Happy Thanksgiving.
Age Before Beauty, 1993-2011, oil study into monotype on paper. 20″ x 16″
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Oil Paint Over Older Monotype: Age Before Beauty
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionist, figurative, Miscellaneous, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist figure painting, figurative painting, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on November 24, 2011 by Tom BennettHedy
Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil over monotype, oil painting, Painting, paper, Tom Bennett on November 17, 2011 by Tom BennettLeafing through the archives of not-quite successful prints, I came across a good candidate. I didn’t document it in its original stage, as I haven’t really done for most of the pieces in this series, but suppose I should. I will, however, search for a slide of it, which I am almost positive I have catalogued somewhere in the cave I call my studio.
I’m not isolating the printmaking paper with hide glue or gesso or anything. It should last at least until a meteor hits the earth, destroying civilization as we know it.
Hedwigs’s Spread Spectrum, oil over monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
Flesh In Pixels
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, Art, at time's expense, bored, Collage, digital, figure, flesh, nude, steph gerolimatos, things to look at on November 5, 2011 by ssstephg
digital collage
Because of things and stuff, I spent far too much time this week. I spent it and now it’s gone. If time were money, I’d be broke. I have no idea what it means in this context that I AM broke. Anyway, as you can see,I fucked around with pixels instead of paint.
That’s it.
-Steph
p.s. I love Crooked Fingers. Mine are, too, crooked I mean.
Anachronism
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, NYC, oil paint on monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on November 3, 2011 by Tom BennettI’m writing this on the 2 V’s, vicodin and vodka, as I try to recover from a kick-arse flu.
This is an oil painting on paper.
Anachronism, oil paint over printmaking ink on paper, 20″ x 16″
Mountains of the Bedroom
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, oil painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, figure, nude, oil on paper, oil over monotype, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on October 27, 2011 by Tom Bennett
oil into monotype on paper
30″ x 20″
Available for sale
Submissive
Posted in Art, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, dominant, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil on paper, Painting, printmaking, submissive, Tom Bennett on October 20, 2011 by Tom BennettThis is pending sale, pending on spending.
Submissive, Oil over monotype on printmaking paper, 20″ x 16″
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Posted in Art, art on paper, art school, current events, events, exhibits, figurative, Miscellaneous, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, openings, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags exhibit, figurative painting, figure, fundraising event, mixed media, monotype, nude, nude woman, oil on paper, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Silvermine Arts Center, small paint, Tom Bennett on October 6, 2011 by Tom BennettSilvermine Art Center in New Canaan, CT is organizing a fundraising event it has hosted for 10 years now, Signed, Sealed and Delivered. It’s an art sale and auction designed for collectors and art lovers featuring over 500 small, 4″ x 6″ original works in all media for sale at $50 each, to benefit the Center’s programs and outreach.
I’m contributing these 3 tiny paintings, all oil over monotype on Rives BFK printmaking paper. I rarely, if ever, paint this small with oil and I find it to be a disciplined exercise in control and direct manipulation of materials and form. Hellzalotta of fun.
Tom
SSD 1, oil on monotype on paper, 6″ x 4″
SSD 2, oil on monotype on paper, 6″ x 4″
SSD 3, oil on monotype on paper, 4″ x 6″
Purgatory Can be a Happy Medium
Posted in Art, art on paper, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags Art, figure, monotype, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on September 29, 2011 by Tom BennettThis was an very old, unresolved monotype I’m painting back into and as it’s developed, I realized that a bit of my father’s design sensibility had creeped in; the Dante series to be specific. I’m not quite sure about the lower portion with abstracted stalagmite ink streaks. I wanted to have an area to strike a tense balance down there. What do you think?
A Bow to Purgatory, oil over monotype on Rives BFK paper, 24″ x 18″
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Below is a painting on monotype from last week.
