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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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Art Al FrescoBy John A. Barry Danville’s public information officer recently posted this: Hearing about so many great ways that people are getting creative while...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Mar. 24, 2020There are no comments yet. 3082 Views
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Marcus Shelby QuartetI was fortunate to be a part of the Jazz at Peace concert on February 9 and got a shout-out from the stage by Marcus Shelby, leader of the quartet that played....
Original post made by John A. Barry on Feb. 11, 2014There are no comments yet. 8948 Views
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Symbolike April“April is the cruellest month” opens T.S Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” He wasn’t writing about the IRS, but the fourth month can...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Mar. 31, 2016There are no comments yet. 5955 Views
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Proto-trAction PaintingI (John) paint with bikes, scooters, skates, and other wheeled conveyances. I count Jackson Pollock as a primary influence. Pollock was the avatar of Action Painting,...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Mar. 7, 2018There are no comments yet. 3845 Views
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Transformations
Currently running at Danville's Village Theater Art Gallery is "Lost and Found: an exhibition of upcycled, recycled, and found objects turned into works...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Mar. 18, 2015There are no comments yet. 5668 Views
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The Art of PrintThe word print in the English language precedes Guttenberg by about 200 years. It derives from the Old French priente, "impression," as in an impression pressed...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Nov. 1, 2009There are no comments yet. 5209 Views
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New Gallery to Open in San FranciscoUnable to find a suitable venue in the Danville-San Ramon Area, a group of local artists has secured a space in San Francisco in which to showcase talent from around...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Nov. 13, 2009There are no comments yet. 10888 Views
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Day 1: Primary School
As in colors. Day 1 of our second annual trAction Painting camp, in Pittsburg, CA.
Twenty or so kids, ranging in age from really young to less young,...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Jul. 20, 2015There are no comments yet. 5069 Views
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Art, Wine, Food, Mount DiabloMount Diablo faces much more serious threats than a lunatic who has proposed renaming it Mount Reagan, among other monikers. A relatively large percentage of the...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Apr. 14, 2010There are no comments yet. 5973 Views
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Art and BicyclingKevin Davidson, of San Ramon, is concurrently an artist and a patron of the arts. Self-taught, he works in oil, often portraying religious themes. He is currently...
Original post made by John A. Barry on May. 3, 2010There are no comments yet. 6124 Views
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Danville Fine Arts FairFor several years now, I've been attending the Danville Fine Arts Fair, covering nearly all of Hartz Ave. in downtown Danville. Because of the large number of exhibitors...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Jun. 27, 2010There are no comments yet. 6256 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. 2847 Views
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Eyesore or Art?Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; art is anything you can get away with. These two truisms came to mind as a I read recently in the "Contra Costa Times" about...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Jul. 27, 2010There are no comments yet. 6210 Views
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Art Icon Turns '39'Beth Bachelor is a legend in local art circles. A cofounder of the Alamo Danville Artists' Society (ADAS) in 1977 and the Contra Costa Academy of Fine Art in 2001,...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Aug. 3, 2010There are no comments yet. 6183 Views
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Merger of Music and PaintingLast Sunday I attended and participated in a combination art exhibit and concert at Peace Lutheran Church in Danville. Adorning three walls of the sanctuary are...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Aug. 30, 2014There are no comments yet. 5384 Views
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Art-Full WeekendBy John A. Barry The weekend of August 21 in Danville was an artful one that actually started on Thursday with the annual Art and Wine Stroll. Three art venues...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Aug. 25, 2010There are no comments yet. 6375 Views
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Art About ArtFrom the Greek comes the word ekphrasis, meaning description. A synesthetic art form, ekphrasis is a poem written about another form of art—most often a painting....
Original post made by John A. Barry on Sep. 21, 2010There are no comments yet. 6107 Views
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Strong Artistic ViewsSan Ramon artist Kevin Davidson (whom I profiled in a past column) recently acted on a whim. He decided to contact the Vatican to determine how to submit his spiritual...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Oct. 26, 2010There are no comments yet. 6271 Views
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'Bollywood' On BollingerThe term "Bollywood" (a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood) tends to evoke images of "Slumdog Millionaire" or lush, extravagant musical productions. On November...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Nov. 15, 2010There are no comments yet. 7336 Views
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