tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189321042024-03-13T08:17:29.476-06:00A New Art MovementDaniel North creates images that refuse to stay still. Movement is his muse, movement is the purpose. His prolific production of nearly 200 paintings per year has garnered the attention of galleries and museums across North America.danielnorth.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115356477035369540noreply@blogger.comBlogger691125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-38582261581547855822015-08-21T11:14:00.001-06:002015-08-21T11:14:57.026-06:00Art Rentals for FilmThe production company behind the new Matthew McConaughey film, "Gold", rented seven of my paintings for use in their upcoming movie. ohhh yeaaaahhhh....<br />
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Bach trumpet dipped in Oil-based Enamel Paint, 2014</div>
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$750</div>
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"insurgo 2", Oil-based Enamel on Canvas, 54"x54", 2015</div>
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"insurgo", Oil-based Enamel on Canvas, 24"x72", 2015</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty Years</i></div>
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1994 Pepsi Commemorative bottles dipped in Oil-based Enamel
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My sculptures are created from items that once held
significant value to individuals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some pieces
reflect wasted talent; others were just poor financial decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I dip them in paint, all objects are
transformed into trophies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remove
functionality and replace it with a glossy finish. - North</div>
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<br />danielnorth.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115356477035369540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-61797739092573318572013-11-14T11:11:00.003-07:002013-11-14T11:12:40.650-07:00Quality Over Celebrity<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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of art and the building of collections are often to the detriment of the work. While I like a buck as much as the next guy,
I recognize the conundrum that money poisons the well of creativity. <br />
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Today, Impressionists paintings are easily
shrugged-off by the serious contemporary collectors and critics as beauty for
beauty’s sake. Fluff is an even coarser
description. While the works of artists
such as Monet and Degas are indeed pleasurable to look upon, they must be
viewed primarily as explorations. While
artists such as Renoir grew old and comfortable in their style, a few of the Impressionists
continued to explore painting and color theory with the same fervor that initially
led the father of Impressionism, Edouard Manet, to create “The Fife Player” and
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Monet’s
Water Lilies triptych (1915-1926) is the perfect example of overblown beauty
that one can walk into and absorb into their skin, immediately recognizing the mental labor spent on its creation. The layering of colors make the canvas glow to a near effervescent shimmer, but technically Monet was simply an old
man with failing eyesight, attempting to master the ultimate illusion of
color. This was not a one-off painting
created for profit. It took nine years
to complete and the size, alone made it unsaleable to a single person or institution. Once completed, it stood as
his Opus in a life’s search for scientific qualities of light and color, visualized. He was so enamored by the piece that he kept
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However, the
beast that is capitalism has forced the separation of the pieces between three
museums (St. Louis, Kansas City and Ohio). How can the best interests of the
work be held higher than the celebrity of the artist, if the institutions set-up
to champion art for the people is mired in the politics of acquisitions and
patronage? Monet was only able to create
this nine-year masterwork thanks to his success. Yet, during his life he kept the painting
close for constant re-observation, refusing to separate the triptych. -North<o:p></o:p></div>
danielnorth.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115356477035369540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-26470818029015248462013-11-13T08:42:00.002-07:002013-11-13T08:43:25.692-07:00Not famous or Pure Art as a correlation of Pure Math and a counter-balance to Applied Mathematics and its relation to Representational Art<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"><br /></span>
<span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Pure Art is unique in the fact that it
is creation without purpose.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Profit is a
secondary purpose/by-product.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Contemporary
aesthetic design (e.x. Apple products) falls under the profit spectrum.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Initially, art is created for the sake of
