Artist Jay Rolfe is ready to paint on his new painting "Princess Pocahontas and John Rolfe," a Pop Art 3-D painting on shaped stretched canvas. The 8 feet high 3-D canvas is ready to go. That's the photo of the day.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Jay Rolfe's painting on a shaped wood panel of "Falling In Love" is a humorous look at the lust of falling in love. It's the photo of the day.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D paintings, many on shaped stretched canvas, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Clyfford Still often does huge paintings in big patches of black and color with a jagged edge between them. Artist Jay Rolfe saw this one at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC recently. It is titled "1950 B" and, guess what, was painted in 1950. Sorry for the glare reflecting off the surface. The photo of the day is Clyfford Still's "1950 B."
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Here is artist Jay Rolfe's latest masterpiece, "Cash Is King." This Pop Art 3-D shaped stretched canvas (3DSSC) painting is 8 feet high, nearly 4.5 feet wide, and nearly 9 inches deep. The huge dollar sign may resonate deeply with your emotions, maybe even your hidden emotions. Does it? In any event, it's very impressive to see in person because of its huge size, familiar subject, bright color, and imposing depth. Wouldn't you love to have it in your home or office?
The photo of the day is Jay Rolfe's 8 feet high "Cash Is King" Pop Art 3-D painting on shaped stretched canvas.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative Pop Art 3-D sha
ped stretched canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Until artist Jay Rolfe has a photo of his finished "Cash Is King" painting, we'll post another view of Rolfe assembling the 8 feet high 3-D shaped stretched canvas painting. It is today's photo of the day.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Today's photo is of artist Jay Rolfe painting stars on his 2-D painting "Cosmos 7."
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Today's photo is of artist Jay Rolfe painting earlier today. It's a new canvas in his 2-D Cosmos series.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
The photo of the day is of artist Jay Rolfe signing a small 2-D painting "Love Forever" earlier today. Jay Rolfe is creating some small paintings which are variations of his large 3DSSC paintings for those collectors who can't fit a large 3DSSC painting into their home or office.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Last night was OTBN (Open That Bottle Night). It provided an opportunity to display Jay Rolfe's mixed media painting "Wine = Tax Deduction." Today's photo of the day is "Wine = Tax Deduction."
That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create Uplifting Conversation Pieces.
Artist Jay Rolfe is currently reading Hilary Spurling's biography of Henri Matisse, the second volume titled "Matisse The Master." So today's photo is of a painting by Matisse, "Odalisque With Tambourine (Harmony In Blue)" painted in 1926. Artist Jay Rolfe saw the painting at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena CA. Here's the link to the Norton Simon Museum website, http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/highlights.asp?period=20H&page=4&resultnum=42
That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.
Today's photo is an arty photo artist Jay Rolfe took on his morning walk 2 days before Christmas. It's called "The Mists Of Time." The mist was extraordinary that day.
Artist Jay Rolfe finds himself a week into the new year already. It was a great holiday season, filled with family events and a visit from our daughter. We had a great time. Now its back to the art world for artist Jay Rolfe as a participant rather than an observer.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.
Happy New Year! Artist Jay Rolfe wishes you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous 2008. May you be, do, and receive all that you desire.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.
Sunday was a fun day of rest.
That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.
Saturday was a day of administrative tasks related to art and to weekend shopping and chores.
That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe hopes you find his works to be the Uplifting Conversation Pieces he intends.
I spent a very busy Friday on administrative matters relating to my art career.
That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe hopes you find his works to be the Uplifting Conversation Pieces he intends.
Artist Jay Rolfe's photo of the day is the version of Marcel Duchamp's "Bicycle Wheel" in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. I previously posted the Philadelphia Museum of Art's version of "Bicycle Wheel" on my April 12, 2007 post. Duchamp's seemingly banal sculpture had great importance in the art world. It was the beginning of the very significant change in the definition of art to whatever someone who says they are an artist says is art is art. This "it's art because I'm an artist and I say it' art" trend is one that most people not in the art world don't get at all. And some of us in the art world wonder about too.
Now maybe you can have a better understanding of why the surrealist Duchamp and his "Bicycle Wheel" sculpture figures in some of my works.
Here's a link to the MoMA website page on the "Bicycle Wheel" sculpture. http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=81631
Here's an excerpt from the publication "The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights," revised 2004, 87.
"Bicycle Wheel is Duchamp's first Readymade, a class of artworks that raised fundamental questions about artmaking and, in fact, about art's very definition. This example is actually an "assisted Readymade": a common object (a bicycle wheel) slightly altered, in this case by being mounted upside-down on another common object (a kitchen stool). Duchamp was not the first to kidnap everyday stuff for art; the Cubists had done so in collages, which, however, required aesthetic judgment in the shaping and placing of materials. The Readymade, on the other hand, implied that the production of art need be no more than a matter of selection—of choosing a preexisting object. In radically subverting earlier assumptions about what the artmaking process entailed, this idea had enormous influence on later artists, particularly after the broader dissemination of Duchamp's thought in the 1950s and 1960s.
"The components of Bicycle Wheel, being mass-produced, are anonymous, identical or similar to countless others. In addition, the fact that this version of the piece is not the original seems inconsequential, at least in terms of visual experience. (Having lost the original Bicycle Wheel, Duchamp simply remade it almost four decades later.) Duchamp claimed to like the work's appearance, "to feel that the wheel turning was very soothing." Even now, Bicycle Wheel retains an absurdist visual surprise. Its greatest power, however, is as a conceptual proposition."
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe hopes you find his works to be the Uplifting Conversation Pieces he intends.
Artist Jay Rolfe is a car buff. "Body in white" is a term used in the auto industry for the unfinished car at the design stage. It still needs a lot of work before it's ready. That describes the 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas painting of a Ferrari I am currently working on. All the canvas is now stretched for this 3DSSC painting and it looks like a body in white. That's today's photo.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe hopes you find his works to be the Uplifting Conversation Pieces he intends.
Hyper Representational. What is it? It’s one way artist Jay Rolfe describes his paintings. And what better time to discuss it than in the 150th posting to this blog since beginning on February 16, 2007.
Back to Hyper Representational. Is it a new –ism? It could be. Hyper Representationalism. Sounds good.
It’s really the answer to a question artist Jay Rolfe gets all the time, “Are your paintings representational or abstract?” The answer to that question, representational or abstract, has always been, “Not really either.” I didn’t have a good way of describing my paintings. Now I do. Hyper Representational.
Artist Jay Rolfe’s 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas (3DSSC) Paintings are Hyper Representational. They are a larger than life representation or dramatization of powerful, emotional, or fun cultural symbols, or as someone said, cultural symbols on steroids.
In honor of this 150th blog posting, today’s photo is of artist Jay Rolfe with one of his smaller 3DSSC paintings titled “Black Hole” and one of his sculptures titled “Duchamp At The Middle East Peace Table.”
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe hopes you agree his works are Uplifting Conversation Pieces.
Artist Jay Rolfe is stretching canvas for a 3DSSC painting again, and having a tricky time of it. It's taking much longer than usual, with many do-overs. It's the wheel and tire part of the 3DSSC Ferrari sports car that's taking longer than expected. Being small and round and having about 6 inches of depth accounts for the trickiness. Today's photo is of working on the stretching of the canvas. I'll soon be on to painting this 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas painting.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's unique artistic idea, his 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
