http://johnfirestone.com/blog Quinacridone, Pthalo, Interference, Iridescent, Transparent, and Gold Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:52:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My writing on my http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/09/08/preoccupations-with-breads-and-circuses/ As much as I like writing my other blog I am quickly finding out that I can’t be as quick witted or hot tempered there. There is a certain amount of respectability I want to maintain with that particular blog, for the kids if nothing else, but this blog will ... http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/08/20/8-20-06/ I have recently signed with PennLive.com to write a blog for thier entertainment section. It will be an art based Blog. This blog will be mostly dormant for the time being. Please check out the other Blog called Iridescent Art News at http://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/iridescentart/blog/ http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/08/03/new-blog/ There are new pictures on my website www.johnfirestone.com They are primarily of portraits and still life’s from my new 4’s series where I am painting the same subject 4 different times and displaying them together. Sometimes Velasquez is my subject and I jump around from portrait to portrait. It was ... http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/07/19/new-paintings/ Lee Rosenbaum is an awesome art voice. Her delivery and her methods have the sound of tremendous wisdom and wit. I wish I would have learned about her sooner and I suggest that anyone who has interest in art and the art world and even art gossip should read her ... http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/07/15/the-culturegrrl/ The success of One Red Paperclip is amazing. This experiment goes to show just how amazing the internet is for the transmition of ideas. One man with an idea and a little internet knowledge traded one red paperclip up and up for different items until they got a house and ... http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/07/11/one-red-paperclip/ Looking at an Elizabeth Peyton painting is like eating candy with your eyes. It looks like she paints with melted “Jolly Ranchers.” I am in total lust with the surfaces of her paintings, and I think that she and many other are in lust with the subjects that she paints. ... http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/07/09/my-lust-for-elizabeth-peyton/ Misinterpretation and narrow mindedness can scathe a mans soul. I have always suspected that the work I decide to produce ends up being a little challenging and disturbing. Today I was talking about art – I pushed the conversation in that direction because everyone else was talking about football and ... http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/07/04/narrow-minded-reactions/ About 6 years or so ago I was a youngish student at Murray State University. Sam Gilliam was a visiting artist giving a lecture about his work. I don’t know how Murray state got him but it was well worth it. Before his lecture I was talking with another ... http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/07/03/sam-gilliam/ My slat paintings are now up in the second floor gallery. I have been working on this series for the last year of my life. I am so excited about it because it encompasses everything that I have been thinking in the last year or so. It deals with Matrices, ... http://johnfirestone.com/blog/2006/07/02/slat-paintings-and-non-acceptance/