The queen in the Afternoon, oil on monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
Paint, Print, Paper, Pigeon
Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, figure, monotype, monotype printmaking, nude, oil on monotype, oil on paper, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on September 22, 2011 by Tom BennettI’m continuing the exercise of painting over monotypes and I’m just exploring the application and reaction of the oil on printmaking paper. The paper is a medium to heavy weight Stonehenge brand and absorbs the oil paint and turps relatively quickly; the opposite of the method used in making the monotypes, since with the monos its about oil based paint and ink applied to plexiglass: no tooth nor absorption but simply a resistant glassy surface that the paint glides over. With painting directly on the paper, its about discovering the various lengths of time different paint films and colors tack up and how they interact with paint layers placed over them. I’m allowing and developing loose abstracted form with these early stages. Technically these could be called either paintings or monotypes, but you can call them anything you want. If it’s a four-letter word, I don’t really need to know about it.
Pigeon is old slang for a young woman, back when men were men and misogynist was a 10-letter word.
T.B.
Old Ruling Class Revise, oil on monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
The original monotype:
there are many formal aspects of the print that I really like and have been changed and obliterated. Ah well. You must destroy to create to destroy again.
Oslo
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Drawing, figure, ink and pencil, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett on July 28, 2011 by Tom Bennett
Oslo
india ink, benzyl ink, pencil, graphite and gouache on paper
Unconscious Crab Roll on the Beach
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, Drawing, figure, mixed media, nude, sketch, Tom Bennett on July 14, 2011 by Tom BennettAnother quick sketch between lunch and the next thing.
I’m thinking about the cottage and the lobster and the sea. Not that this image necessarily says that.
mixed media: pencil, graphite, ink, benzyl ink, gouache on paper; 9″ x 12″
Pussy Cats and Dead Girls
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, monotype, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, Drawing, figure, ink and pencil, monotype, nude, nude and cat, sketch, Tom Bennett on July 7, 2011 by Tom BennettThat sounds like a good title for a hard-boiled pulp detective novel by someone named Max Phillips, doesn’t it?
Nude and Cat
mixed media on paper, 12″ x 9″
Figure and Cat
mixed media on paper, 12″ x 9″
Sketch of a Nude
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, mixed media, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, Drawing, figure, landscape, mixed media, nude, paper, Tom Bennett on June 23, 2011 by Tom Bennettanother pencil/ink/mixed media sketch
Nude as Landfill 2, mixed media on paper 8″ x 10″
Art Monkey and the Aborted Doodle
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Drawing, figure, nude, Tom Bennett on June 16, 2011 by Tom BennettI’m back in my midtown studio playing the court jester of drawing. While I was waiting on what is known as a “CD”, I started and abandoned this scratchy scrawl. pencil, ink, xylene, gouache and angst. yeah, right.
Nude as Landfill
Monotypes from Life, Indirectly
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, monotype, nude, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, art on paper, bestiality, cat, figure, life drawing, monotype, monotype printmaking, nude, printmaking, Sleep, Tom Bennett on May 19, 2011 by Tom BennettTo be clear, if one is making a monotype from life, working from a an inanimate subject like a still life doesn’t pose many problems. working from a live landscape is more challenging in that one requires a press(if one is using a press) to be nearby, and working from the live model is only problematic if the model becomes uncomfortable since the process can be a stop and start, dragged out thing. The monotypes below were made from life “once removed”, in that I drew the model in a sketchbook first and then created the monos from the drawings.
Tom Bennett
Rex and Rabbit 1, monotype, 16″ x20″
Rex and Rabbit 2, monotype, 16″ x 20″
Work in Progress Painting
Posted in Art, figurative, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags dante divine comedy, figure, harry bennett, heavy nude, nude, oil on panel, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress on May 12, 2011 by Tom BennettWork in progress, another in the series “Old Ruling Class”.
The support is a cradled masonite board treated with a white clay ground, which produces a nice balanced surface that is both a resist and absorbing platform which allows me to do reductive mark-making with tools such as a razor blade, which is a technique my father, Harry, used to great effect in a number of projects such as his Divine Comedy series.
Harry celebrates his 92nd birthday this weekend. Happy Birthday, Dad!
