tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3664385702748706834..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Charles Burchfield: The Insect Chorus (1917-1920)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-84662945554093205192011-10-17T17:54:57.486-07:002011-10-17T17:54:57.486-07:00Yes, yes, Tom, you're right — they are the &qu...Yes, yes, Tom, you're right — they are the "Journals". You are so kind to provide the link to the interview and you can be sure I will listen to it.<br /><br />As for cross- posting, in my fragmented way of sorts, I'd forgotten to say that word pond is where I blog, and, yes, again, it means to create a link to your magnificent posting (one of many, I must say, almost each day a new one and always sensually surprising). Thank you, DonnaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83332944673861917572011-10-16T06:18:36.590-07:002011-10-16T06:18:36.590-07:00Woops, almost missed your second comment, Donna. D...Woops, almost missed your second comment, Donna. Don't know quite what you mean by "cross-posting" (I'm from one of those other centuries). But if what you mean is linking to this post, Sure.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56976283848067612462011-10-16T02:53:16.023-07:002011-10-16T02:53:16.023-07:00Donna, if you mean the Journals, yes, the prices a...Donna, if you mean the Journals, yes, the prices are... I suppose "prohibitive" sounds better than "obscene". From c. $250 to c. $650, are the numbers I've seen quoted in a quick search tonight.<br /><br />However, at a much fairer price (that is, nothing) one may read an interesting interview done late in CB's life (1959).<br /><br />It's in the Smithsonian Oral Archives of American Art series.<br /><br />And may be found <a href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-charles-burchfield-12702" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46465812000325566002011-10-15T11:43:48.207-07:002011-10-15T11:43:48.207-07:00woops, may I cross-post this on word pond? Please ...woops, may I cross-post this on word pond? Please . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8917498185292660872011-10-15T11:43:12.454-07:002011-10-15T11:43:12.454-07:00Tremendous post, that elicited likewise comments. ...Tremendous post, that elicited likewise comments. Would love to get my eyes on the book Burchfield wrote because it's said he was a real poet in the bok, but it's way too expensive. Have you read it? Thanks for all, DonnaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70704719161338782022011-10-14T01:43:27.690-07:002011-10-14T01:43:27.690-07:00A very moving post Tom. And a very engaging commen...A very moving post Tom. And a very engaging comment thread. Putting Esp. Ed's <br />( Ode to Thomas A. Edison: American Dream, 1970) which made me laugh out real hard. <br /><br />Tichy .. Burchfield .. and all you people who remember them like no one else does... sometimes I think the world aint that bad a place.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62663066019407532452011-10-11T06:15:42.958-07:002011-10-11T06:15:42.958-07:00that next to the last paragraph/thought REALLY
str...that next to the last paragraph/thought REALLY<br />struck this Urban Hermit !<br /> and<br />speaking of "light under a bushel"<br /><br />what I consider my (very) first poem <br />( Ode to Thomas A. Edison: American Dream, 1970)<br /><br />opens:<br /><br /> 'Switch off the lights'<br /><br />she obeyed<br /><br /> the room closed into the folds of night<br /><br />(etc)<br /><br />not a "great" opening" however, the (event) in the dark was ...Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23222304967584586132011-10-11T05:57:44.865-07:002011-10-11T05:57:44.865-07:00The 1917 "annus mirabilis" of Burchfield...The 1917 "annus mirabilis" of Burchfield, in which he made the leap from kitsch to an unheralded level of original creation, has a one-off feeling to it, from this distance.<br /><br />The days of the hermit genius fashioning astonishing visionary inventions out of whole cloth are recalled for us by such rare "phenomena" as Miroslav Tichy or the early Burchfield. <br /><br />A mixture of timidity and audacity, shyness and disdain for the obvious and conventional, and a complete disregard for attention or "being liked" would be the ingredients to guarantee the purity of the strain.<br /><br />But of course, such a position would be untenable today, when hiding your light under a bushel will simply get you left in the dark forever.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73585748169992713412011-10-10T16:26:45.436-07:002011-10-10T16:26:45.436-07:00THANK YOU, Ed!!
