THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 23 : Icarus

SPLASH !!!

Gone from this place

Silence only

Earthly delight

Soundless in oblivion

Silent night

Mr Icarus Rising..

Glowering, stammering

Headache hammering

Tears fall shimmering

Hope comes a glimmering

Rising from ground zero

Remade Remodelled 

Undeconstructed

Our hero..

Returns

Found peeled

Appalled

Apart for apart's sake

Lost

Lonely

Destroyed

Icarus rising..

 

reach for the light

Icarus risen

 

All wrong but alright 

Born again bruised, broken and beaten

He stands and delivers..

Howls of frustration

Lust for life lost 

Fallen from favour

Lie about failure

Promise the future..

Perfection in flight

Flight of fancy

From salt water solution..

To new resolution

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/featured/icarus-in-red-charles-stuart.html 

 

Waxing and waning..

Spend time in training..

Sleep while the sun shines..

Fly while it's raining

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 22 : Limited Edition

It's 1985..

and our artist is selling limited edition screen prints..

Madonna De Milo

he has sold one of these to Manchester City Art Gallery..

for their loan scheme..

Take Five..

He has sold several of these..

there are three layers..

yellow on the bottom..

the second layer is printed on both sides..

green on the front and pink on the back..

stars are cut out on all but one side..

then they are folded back to reveal the bottom layer..

on the top layer is a black halftone screen of..

the famous still from..

the seven year itch..

The Scream..

here you can see the cut outs working more clearly..

this shape inspired by ..

Ellsworth Kelly..

all but one of these went..

positive and negative palm..

a best selling print..

edition of 50..

still got a few but most sold..

the truth really..

is that his wife Virgina Stuart..

has made the appointments with the loan schemes..

and it is she who sold them there..

one of the artist's concepts..

was 'iconoclasm' ..

Janet Leigh gets the Warhol treatment..

straight from the shower..

then the cutting started..

then the folding back..

it was intended to be one of the layers..

for 'the scream'..

but this works better..

what do you think..

ICONOCLASM

the 'Pscho' prints were surplus to requirements..

once the decision not to use them for 'the scream'..

was made..

so the artist attacked them with paint stripper, white spirit and boot polish,,

you can imagine the frenzied attack..

a whole garage covered in paint stripper..

a destroyed icon..

smudged make up..

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/the+scream

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/flaps

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/east+100th+street

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 21 :A Picture Disc

 11 August 1979 - 29 September 1979

our artist has his first one man show..

he's come up with a concept album..

of course he has..

he has written a stream of consciousness piece..

(rant)..

THE REBEL

he is writing this at home in his new wimpy home..

in the burbs..

he is not amused..

art school has disappeared in the rear view mirror..

and he has a job..

although it is a graphics job..

and he gets to take photos and design stuff..

this is not his dream..

he is at heart an attic man..

so he paints in joe's garage..

he is a nice boy..

"he used to cut the grass"..

PARADISE LOST

he paints about the dreams of youth..

and how each generation sees it's rebellions dissolve..

it's all in the pictures..

click on the images for full size readability..

he includes quotes form books he likes..

and poems he has written

his friends are invited to write stuff..

an artist's dream come true..

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE : 20 - King Elvis Has surely come

        putting on de Stijl

    

so..

HOW ART MADE POP and HOW POP BECAME ART 

is the title of a book..

publish by the tate..

he's read it recently..

it explains a lot..

his place in the story..

regular bots and readers..

will know all about this sorry tale..

boy from the burbs..

makes good..

or not..

no where else to go..

but art school..

his mother said he was tone deaf..

he is the guy who listens..

so close to john and dave..

but no cigar..

SOME OF THESE DAYS YOU'LL MISS ME HONEY

“A few seconds more and the Negress will sing. It seems inevitable, so strong is the necessity of this music: nothing can interrupt it, nothing which comes from this time in which the world has fallen; it will stop by itself, as if by order. If I love this beautiful voice it is especially because of that: it is neither for its fulness nor its sadness, rather because it is the event for which so many notes have been preparing, from so far away, dying that it might be born. " from 'Nausea' John Paul Sartre..

those who have read the first instalments of..

the 'artist in residence'..

will know that Nausea was the book..

our artist was reading..

on the train to liverpool..

to deliver his painting..

to the john moores painting prize in 1969..

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/king+elvis+has+surely+come

 

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 19 : Live in the studio

 

1983 a hospital residency..

1984

right in the studio shot above

this one didn't make it..

it was the one on the left in the studio above..

Lavender Mist..

in dialogue with..

  Pollock and Abstract expressionism..

American Gothic

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 18 : Enola Gay

yo!

the artist has noticed this American symbol..

how could he not..

seven years before he was born..

the skys over Europe..

were full of airplanes displaying this recognition symbol..

he thinks of this as the logo/pictogram..

of the American century..

AN AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

in American Art of the 1940 - 1950 period..

Abstract Expressionism..

was the result, in part, of a turning away..

from the horrors of the war..

the artist has read..

that the energy of Pollock's..

Summertime 1948

is descriptive of the energy released by the nuclear bomb..

the airplane that dropped the bomb was called..

Enola Gay..

Mark Rothko 

 

"There is no such thing as good painting about nothing"

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 17 : A BOOMER'S PAINTING

yo!

here we are in the artist's studio..

what a mess..

well it's a grey January day..

and the studio is cold and unused..

THE LANDSCAPE THAT WAS

this canvas was started in 1984..

and was part of a series about Idealised Landscape..

an American USAAF decal from WWII..

with a quatrefoil in the centre of the star..

a promised land..

this image was his thing for a while..

this was the first one in 1985..

a nice dove of peace vibe happening here..

Lavender Mist..

probably the artist's favourite..

Jackson would have approved..

military vibe here..

you may notice how the colours of the rectangles..

either side of the star are different from each other..

the idea was mood and balance..

a balance of power..

A BALANCE THAT WAS

so 70 years of Pax Americana..

gone like snow on the water..

next time on..

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

painting over paradise..

the fool on the hill..

the future that was..

THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 16 : IN CAMERA

 inside a black room..

in the local contemporary art gallery..

the artist waits behind a closed door..

he has his Sony RX100 pointing at the blackness..

the door opens..

and our boy shoots..

this is what he thinks photography is..

the unexpected..

the happy accident..

the lucky break..

chance meeting..

like Kandinsky..

seeing his painting upside down..

in the moonlight..

abstract.. 

innit!