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DanielMaidman: October 2014
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Thursday, October 9, 2014. Your Model Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself. Here is the painting I am working on of Rachel just now. The Athlete Wraps Her Ankle. Work in progress, oil on linen, 40”x30”. Preparatory Sketch for ‘The Athlete Wraps Her Ankle’. Pencil on paper, 15”x11”. As I was drawing, I realized it had triggered some memory in me - it took a little while to place it, but then I remembered. Boy with Thorn, Also Called Fedele, and Spinaro. Roman Copy of a Greek Original. As I was getting ...
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DanielMaidman: June 2014
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Monday, June 16, 2014. Perhaps some of you were wondering what happened with Jerry Saltz after that post. He replied. Dear Daniel Maidman;. Thank you for sending me your “Dear Jerry; Notes on Life Drawing.”. Thank you for giving my few-lines of Facebook comment so much serious thought. I am touched. And not surprised knowing you the way I do. I respect your seriousness and diligence about art. You write that I have “an enormous framework of doctrines within which (your) work makes sense.”. It may have se...
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DanielMaidman: May 2015
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Friday, May 8, 2015. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Blogs Worth Checking Out. Stitch Fix, Part 14, Wherein Kate Shirks Her Duties, But It’s Mostly OK. Dispatches from the Potomac. Movement, Rhythm, Feeling: “Shadows of Hiroshima” and Other Dance Films. Eyes Towards The Dove. RYAN WALLACE @MARKMOOREGALLERY, CALIFORNIA. BP Portrait Award 2016. John Seed: Writing About Art and Artists. Red Buds In The Sunlight. Painting Stuff to Look Like Stuff. Baby's First Art Show.
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DanielMaidman: The Prince and I Sat Down Near the Window
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Sunday, December 21, 2014. The Prince and I Sat Down Near the Window. I’d like to tell you about an adventure along these lines that I wandered into last year. It’s been at the back of my mind to tell it, and it involves extraordinary generosity on the part of somebody else, so it needs telling. Here’s what happened. I love to see art that other artists make working with models I know, and in this case, I felt a very particular sting - the sting of seeing work better than yours based on your model. She i...
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DanielMaidman: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Here is a photograph by Carolyn Marks Blackwood. Which I found moving and powerful. Carolyn Marks Blackwood, photograph, 40”x40”, 2012. So I’d like to explain to you some of what I saw. Blackwood joins in here with the rich history of landscape painting. Landscape is not an easy genre: nature is unruly, and does not wish to order itself into compositions pleasing to our sense of proportion. It is thematically difficult as well. Why do we look at landscapes? Finally, we study land...
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DanielMaidman: November 2014
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014. I’m sure this quirk of mine is true for most artists - how could it be otherwise? It is this: I have a catalogue of elements from other art which persists in my mind, and which I seek to use in my own work. Or, rather, I don’t seek, usually. But when the opportunity presents of its own accord, I am eager to follow up. Consider this painting by William Merritt Chase:. William Merritt Chase, Back of a Nude. 1888, oil on canvas, 18”x13”. And I answered: raw sienna. More crudely...
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DanielMaidman: July 2015
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Friday, July 31, 2015. This post responds to some things that people have been saying to me and about me over the past few years; not you, longtime and much-neglected blog readers, but people on various social media. Work in progress, oil on canvas, 40”x30”, detail. Pretty nice, right? Let’s step back to 2001. Portrait study, oil on canvas, 12”x9”. The catastrophically bad study above was no fluke. Here’s another one from the same period. Portrait study, oil on canvas, 12”x9”. I swear to you I am not mag...
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DanielMaidman: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013. In the meantime, I do have a holiday drawing sale going on - I've marked my 15"x11" drawings down to $175, until December 15th. The most complete archive of the drawings is down the right hand side of this page. On my website. These are drawings of people. Men people and women people. If you go over there, and are of a mind to acquire something for yourself or - earning tremendous classiness points - as a gift, do write down the image names and email me at:. It’s unlik...
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DanielMaidman: March 2014
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Another Solution to the Problem of the Head. Many problems have more than one solution, and not just more than one workable solution, but more than one optimum solution. This means that one may prefer one solution over another, but that no defense can be made of the preferred solution such that the disfavored one is reasonably eliminated. Certainly this scenario pervades the broad and unevenly lit universe of making art. Daniel Maidman, Preparatory Sketch for Blue Leah #2.
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DanielMaidman: Work
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Friday, July 31, 2015. This post responds to some things that people have been saying to me and about me over the past few years; not you, longtime and much-neglected blog readers, but people on various social media. Work in progress, oil on canvas, 40”x30”, detail. Pretty nice, right? Let’s step back to 2001. Portrait study, oil on canvas, 12”x9”. The catastrophically bad study above was no fluke. Here’s another one from the same period. Portrait study, oil on canvas, 12”x9”. I swear to you I am not mag...
