think about this.
07/27/01 5:21:26 PM
Concerning the painting, so far I have a white background in acrylic. Form, painting. There’s something to be said right there, regarding forms and the art of painting. What exists between me and the painting? What do me and the painting possibly make together? What forms can I project onto the canvas from my unconscious or from my imagination? I’d like to paint a rhetorical figure, irony or something, maybe I’ll finally paint my first allegory.
07/27/01 8:17:19 PM
I decided to paint an allegory of history in red, yellow, and black squares floating over a disjointed white surface. Each square is a construction, or a discursive formation of sorts. The concept isn’t all figured out yet. But the painting, well, it’s pretty much finished, although I only worked 20 minutes on it. I’ll let it dry and work some more on it next week. The concept I will work on till then and maybe I can do a series of works and call it all ‘The Allegory of History’. It’s the allegory of history because I’m calling it history, and it’s an allegory because the discursive formations are separate and floating in empty space, or in a gridlock. Another allegory of history could be the portrait of a man, but a man who is all broken up. In history we have synchronies and diachronies. Each can be painted. A synchrony in painting is translated as a mosaic. That’s what I tried to make, but each piece of the mosaic is just an abstraction; I could have made them portraits, and at heart I wanted to make copies of famous paintings and call it the allegory of art history. That I’ll do on a bigger canvas. I’ll really concentrate on the space between the squares or rectangles.
http://chumly.com/n/1d31f9e
Friday, June 14, 2013
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Consumer confidence and consumer attitudes primarily affect => consumers! Stop being so pissy about everything! Companies spent 100+ years building this amazing Wonderland of Offers for one reason and solely one reason => to make you happy!
Yet you are depressed. If you want sustained double-digit growth, you know what you should do? Don't Worry, Be happy!
Happiness is one of the biggest most profitable brands in human history. I would argue it is the SINGLE brand of humankind. All other brands are imitations. Everyone is chasing the Smiley. We invented emoticons so we could express more joy through computer-mediated communications.
All of this was built so you and I could be happy. Why not smile every once in a while? Why not be happy? ☺
[Happiness not brought to you by State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts]
http://chumly.com/n/1d2f485
Yet you are depressed. If you want sustained double-digit growth, you know what you should do? Don't Worry, Be happy!
Happiness is one of the biggest most profitable brands in human history. I would argue it is the SINGLE brand of humankind. All other brands are imitations. Everyone is chasing the Smiley. We invented emoticons so we could express more joy through computer-mediated communications.
All of this was built so you and I could be happy. Why not smile every once in a while? Why not be happy? ☺
[Happiness not brought to you by State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts]
http://chumly.com/n/1d2f485
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
When The World Imitates Art
[I've been doing the modular, grid-based, "Card" thing for 20+ years in my Studio]
http://chumly.com/n/1c7edf9
http://chumly.com/n/1c7edf9
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Happy Birthday, Dali!
[Salvador Dalí Crypt in Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain by by Michael Lazarev 09/05/2004]
http://chumly.com/n/1c596ce
http://chumly.com/n/1c596ce
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Winters of The Soul / Hivers de l'âme
Acrylic on cardboard/Acrylique sur carton, 8" x 10". Marc-Alexandre Gagnon (c) 2009
http://chumly.com/n/1c1f404
http://chumly.com/n/1c1f404
Friday, May 3, 2013
An internet of things
Format: QR_CODE | Type: TEXT | Medium: HAND_PAINTED | Marc-Alexandre Gagnon (c) 2011
http://chumly.com/n/1c17f4e
http://chumly.com/n/1c17f4e
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Unusual tradition
What is it only the Canadian Ministers of Finance who get to celebrate "New shoes on budget day"?
http://chumly.com/n/1bf1562
http://chumly.com/n/1bf1562
Thursday, April 25, 2013
fail
There's nothing I like more than an app I never use. It proves that it's not as easy as it seems. :)
http://chumly.com/n/1bd5fc9
http://chumly.com/n/1bd5fc9
Monday, April 22, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
[ENTER THE ARCHIVE]
A taste of what is to come. 30 years' worth of production, revealed one piece at a time.
http://chumly.com/n/1b74da0
http://chumly.com/n/1b74da0
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
I once made a study of Picasso's painting that was the size of the original (This is not it)
http://chumly.com/n/1b65ad1
http://chumly.com/n/1b65ad1
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
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