Posted by Bob Martin in Art, Artist, Culture on 11 28th, 2006 | No Comments

An Artist’s Life

Charlie Rose’s November 24th program featured a discussion about THE ART OF LUCIAN FREUD which was insightful for me. I’ve always appreciated his work, and once traveled to London to see a retrospective at the Tate. Standing in front of his work all the background stories, who his grandfather...
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Posted by Sandy in Concerts, Culture on 11 25th, 2006 | No Comments

Barbara Cook Sings Sondheim

Barbara Cook and Stephen Sondheim – amazing septuagenarians. Ms Cook continues to sing, interpret and represent Broadway and its’ composers. Some famous, some not, but, “Broadway” nevertheless with all the marquee lights blazing. When she sings Sondheim, who continues to create,...
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Posted by Sandy in Art, Books, Culture, Movies on 11 19th, 2006 | 2 Comments

He Got Me Before “Double, Double, Toil…”

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is my favorite. I know, if I wish to impress, I should say – Hamlet, King Lear, etc. They may be “deeper”, but, they’re not as much fun. Macbeth has witches= 3, it has ghosts = 8 plus (Hamlet only has a flickering dad). The play has a “moving”...
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Posted by Bob Martin in Art, Culture on 11 15th, 2006 | No Comments

Good Deeds

This is a great story about how our artist community banded together to support a fellow artist. Scott Turner a Mouth-Wand Artist was recently in a automobile accident which resulted in both personal injuries and the loss of his Van. Some 45 plus artist from around the country have donated paintings...
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Posted by Sandy in Artist, Concerts, Dance on 11 12th, 2006 | 1 Comment

Prince in Las Vegas – A New Frontier

The artist formerly known as, currently known as “Prince” will be performing in Las Vegas starting in November and thru 2007. Rather than see this as a sell out or commercialization of an esteemed performer – a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, tons of gold records“ I was...
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Posted by Bob Martin in Artist on 11 11th, 2006 | No Comments

The Kind of Contradiction That Works

  Annie Lennox’s “Bitter” from her album “Bare” there is this great rift in the middle which recalls (for me) George Clinton and Funkadelic of the 1970. This is one my favorite tracks, the lyrics seem personal, which is consistent with Ms. Lennox and  the music’s...
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Posted by Cybel in Movies on 11 11th, 2006 | No Comments

New Archetypes

How lucky I (we) am to be an artist. Not only do we create something out of nothing and have the capacity to show others how to perceive the world, we alter their psyche. I just finished watching Tarkovsky’s “Solaris” (Russia’s answer to “2001″) which has some of...
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Posted by Bob Martin in Books, Concerts on 11 9th, 2006 | No Comments

The British Invasion

Last night the Rolling Stones played to another packed crowd out in Glendale Arizona. It looked like some of the fans needed to be assisted in order to get to the concert and there were others that could easily have been Mick Jagger’s great great grand children. In a recent book about the...
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Posted by Cybel in Art on 11 7th, 2006 | 1 Comment

Finding Inspiration

I was sitting in the park today and saw a bunch of students sitting by a fountain. One girl took her time to play with the leaves in the water. It was a wonderfully idyllic image. Very Pre-Raphaelite. I decided that that would be the inspiration for my next painting. And then in the mail today, I got...
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Posted by Bob Martin in Art, Artist, Culture on 11 2nd, 2006 | No Comments

To Inform, Give Meaning and Influence

It is not necessary that we come to an agreement about what is good works of art. It is important that we independently see value in the art that we like and appreciate. To have our own listening, our on sight, that we are not relaying on what others think. We don’t need talking heads for everything. ...
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