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The illustrations that I use for my radio shows are an important part of the aesthetic of the Podcast itself. I want the pictures to reflect what the program is like and also my own tastes in visual art. I am a classical music critic and composer, and I hope through my show to help educate listeners about music that they are missing and might try. With your permission may I use the image « Clair de lune ».
I love the area between the frame at left and her skirt avec left arm. C'est très Fauviste. But overall the composition reminds me of Matisse! Très bon! My 14-year-old daughter says your work is "cool"- she loves the scarf in the long tall painting and the vases. I agree.
I went out to look for a master painting on the theme of the beautiful Verlaine-Fauré chanson and most of what I found were boring landscapes of ships out in the moonlight. Yours was by far the best painting I'd seen on the subject as I imagine it from the poem.
You put a lot of work into your paintings. Of the paintings on your site the one I liked least well was the nude, just simply because the perspective aspect of it seemed not to be working for you. On the other hand, I was going to suggest that your figures should always have clothes, as you are so marvelous in your ability to represent fabric, the texture of it, the patterns and all that.
It must be difficult for you as a "peintre," as the priorities of the fine art world are so out of sync with what is "artistic." Don't give up, as I have a feeling that we will be turning that corner soon. There are only so many master paintings by the Matisses, Derains, Renoirs and the like, and most of them are in museums. When people decide they want art in their lives, they are going to want more than post-modern, conceptualist art - interesting and sometimes fun, but not permanent and not worth the money. What you do has that special gift that goes beyond mere "gallery paintings" or art that one might purchase at a fair; you have that gift and you should do what you can to keep it up. Just my opinion naturally, but I hope I am right.
Dave Lewis |
