In the dry pastel portrait “He shaved!”, the artist engages in a compelling dialogue between mid-century American satirical cartooning and European modernist portraiture. Visually dominated by an extraordinarily elongated neck and a flattened, mask-like countenance rendered in pungent ochre, the work destabilizes conventional portraiture to explore themes of exposure, banal absurdity, and the vulnerability of … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – “He shaved!” and the Grotesque Satire of Modern Identity
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #218 – Tea Bowls – Cheetahs
218 – Tea Bowls – Cheetahs The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I stuck on pieces of asphalt, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper and plastic, before sending it to500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #218 – Tea Bowls – Cheetahs
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Self-Portrait, I think…
In the dry pastel drawing titled “Self-portrait, I think,” the artist confronts the traditional genre of self-portraiture not as an act of self-aggrandizement, but as an exercise in existential doubt and comic desublimation. The tentative subtitle, "I think," immediately subverts the artist’s authority over their own likeness, pointing to a contemporary condition of psychological alienation … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Self-Portrait, I think…
Looking For Strange #3
Random lines, following the whims of my hands and inner eye, revealing shapes not seen or envisioned consciously… The paper is turned and turned to find any recognizable patterns. When found, colours are applied to achieve the pattern I think I see. Anything can happen. Hint, I look for what might be eyes and letLooking … Continue reading Looking For Strange #3
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #217 – Tea #13
Tea #13 The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I scored the outside with a fork and dabbed on some grog mixed with brown stain, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #217 – Tea #13
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – The Bathers: Modernity, Gesture, and the Refracted Body
Although titled The Bathers, this work is best read not as a literal transcription of an idyllic bathing scene, but as a contemporary meditation on figure, surface, and mood—explicitly based on David Park’s celebrated 1958 oil painting titled “Bathers”, while also declaring an expanded lineage through Picasso and Modigliani. In its very manner of painting—its flattened spatial field, … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – The Bathers: Modernity, Gesture, and the Refracted Body
No Cap, You’re the Real One: Love Without the Filter – (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 21 for Gen Z)
I’m not like those poets chasing some made-up aesthetic muse,Who hype up a “perfect” beauty like it’s some legendary glow.They drop dramatic lines, making everything look brand new,Turning regular vibes into a fantasy show. I’m not here to gas you up with fake compliments for clout,Or make you sound like some angel from a fairytale … Continue reading No Cap, You’re the Real One: Love Without the Filter – (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 21 for Gen Z)
“No Filter, No BS: Love Without the Fake-Ass Hype” (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 21 for Gen X)
So yeah, I’m not like those poets chasing some damn fantasy muse,Who paint their crush like a flawless goddess in some glossy magazine.They throw around fancy words like they’ve got something to prove,Making ordinary folks sound like some impossible dream. I’m not here to hype you up with a bunch of fake-ass praise,Or sell some … Continue reading “No Filter, No BS: Love Without the Fake-Ass Hype” (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 21 for Gen X)
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Pablo Picasso Isn’t an Asshole
“Pablo Picasso Isn’t an Asshole” operates less as a straightforward portrait than as a pointed, affective argument staged through style, borrowing and refashioning the grammar of modernism to negotiate questions of authorship, temperament, and cultural myth. The work is explicitly based on David Park’s celebrated 1959 oil painting titled “Boy In Stripped Shirt”, but it also … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Pablo Picasso Isn’t an Asshole
“No Filter, No Fake: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 21 and the Modern Search for Authentic Love”
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 21 is one of the poet’s most fascinating reflections on authenticity, artistic integrity, and the difference between genuine admiration and shallow obsession. Unlike many love poems that exaggerate beauty through extravagant comparisons, Sonnet 21 rejects the culture of over-the-top praise. Shakespeare’s speaker argues that true affection does not need fake mythology, impossible … Continue reading “No Filter, No Fake: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 21 and the Modern Search for Authentic Love”