Australian born artist Anthony Lister is showing at the Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City from March 19 through to April 19.A lot of my favorite artists are painters that never really give up using the pencil (line). Painterly paintings are good but so are paintings that look like drawings. I guess I like painterly drawings or linear paintings. I
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I'm really good at making lists. I'm a list person. Without lists I watch too much tv, surf the web, or read too much.I create lists that are too ambitious as I rarely ever complete the jobs on them. Which in some ways shows the masochist in me as I know I'm setting myself up to fail, but in other ways it gets me off my fanny (I have always wanted t
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Spencer Tunick has encouraged 5000 Australians to get naked and pose on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.That's not my white bum on the bottom left of the image as I chose not to scare the locals. I'm not much of a morning person either.From the Sydney Morning Herald.. "The official name of Tunick's installation was The Base. Yet after waiting tw
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I like discovering interesting artists that I have never heard of before. French artist Bernard Lorjou (1908-1986) is one of them. I still don't know much about him but I like his work.Bernard Lorjou - Bull and Bullfighter (The Friends)Bernard Lorjou - The Jazz PianistBernard Lorjou - Circus Horse on Hind LegsBernard Lorjou - King DavidMore of his w
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"Procrastination refers to the deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting and/or completing any task or decision. There are three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delay
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Happy holidays!Don't eat or drink too much.RelaxDionThe santa painting was stolen here.
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The good thing about those pathetic art scammers has been that their story never changes. They're moving from place A to place B, they need some of your wonderful art to hang in their new home, and for some strange reason the stupid woman is always pregnant (God help the world if these people do actually breed).Well, the idiots are evolving now and
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Probably the best exhibition I have seen in Australia (coming from a fan of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne). Masterpieces from Paris has 9 Paul Gauguins, 7 Van Goghs and 8 Cezannes. So it's more than one or two good paintings thrown in with a bunch of weaker paintings like the usual "blockbuster" exhibition. The Van Goghs alone are worth making t
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Since discovering the iPod I now rarely listen to whole albums while I paint as I just create play lists to suit my mood. But some albums just play well all the way through so I still use them in the studio.Here's Ten albums that have kept me company during the completion of a painting or two..Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and HateAnything by Leonar
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Here's some quotes by fellow Australian artist Leith O'Malley, from an interview here at Art and Art Ed."Remember there are not better artists, just better publicists!"Leith O'Malley"When I am creating art... I have a real sense of excitement and even enlightenment. Just me and the work. It’s still there when a painting is completed but never as s
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The Art Calendar magazine is accepting entries for their self portrait magazine cover competition. I'm not sure if artists outside of the United States can enter, but I entered it anyway. Entries are submitted online and it's free to enter, so it was pretty easy.Here's my self portrait entry..Here's their blurb.."Entrants will have the chance to win
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People are really good at making excuses and I'm no exception. I try not to accept my excuses though as they're usually pathetic, just like all of your excuses for not getting off your butt and doing what you really should be doing now.Here's my pathetic excuses for not posting lately..There's not enough hours in the dayI have been overdosing on art
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I was asked a few questions by a student journalist at City University London recently..1) First of all can you tell me a little bit about your work? What themes do you explore in your art and why? What do you strive to achieve through it?I basically just paint what I want, how I want. I have no social or moral message to give. I stopped selling pai
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I can't honestly say how useful this application is as I don't own an iPhone, but it sounds like a good idea. It's a free application (I believe there is also a pro version for a small fee) available from iTunes which guides you to art museums, exhibitions and galleries around the world. If it does what it's supposed to do it would be a must have fo
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Basquiat is my favorite movie about an artist.It's hard to make a good artist look interesting as they're usually just working.
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I sometimes wonder why? What's the point? Why make art at all?It's usually only after days like today, days that are physically, mentally and emotionally draining.Everything will be alright tomorrow.
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I'm susbcribed to a whole bunch of newsletters and am bombarded with all kinds of promotional emails, most of which I never open. But one that I always open is from Other Criteria. It is a collective of artists, pushing all kinds of limited editions, prints, and publications, but I really only look at what Damien Hirst is selling.I find the man endl
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This news is a little late as I have been a very absent blog editor lately, but I keep telling myself that it's better late than never.This month the art news site Art Daily turned 13! In internet years thirteen is almost ancient.. well done Art Daily.Here's to another 13 years!Five years no longer sounds old to me.
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Just thought I would share a nice EP called Queen of Cities put out by Luna Roslyn. They're using one of my paintings from Turkey for the cover. Hear the songs on their MySpace page here or support them by buying the album online here. It's good for the ears while holding a brush! Luna Roslyn is also on Facebook."If the Earth was a single state, Ist
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ARTINFO has reported on the new retail outlet of gallery mogul Larry Gagosian.."The sleek, 2,500-square-foot, bi-level space, which opened to the public this past weekend, also inaugurates London import (and Gagosian artist) Damien Hirst’s publishing company and retail shop Other Criteria on the lower level, making for a kind of casual art emporiu
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Here's a distinguished Australian art expert talking about art. Please don't watch this video if the F-word offends.The actor is Heath Franklin (not Eric Bana) and he's playing the role of career criminal Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read. The Vincent/ear thing is worth noting as Chopper cut off his own ears.. and I believe he was shot several times also.
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I have been grocery shopping and brought home some meat and vegetables.There's the t-bone steak for the carnivores.They say carrots are good for the eyes.Chicken is a popular.Potatoes are boring, I don't care how they're cooked.Minced meat for spaghetti bolognese.. mmmm.And some bacon if you don't mind eating pink squealy things.
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Home is worth the long wait if you have a slow internet connection. The makers of the film have more videos on their YouTube page.I stopped reading books and news on the environment a while ago as they're just too depressing, but with this one they at least throw in a little hope towards the end. Even if you're not interested in the environment and
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Art News Blog is FIVE years old. That must make me some kind of blogger or arts writer or something. I'm most comfortable with the "something" label though. Someone called me an art critic recently and I didn't know how to react. He said it in a way that was supposed to be flattering but I was actually very offended.If I was forced to label myself i
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Easily the best living painter in the world.. in my humble opinion.Before seeing or hearing Lucian Freud speak I thought he might be a more forceful person. I figured that the man would have been much less delicate than he is in person as his paintings are so strong and self assured.I almost feel uncomfortable watching him as he seems naked, even if
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