Old ruling Class 5, wip
oil on board, 24″ x18″
Sexual Assault Can Lead to Liver Damage
Posted in Art, homage, male nude, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags abstract, allegory, Art, baroque, expression, figure, homage, male nude, nude, oil painting, Painting, punishment, retribution, symbolist painting, titian, Tityus, Tom Bennett on May 5, 2011 by Tom BennettTityus was the Greek mythological character who was put to death for assaulting a daughter of Zeus and sentenced to be eternally chained in the great pit of Tartarus, a greek version of hell, while his liver (thought to hold passionate emotion, ie, anger) was gnawed at by vultures and snakes. This story of eternal struggle and retribution is similar to the Prometheus myth and in ways to the narrative of Sisyphus. Titian apparently loved this line of metaphor; he made paintings of all of these subjects. Last year I made a monotype based on his Sisyphus.
I see existential analogies between ancient myth and the contemporary human condition and have always been intrigued by the dark gothic drama of baroque allegorical art. Here I’ve taken multiple images from allegorical paintings and overlapped them, searching for some kind of combination of grace, jaggedness and abstracted puzzlement.
As with any just completed piece I post, I’m still pondering adjustments.
Considering the connection to sclerosis and retribution, I’ve invented a new drink, The Bin Laden: 2 shots and a splash of water. (apologies to the ultra sensitive)
Thanks, I’ll be here all week. Enjoy the veal.
Tom Bennett
Weekend at Tartarus, oil on panel, 28″ x 48″
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Commitment and Non-Commitment
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, figure, monotype, monotype printmaking, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on April 28, 2011 by Tom BennettTwo recent monotypes and a painting. The painting is in a stage of quasi-resolution in a process.
Tom Bennett
Spring 2, 2011, monotype, 16″ x 20″
Spring 1, 2011, monotype, 16″ x20″
Non-Committal, 2011, oil on panel, 18″ x24″
The Old Ruling Class 4 and Art of the Northeast
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, events, exhibits, figurative, homage, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags art exhibits, Art of the Northeast, exhibit, monotype, nude, Painting, printmaking, Silvermine Guild, Tom Bennett on April 14, 2011 by Tom BennettI haven’t been in my printshop in weeks so when I found myself with some time the other night I crawled into my basement, where the etching press is located and made some images. I used some lower grade oil paint along with the professional grade inks and came up with an almost realized print. When it was dry I went back into it with oil sticks. I’m placing it into the series of nudes I started a couple of months ago.
The Old Ruling Class 4, monotype, 20″ x16″
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Art of The Northeast
The annual regional survey “Art of the Northeast”, representing artists from New England, New York and New Jersey, is up again at The Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT. http://www.silvermineart.org/about-silvermine/directions.cfm
I have this painting in the show. It’s a take on Caravaggio’s The Crucifixion of St. Peter.
The juror this year is Tom Eccles, Executive director, Bard College, Curatorial Studies Program.
The opening is this Saturday, 4PM to 7PM
Pete’s Going Away, 2011, oil on panel, 40″ x 30″
Abduction and Marriage
Posted in abstract, Art, figurative, homage, narrative art, nude, oil painting, Painting, rape, technique, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress with tags abstract, Art, figurative painting, homage, nude, oil on panel, oil painting, Painting, rape, rubens, Tom Bennett on March 24, 2011 by Tom BennettRubens’s Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus confronts the viewer with an interpretative dilemna. The composition illustrates the story recounted by Theocritus and Ovid of how the twin brothers Castor and Pollux (called the Dioscuri) forcibly abducted and later married the daughters of King Leucippus. Rubens’s depiction of the abduction is marked by some striking ambiguities: an equivocation between violence and solicitude in the demeanor of the brothers, and an equivocation between resistance and gratification in the response of the sisters. The energized ebullience and sensual appeal of the group work to override our darker thoughts about the coercive nature of the abduction.
I’ve decided to take this painting and place it in another ambiguous and disconnected space, distorting much of the narrative and for lack of a better cliché, recontextualizing. At this late stage it still needs some tweeking and resolution of various passages.
Tom Bennett
Sisters, oil on panel, 24″ x 30″
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