This was very interesting (and I a...THANK YOU, Ed!!<br />This was very interesting (and I am right know reading that review).Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89261988344028984812011-10-10T16:15:15.357-07:002011-10-10T16:15:15.357-07:00Et al:
here is Jewel in the Lotus (with a bit of...Et al:<br /><br />here is Jewel in the Lotus (with a bit of narrative about)<br />as just put-up of Flux USA:<br /><br />http://fluxusa.blogspot.com/2011/10/ed-baker_10.html<br /><br />and<br /><br />I recently read some one a "critic" with a PhD in Knowledge who wrote:<br /><br /> "Burchfield is just Hopper in the rain"Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68931182649400898032011-10-10T15:36:18.772-07:002011-10-10T15:36:18.772-07:00Julia, et al
here is a nice review of a Burchfi...Julia, et al<br /> here is a nice review of a Burchfield exhibition<br />that was exactly 1one year ago:<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-burchfield11-2009oct11,0,4648618.story<br /><br />I think his technique was something that since him<br />is called "dry-brush" water-color painting...<br /><br />a very little bit of water/or liquid to make the colors paste-like and then put it on the sheets THICK !<br /><br />you also gotta keep water-colors out of the light<br />as the colors quickly fade away just like the artists/people do !<br /><br />I keep my about 2200 on paper water-colors <br />( mostly 8 1/2 x 11 s) in acid free sleeves inside (49)<br />three-ring notebooks...<br /><br />one of the reasons most people don't know or have seen his work(s) is because of the need to keep the light off of them.<br /><br />of ALL of the water-colorists (n America) I think that Charles Burchfield is rated # 1 !<br /><br />another thing that stands him apart? he worked<br />his canvases ("membranes") on an aisle ...<br /><br />one of the Smithsonian Institution's museums here in D.C. (I think the Museum of American Art) has some of his "things"<br /><br />... however you may try you just cannot get the "feel" of his<br /> or anyboddhi elses (work) via this Internet<br /><br />go look at "the real deals' they just might change your life !<br /><br />you can limit your use of the net to writing term papers then<br /><br /> paint/write how you like and die happyEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54488370129879967422011-10-10T15:09:50.318-07:002011-10-10T15:09:50.318-07:00These are watercolours?! I've never seen such ...These are watercolours?! I've never seen such powerful ones! The mental depression happens to be shown in the paintings, but it's transformed in a shocking work of art.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90777906179573534612011-10-10T09:06:19.949-07:002011-10-10T09:06:19.949-07:00hey Tom
all of my "stuff" is via using ...hey Tom<br /><br />all of my "stuff" is via using water-based paints/colors<br />big pieces are on wood little pieces on paper....<br /> then two coats of polyurethane <br /><br />I get my paints as missed-matched quarts/gallons from home depot usually a dollar.<br /><br />some of the pieces here behind me:<br /><br />http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nolCm_RlZY0/TpAxVodxfdI/AAAAAAAATs8/fLq9fvOChHg/s1600/PastedGraphic-1.jpg<br /><br />anyway<br />a VERY informative article-bio of Charles Burchfield<br />over on wikipedia....<br /><br />as for those Art Institutes I went to The Corcoran wayyyyy<br />back in 1963 went in the front door and walked out the back door<br />and "never looked back"<br /><br />I mean<br /> all of the old 'stuff' hanging in them galleries/museums like it-all was each-one of them something sacred !<br /><br />and you had to be very quiet so the guid could tell everyone in the tour group what they were looking at<br /><br />and if you got close to a painting the alarm would go off and 6 guards would POUNCE on you !<br /><br />I just sent that image of "the Jewel in the Lotus"<br />over to flux use maybe Christine will 'put it up' for all who might be following this-all can see it!<br /><br />hang in ....Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72926791540179987282011-10-10T08:17:31.787-07:002011-10-10T08:17:31.787-07:00Steve,
Drizzle, wet pavements, tire sizzle, here....Steve,<br /><br />Drizzle, wet pavements, tire sizzle, here.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4434285001977942252011-10-10T08:06:53.572-07:002011-10-10T08:06:53.572-07:00Tom,
Great to see these EARLY Burchfields, then g...Tom,<br /><br />Great to see these EARLY Burchfields, then go back (forward?) via your link to those later ones (how he changed, but kept that vision going) w/ poem and comments back and forth to Curtis. . . Meanwhile, the fog is back with a vengeance, rain on the way?<br /><br />10.10<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, house sparrow calling from field<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> letter dated on, appears in<br /> at least thirty works<br /><br /> such as “being is,” for one<br /> thing, and is not yet<br /><br />grey white of fog reflected in channel,<br />wingspan of gull flapping toward ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37326778315303992212011-10-10T07:36:24.876-07:002011-10-10T07:36:24.876-07:00Ed,
I have no trouble fitting your Jewel in the L...Ed,<br /><br />I have no trouble fitting your Jewel in the Lotus (thank you very much, my friend!) in with these early Burchfields in the Museum of Original American Watercolourists of My Imagination. (I think it's that daub of lavender on the cheek.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43522354219447291992011-10-10T07:25:12.481-07:002011-10-10T07:25:12.481-07:00this painter "speaks" far beyond The Pal...this painter "speaks" far beyond The Pale !<br /><br />water colors seamlessly tracking<br />mind/heart as one.... as they are.<br /><br />a stretch for me to get to any disectionings<br />of what "it" is that he has gifted us...<br /><br />1917-1935 ... one hell of a period in which EVERYTHING<br />was invented, explored, and taboo-less.<br /><br />et ceteras in my drifts and East Wind blowing ...<br /><br />that "tree.... a map of the mind of Big Mind ...<br /> de:pressed !Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83747822971246628532011-10-10T06:34:56.017-07:002011-10-10T06:34:56.017-07:00Some later Burchfields<a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/charles-burchfield-realism.html" rel="nofollow">Some later Burchfields</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com