Thursday, October 31, 2013

John Murray classes week of November 4, 2013


Last week's destruction/collaboration work was very strong.

Next week let's try a painting usinig paint rollers.
A limited method can open a wider vision.

See you next week, John.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

John Murray classes week of October 28, 2013



Last week's found object challenge went well; above is what I did around a crushed piece of drain pipe and some burlap fabric.

Friday's Times had a great review by Blake Gopnik of a show at the Hirschorn Museum in DC of the Destruction Movement in art in the 60's and 70's.
I will see the show in November when I go to Washington... but the review mentioned a piece by Robert Rauschenberg, included in the show, that is his famous erased Dekooning drawing. 

This inspired next week assignment: I will setup a still life for you to paint draw or otherwise replicate and then ask you (or your neighbor) to destoy, erase or obscure in an interesting and graphic fashion.

See you next week, John.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

John Murray classes week of October 21, 2013



Next week find an object (above is my flattened drain spout) and work from that piece in some way: paint it attach it, draw it, deconstruct it, photocopy, photograph  it, build an altar for it.


Picasso turned a bicycle seat into a bull's head!
See you next week, john.





Friday, October 11, 2013

John Murray classes week of Oct. 14, 2013

No class on Monday, the 14th, Columbus Day.
Remember that the native population dropped by 50% within a few years after European contact.

Wednesday classes please continue with work on previous assignments and your own experiments.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

John Murray classes week of October, 7, 2013


Good work by all artists the last two weeks.
I loved the cardboard surface paintings and assemblages!
Let's keep the work rolling next week.
Find an older photo of yourself and deconstruct it in a painting, drawing, assemblage or combination of all mediums.
Likeness is not the point of this assignment...find a plastic approach and see if it leads to a higher truth about yourself and nostalgia for the past...sort of a Proustian exercise for painters/artists.

 See you next week. John.