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The Perfect Landscape Paintingby Bill Carmel, MFA The painting begins late morning with a hike up a path to a view so splendid, wondrous, and arresting that walking stops. I sit...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Feb. 21, 2021Last comment by Sandra Roe, on Feb 28, 2021 at 4:23 am | 1 comment | 1214 Views
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Theater in the Time of CoronaBy John A. Barry If all the world’s a stage, 2020 has presented a series of tragedies: plague, infernos, Beijing-plus air…. Amid all this,...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Sep. 15, 2020There are no comments yet. 1061 Views
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The Ballad of Andy and RockyThe Ballad of Andy and Rocky Uploaded: Jul 2, 2020 By Bill Carmel, MFA This blog entry memorializes the recent painting of a mural for the Lamorinda Arts...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Jul. 11, 2020Last comment by Elizabeth Hopkins-Kurz, on Jul 28, 2020 at 10:33 am | 7 comments | 1812 Views
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Visual Games During Shelter-in-PlaceBy Bill Carmel, MFA During this time of shelter-in-place, keeping busy in healthy and creative ways challenges even the cheeriest of personalities. Artists...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Apr. 7, 2020Last comment by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel, on Jul 2, 2020 at 7:13 am | 5 comments | 2138 Views
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Deconstruction of a Visual Pun Based on a Veritable BunglerBy John A. Barry In our last installment, Bill wrote about engendering shelter-in-place creativity via “visual thought experiments concerning metaphors...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Apr. 29, 2020Last comment by Cholo, on Jun 25, 2020 at 9:36 am | 5 comments | 2031 Views
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Art Al FrescoDanville’s public information officer recently posted this: Hearing about so many great ways that people are getting creative while under the shelter order....
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Mar. 23, 2020There are no comments yet. 33 Views
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The Art of Bill DiMichele: Cross Section of a Moment==I A celebration of the art of the late artist Bill DiMichele, titled “Cross Section of a Moment,” featuring more than 45 large-scale acrylic paintings—together...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Feb. 25, 2020Last comment by Jim Gunshinan, on Feb 27, 2020 at 9:56 am | 2 comments | 3094 Views
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The Art of NewspeakBy John A. Barry Eric Blair (better known as George Orwell) was a prescient literary artist. Orwell famously predicted that “Big Brother is watching...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Feb. 6, 2020Last comment by Cher Pascual, on Feb 11, 2020 at 11:55 pm | 9 comments | 2707 Views
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FireBy John A. Barry I’m very late in getting this written, but you still have a chance to visit No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, at the Oakland...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Jan. 20, 2020There are no comments yet. 1798 Views
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Tissot Goes to the Movies and the LibraryThe exhibition James Tissot: Fashion and Faith is at the Palace of the Legion of Honor until February 9, 2020 By John A. Barry Thomas Campbell, director...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Dec. 1, 2019Last comment by Cholo, on Dec 7, 2019 at 3:45 pm | 2 comments | 3178 Views
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Art Inside-Out, Body of Work (Literally)Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin FAMSF de Young Museum. Through October 6, 2019 See Ed Hardy break through the establishment rubble to see the light of day at the...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Sep. 13, 2019Last comment by Cholo, on Oct 10, 2019 at 11:26 am | 5 comments | 3225 Views
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Paul Krassner (1932-2019) An AppreciationBy John A. Barry When Paul Krassner was referred to as the “father of the Yippie (Youth International Party) movement," his response was, “I...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Jul. 24, 2019Last comment by Cholo, on Jul 28, 2019 at 11:49 am | 1 comment | 1749 Views
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O’Neill Goes to the MoviesBy John A. Barry The film industry has been good (and not so good) to Eugene O’Neill, who lived at Tao House in the Danville hills from 1937 to 1943,...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on May. 7, 2019Last comment by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel, on Jul 13, 2019 at 9:19 am | 2 comments | 1832 Views
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Rubens and O'Neill This SummerThis installment of Art Space ==I is a twofer. Bill Carmel writes about the largely unknown side of Rubens the artist: the diplomat. John Barry provides an...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Jun. 19, 2019Last comment by Bill, on Jul 11, 2019 at 7:59 pm | 4 comments | 2208 Views
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The Immersive Experience: Monet at the de Young, February 16 to May 27By Bill Carmel, MFA Few artists have the opportunity to be the agents of change in the course of art history throughout their lifetimes. After years of struggle,...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Mar. 18, 2019Last comment by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel, on Apr 2, 2019 at 4:35 pm | 4 comments | 2946 Views
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The Evolution of ‘Vanity’ PublishingBy John A. Barry The ads were omnipresent. I remember seeing them in theNew York Times, the Boston Globe, and even in my hometown paper in...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Mar. 6, 2019Last comment by avakin life on pc, on Mar 25, 2019 at 4:28 am | 2 comments | 1570 Views
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You Can’t Kill These ParasitesI have to go frequently to my/Bill’s posts to kill/edit digital disease spread by online parasites trying to sell crap through various links. The problem is...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Nov. 8, 2018Last comment by Cholo, on Nov 29, 2018 at 2:21 pm | 3 comments | 1800 Views
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Eugene O’Neill in Danville, Past and PresentBy John A. Barry It’s surprising how few people in the area know that one of America’s greatest playwrights lived in Danville in the 1940s....
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Aug. 29, 2018Last comment by Elle, on Oct 12, 2018 at 1:22 am | 1 comment | 2062 Views
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Painterly PlagiarismEight sections of this van are painted in the style of eight artists. Can you identify them?
Hints (left to right): color theorist, color fields,...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Jul. 17, 2018Last comment by John Barry, on Jul 22, 2018 at 8:12 pm | 5 comments | 1912 Views
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Magritte at the SFMOMA: Enigma, Conundrum, ParadoxA review by Bill Carmel, MFA The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents an extensive exhibition titled René Magritte: ==I The Fifth Season,...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Jun. 6, 2018Last comment by bolton, on Jul 5, 2018 at 12:33 am | 11 comments | 3240 Views
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