art.</span><br />
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">DaVinci created paintings such as the
Mona Lisa for commission/income; but he placed the subjects into radical
settings of his own design</span></li>
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Manet and the early pre-impressionists
(such as Corbet and Goya) created sellable masterful works to illicit response
rather than just fulfill a market need</span></li>
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">Van Gogh as an artist represents the
epitome of art for art’s sake.</span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.5in;">He
created a world of his own making... that no one was interested paying for; yet he
continued to paint as if it were as important as food and air</span></li>
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danielnorth.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115356477035369540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-21294618843700116772013-11-12T12:04:00.001-07:002013-11-12T12:04:40.519-07:00Pure Art<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pure Art is the treatise that purely abstract
concepts and intentions in the creation of art, naturally, still follow the physical laws
of a specific multiverse. Despite the seeming randomness of
non-objectivism; basic physical laws (such as balance and composition) still
affect aesthetics in the drive for pure abstraction. The difficulty in
widespread acceptance of this idea has more to do with the lifecycle of art
through the ages than actual recognition of the basic concepts. Pure
abstraction is only a century old. If we breakdown the exploration of Art
to a timeline of human existence, this is what we are left with:</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cave
painting was Art’s birth</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
Greeks engaged our learning throughout its toddler years with the
discovery of aesthetic perfections</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
Renaissance and onward through the times of Ruben and El Greco, were Art’s
turbulent rebellious teenage years where the rules were bent and broken
but hidden behind the illusion of realism; the Catholic Church was the
parental figure that punished and rewarded creative duties</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while
the often-considered rebels of early-twentieth century movements that
ultimately led-to modern art are more accurately the mature embrace of
early-adulthood and the natural human sense of experimentation with
purpose</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Art
is now in middle-adulthood, that moment when understanding accompanies
both a heightened comprehension of the effects of theorizing the future as
well as recognizing past opportunities, both missed and embraced</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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differences between that which is true and what is possible. If the
human mind can conceive a unique idea or angle to existing laws, than that mere
conception makes it a logical possibility or truth. - North</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />danielnorth.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115356477035369540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-61757407139887723392013-11-07T11:49:00.000-07:002013-11-07T11:49:33.761-07:00Penistaja<i><span style="font-family: "Futura Md","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></i>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Penistaja soils are extensive in New Mexico, where they have an extent of more than 1 million acres. They are very productive rangeland soils and are excellent for livestock grazing, wildlife habitat, and recreation. The Penistaja series of soils was named after a small farming and stock-raising community in northwest New Mexico. “Penistaja” is a Navajo name meaning “forced to sit.” Penistaja soils occur in a beautiful Southwest setting of sandstone mesas, snow-capped mountains, and desert grasslands.</span></span><br />
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danielnorth.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115356477035369540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-54916460021164085452013-11-06T21:25:00.000-07:002013-11-06T21:25:01.993-07:00Crescit Eundo - It grows as it goes<i><span style="font-family: "Futura Md","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></i>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The Latin phrase, </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Crescit Eundo</i><span style="text-align: justify;">, can be translated as "Increases as it goes" or, more commonly as New Mexico's motto, "Grows as it goes." </span><span style="text-align: justify;">The phrase is taken from Book VI of Lucretius' epic scientific poem</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><cite style="text-align: justify;">De rerum natura</cite><span style="text-align: justify;">, (On the Nature of Things).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Zeus has come to
seduce Leda in the form of a beautiful swan.
