Tag: Adam’s rants

• Dialogue with an Art Historian: Part Three — The Continuation.

  

  Dialogue with an Art Historian: Part Three — The Continuation.    I have a further follow-up to your previous questions regarding comparing artists from different eras.  I think there’s a basic problem in comparing artists, either in their own era or with respect to artists in other eras. Certainly, it’s interesting to try to detect “influences”…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  December 18, 2021

  Adam’s thoughts about this, that and the other, Adam’s rant, Dialogue with an Art Historian

  Adam’s rants, Dialogue with an Art Historian

• Is it really so dangerous to talk about your art and writing?

  “It seems to me, that the modern painter cannot express his age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or any other past culture. Each age finds its own technique.” — Jackson Pollock Reflections by Adam Donaldson Powell: After having been told for decades to “never explain or discuss…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  October 11, 2020

  Adam Donaldson Powell – All about Adam, Adam Donaldson Powell as visual artist, Adam’s thoughts about this, that and the other, Adam’s rant, Can we talk about our Art and Writing now?

  Adam about painting, Adam as author, Adam’s rants

• New rant: evolution seems to be over-rated …

  CHECK OUT THIS JIMMY KIMMEL SHOW TWEET! PART ONE: When I was in third grade we were expected to be able to name all US state capital cities, make complicated numerical computations in our heads, and be able to recite well-known texts. Magnus Carlsen (world Chess Champion) read books about geography at the age of…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  May 14, 2018

  Adam’s thoughts about this, that and the other, Adam’s rant

  Adam’s rants