The List, Installment 2: Shape Painters

I made a new paper cut piece, but I want to wait until I have more of them before posting. I'm also waiting on a wood order to make stretchers, which means paintings are in the near future! So, in the interest of fostering inspiration, today's installment will be dedicated to paintings. The List is pretty dominated by painters, so I'm going to have to come up with associative groups. Today's theme will be 'shapes'...


Clyfford Still:





I was in New York this past weekend with my senior painting class (we saw SO MUCH! It was fantastic). We went to the Met to see the John Baldessari exhibit (fantastic), and had some time to roam around afterward, and I stumbled upon an entire room full of Clyfford Still paintings! It was pretty epic. I similarly freaked out at the Abstract Expressionism show at MoMA, where there was an entire room of Rothko paintings. Unfortunately, by the time we got to MoMA I only had 20 minutes before I had to leave to catch the bus, so I was basically short-circuiting...I need to go back and bask for an appropriate stretch of time.

Sam Francis:








He's featured in the Ab Ex show...

Hans Hoffman:



Him too

Jean-Paul Riopelle:








That was agonizing. There are so many amazing painters! When I look at Sam Francis, I want to look at Joan Mitchell, and then I want to look at Cy Twombly, then early Phillip Guston, and on and on and on forever! Remember what happens when you give a moose a muffin? This is worse. Stay tuned!