She will give
birth to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Helen of Troy, the woman
over whom the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Trojan War<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will be fought. In Ancient Greek
mythology – and in <span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">William Butler Yeats’</span>
poem – Leda's rape is taken as an indirect cause of war.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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overpowered her. Did she know she was having sex with a god? She didn't have
too long to think about it, because as soon as the swan had gotten what he
wanted, he let her fall to the ground as if he couldn't care less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vinci. My modern
interpretation is based upon the composition, color family and size of
Leonardo’s lost masterpiece. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Vinci began making studies in 1504 for a "Seated Leda" painting,
which was, apparently never executed. All we have are the few sketches and a
copy by Giampietrino. During the second
stay at Milan (around 1508) Leonardo finished another version of the subject,
this time Leda was standing and wrapped her arms around Zeus in a guise of
beautiful swan, while four of their of children (who were Castor, Polux, Helen
of Troy and Clytemnestra in original myth) were having their birth from
swan-eggs. The painting showed a deep reference to nature study, while the
babies were shown in kind of serpenticle poses as the true baby birds are in
that pose while breaking out of egg-shell. Despite this, the female figure of
Leda is not quite realistic in anatomy at all - maybe because this was the
first and the only painting of the female nude that Leonardo ever finished.</span></div>
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depiction must have been very successful because as the legend tells after the
original painting was inherited by pupils of Leonardo; it was bought by a
French aristocrat. He must have liked this painting more than his own wife,
because she tore Leonardo's masterpiece apart and burned it in the 17th or 18th
century. - North<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at a vacant church with the thought of converting into a live/work
studio/gallery. My daughter asked if I was trying to buy my way back-in
(religion). I told this to the owner and he said, "I was supposed to
be Muslim, but every time I looked around the mosque, I just thought
this would make a great house. They wouldn't let me, so I left and
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Two evenings ago, at dinner, my son asked an amazing question
for his ten years.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Samuel asked, “If someone broke into your studio and only
stole a single painting, would you be angry or flattered?”</div>
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<br /></div>
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I didn’t know how to respond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has taken two days of reflection, just to
piece together a plausible answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
I believe differentiates me as an artist as opposed to a hobbyist is my ability
to perfectly recreate my own vision, on demand. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that in-mind, one could say that art must
command a uniqueness that can only be effortlessly recreated by the original
artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, for art to be
true it cannot live as a single one-off of material possession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it may never actually enter the process
of duplication or regeneration by the artist, the capacity must exist during
the life of the artist for it to have value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not monetary value, because that is nothing more than a reflection of fashionable
hive-type thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Van Gogh’s work does
not have inherent value if his contemporary markets are to be set-up as a reputable
marker for success.</div>
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<br /></div>
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With that in mind, the only plausible answer is that one cannot
take art from an artist, if someone could take my art, than that would nullify
the fact that I am an artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A thief
can only steal the physicality of the item from the business entity purposed
for selling the idea.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I would have no ethical reason to feel cheated, because my
art would still exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My only
reasonable response is to be flattered.</div>
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-North</div>
danielnorth.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115356477035369540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-40480714731328032212013-01-31T10:27:00.000-07:002013-01-31T10:30:08.170-07:00Living Zen<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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All this madness started, a few years back, because a
generous French artist named Elaine, stumbled across my blog and subsequent
paintings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She described my work as “Zen
paintings” and I didn’t know how to handle that moniker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had run-away to Montana to create work
without labels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw myself in a fight
for my life against the parameters of realism, abstraction and other draconian
concepts of defining art.<br />
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<br /></div>
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I immediately read everything I could find with “Zen” in the
title.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most popular choice was
obviously Robert Pirsig’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read
and reread that book at least four times over the course of two years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I initially saw him as the quick-answer to my
passion; however, over time I discarded more and more of his madman cathartic
theories until I was left with only a single passage to build a life:</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the
Zen you bring up there” </span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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I systematically discarded every one of his half-cooked,
hair-brained thoughts to find the simplistic genius I was seeking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized, then, after forsaking 600 pages
of his rants, that the true Zen masters are lost to history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A legitimate guru, Zen master or even dharma bum
will not waste the effort of recording his thoughts, theories, or
passions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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If the meaning of life is to follow your passion to success;
then a dharma-stylized life is the antithesis of measurable success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the meaning of life is exposed through
Zen?</div>
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<br /></div>
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I’d love to ask Richard Branson (Virgin) if he is happy
because he is a rich bugger that can do whatever he pleases or if he is happy
because of his work… or if he is happy.</div>
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<br /></div>
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What brings me joy? Well, obviously painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am equally as content listening to
Robert B. Parker audiobooks, drinking gin, or watching British murder
mysteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is only the guilt that I
feel for practicing useless tasks (pretty much everything listed after
painting) that has me reflecting on this question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But isn’t that self-reproach at conflict with seeking
Zen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living in the moment and basically
doing whatever one feels like (with regard for others, but complete disregard
for long-term personal consequences) is my idea of perfecting Zen.</div>
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-North </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br />
"Good-bye", Oil on Paper, 14"x74", 2012<br />
-North<br />
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