New paintings ... my journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso

Today Jay Rolfe built stretcher frameworks for 2 new 3DSSC paintings. Phew! That was a lot of work. You can see some completed expressions of Jay Rolfe's unique artistic idea on his website at www.3dssc.com.

The Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Art that I visited last Wednesday was about equal to the Sculpture Garden of the Hirshhorn Museum, although the average sculpture was more recent. Alexander Calder's "Red Horse" was cool - a stabile of his was in the Hirshhorn's Sculpture Garden. Louise Bourgeois's huge "Spider" was typically creepy. The large "Typewriter Eraser" by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen was playful. Roy Lichtenstein's "House 1" created an optical illusion, one of those optical illusions that even when you know it's not what it seems, it still looks like it is. I really enjoyed all of them.

That's today's step on the journey of Jay Rolfe From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso.

New paintings in the works ... my journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso

Today Jay Rolfe cut the wood for stretcher frameworks for 3 new 3DSSC (3-D shaped stretched canvas) paintings. It was a beautiful day outside, sunny, breezy, and in the high 70's. I moved my saws and saw horses outside to the driveway and worked near the beautiful crabapple tree in full bloom. It was a glorious afternoon. You can see some completed expressions of Jay Rolfe's unique artistic idea on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.

Last Wednesday when I was in Washington DC, I went to the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden and the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden. I love large outdoor sculpture. Both Sculpture Gardens were fantastic. The Hirshhorn had 2 of my favorite Auguste Rodin Sculptures, "Monument To Blazac" and "Burghers of Calais." Both are also in the collection of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, the second largest collection of Rodin sculptures in the world after the Rodin Museum in Paris. I also recall seeing "Burghers of Calais" at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena CA. There were a number of beautiful Henry Moore sculptures. I liked Arnaldo Pomodoro's bronze "Sphere No. 6" at the Hirshhorn. I also liked "Nymph" by Aristide Maillol. I've seen several similar, at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and LACMA.

That's today's step on the journey of Jay Rolfe From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso.

Hirshhorn Museum ... my journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso

You can see some expressions of Jay Rolfe's unique artistic idea on his website at www.3dssc.com.

On Wednesday I went to the National Gallery and Sculpture Garden and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. As I related in my post on April 25, 2007, I saw the same light sculpture by Robert Irwin at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach CA on Friday, and 5 days later at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, and they looked different because of the intensity of the lighting. Here are photos and links to the two works, first at Orange County and then at the Hirshhorn. The Orange County photo is on the left, and the Hirshhorn photo on the right.

www.ocma.net/index.html?page=highlights&piece=12


http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/record.asp?Artist=Robert%20Irwin&OnView=1&ViewMode=&Record=1


I like the one at the Hirshhorn more, as the work recedes or merges more into the background so it's hard to tell what is acrylic disk and what is shadow on the wall (the disk and shadows together make up the work). I hope you can see the difference from the photos.

That's the next step on the journey of Jay Rolfe From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso.