Art History Guide

I can’t tell if Egon Schiele was ahead of his time or if many illustrators and artists reached a plateau in similar styles. He even looks like a modern man. What do you think?

Here’s a video:

Good day, I just got back from an out of town area. I saw many a thing, but mostly ate many a food. One of the many a thing that I’ve seen were the insides of the SF MoMa. There I was almost brought to tears being in the presence of many historical artists I’ve studied, some which I’ve covered here. The escalation for me was going from a Max Ernst along the wall until I hit a Mark Rothko.

Several years ago I did a Max Ernst portrait, around the time when I started addressing the mess and cloudiness inside my head. Since then I’ve managed to clear it up and gain some mental discipline. Some people thought the portrait was of an old guy pointing a rifle to his head. It was really of Max pointing a vacuum hose to his head, almost like a gun, but instead of blowing, it was sucking (there is a line drawing of a vacuum behind him). I used him, because I happened upon some video of him doing some dada film, when I started this conquest. There he was madly waltzing down a New York City street. Also I didn’t want to continue sucking after losing my mind.

Ernst was a Dadaist/surrealist who also helped influence the Abstract expressionist movement. My favorite painting of his was The Elephant Celebes.

James Kalm on Rothko

Montagin’

Sellin’

Hitchcockin’

Bootleggedin’

Trailer, Eyballin’

Trailer, Turtlin’

Gameshowin’

A Trailer for a Short in Which He Acts Like Charlie Chaplin’

In Self Promotion

In a British Museum

In LA

In Palestine

In Disney

In Paris

Here is Kalm taking us through a Robert Crumb show:

Here is an interview of the squirrelly fellow:

Here, YouTubester, JamesKalm gives us a tour of a Zwirner & Wirth exhibition, which includes John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton, and a description of a Donald Kuspit essay.

In case you were wondering, ge gives the tour after running up forty three flights of stairs.

(A quicky)

Anyway, Tintoretto was scorned by his contemporaries because they argued that the hastiness of his work degraded the craft of painting and lowering the status of the artist. He painted for middle class locals as opposed to upscaled internationals like Titian.

The probable source for the subject was a Byzantine botanical text-book, ‘Geoponica’, in which it is related how Jupiter, wishing to immortalise the infant Hercules (whose mother was the mortal Alcmene), held him to the breasts of the sleeping Juno. The milk which spurted upwards formed the Milky Way, while some fell downwards giving rise to lilies.

Lilies were once present at the base of the painting, until a part of the original canvas was cut off.

Tintoretto, Titian, Milky Way

My head is constantly working on things, like smoothing out the plot of a story or putting a book shelf together. This is why I need to get things done quickly, so I could be done with it and get to the next problem. Because of this, the quality of my work varies, from a bunch of shades of gray representing a face:

A Mannerist who has been criticized for the speed at which he worked was Venice’s Tintoretto.

He embraced mostly the emotional aspect of Mannerism, and was influenced by Michelangelo, and took the color palette of his mentor, Titian. He was the son of a cloth dyer, also known as a tintore in Italy. Tintoretto was his nickname, meaning “the little dyer.”

More on him later, after I finish some projects with a more worthwhile pay (they pay with ice cream).