JAMDrops

The image is a dynamic expressionistic painting of a semi abstract and distorted boxer. The boxer’s gloved hands are raised in raging triumph. The line quality of the oil stick is jagged adding a frenetic adrenaline-fueled energy to the piece. The visage of the boxer is a staring skull with glaring eyes and snarling clenched jaw clamped onto a mouth guard. The shoulders and chest are wide and powerful.

Today’s ArtDrop is an untitled acrylic with oil stick on linen painting by Jean Michel Basquiat from 1982. It is commonly called ‘Boxer'.

Max Ernst with rocking horse, Paris - ca.1938

Cy Twombly, Rome 1952, photographed by Robert Rauschenberg

1932

The photo shows a skylit stairway/lounge wall with a large horizontal floral artwork made of fourteen panels. The panels float a little in front of the wall casting shadows from the painted sections on the white wall behind the piece.

Today’s ArtDrop is a contemporary piece “Together We Belong Here” a public art installation at the EPA of Illinois headquarters in Springfield, IL by Nnenna Okore. It is made out of etched recycled glass and paint.

From the interior of the building, visitors experience the piece as they travel up a few floors via a stairway.

The photo is of a colorful abstract window design on a modern marble-clad building with installation equipment.

Today’s ArtDrop is ‘Uprising of the Sun’ an 83' painted glass window for the Barack Obama Presidential Library by Julie Mehretu. It was installed in June 2024. The piece was inspired by President Obama’s speech marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama.

I’m gunning to get as much done on “Lover’s ai” as possible so I can upload a work in progress shot on Valentine’s Day.

The image features a print on paper with many symbols floating on a textured blue and turquoise background. Saar’s face peeks in diagonally from the lower right corner. The symbols include: a flower, pair of dice, hand, Saturn, burning heart, crescent moon, eye in a pyramid, lightning bolt, lips, shooting stars, and mask.

Today’s ArtDrop is a lithographic print on paper by Betye Saar. “Mystic Sky with Self Portrait is influenced by the spiritual practices of the African diaspora in the Americas.

I am in a four-artist show, Crossing Currents, with my esteemed colleagues Fletcher Hayes, Kim Laurel, and Jeane Kat McGrail this month at the Elmhurst Artists' Guild Gallery at Elmhurst Art Museum. Join us for the reception on February 27 from 7 to 9 pm.

Franz Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter.

Franz Marc at the frontlines the year he was killed.

I don't know if it is correct or significant to the performance, but I heard he is asking his team to wear blue.

Ah. Between 7 and 7:30 Central!

What time does Bad Bunny drop the Bomba?

The image shows a cool grey, atmospheric landscape under a full moon in the top right. A little offset to the left is the titular oak tree. The tree is huge, old, and gnarled. A man and a woman in early 20th century dress stand arm-in-arm in the bottom right hand of the painting. They are gazing reverently at the old tree.

Today’s ArtDrop is an impressionist nocturne from 1905 by Henry Ossawa Tanner. The oil painting is known under two titles 'Abraham’s Oak' and ‘Oak of Mamre’.

Epstein discredited Zuckerberg by spreading he was gay. Or did Zuckerberg have Epstein investigated, sense a honeypot, and wisely decline invitations?

The image shows a symmetrical celestial reverie of an antediluvian paradise populated by mystical stack of creatures, angels, and noble ancestors on an island in the middle of a sea. The sun rises and sets in the east and the west of the drawing at the low horizon. The top 7th of the painting is a rosy sky filled with clouds, rainbows, flying angels, radiating eyes, flowers, and stars.

Today’s ArtDrop is an outsider drawing with crayon and pencil on paper. Visionary artist Minnie Evans created “Untitled (Day to Night with Beasts and Angels) in 1966.

The image shows a colorful horizontal abstract painting that looks like it was tie dyed. The piece seems to fan out from the bottom center with concentric arcs of blended colors.

Today’s ArtDrop is Sam Gilliam’s ‘Ray II’ a huge abstract acrylic painting on beveled canvas from 1970.

Two bags of vintage mottled copper and burgundy brown glass size 6/0 seed beads in plastic baggies.

I found these vintage beads for the Library of Babel series at Greener Good in Arlington Heights on Wilke Rd. Greener Good is A craft and school supply thrift store. Donate Grandma’s and your unused materials. The spice must flow.

Rebecca spills the piping hot TEA!!!

Better, but that flat weave on such a huge expanse was visually boring and the pupil has to be huge because the AI is into you. Changed to my hexagon weave heart tiles. I think it *might* work? It'll be more visually engaging. I'm going for seduction here.

This piece I'm making on an oval mirror, 'Lover's ai", is giving me a hard time. I first tried weaving a huge horizontal weave net for the pupil and iris but had a weaving flaw and hard to start over. The next attempt, I tried just the pupil with the same weave with coiled brown beads for the iris.

The sculpture is of a realistic man seated cross legged on a base. He wears only a white linen kilt. His posture is upright and attentive. His expression is alert and his hand holds an open scroll on his lap. The right hand is in a position of someone who is writing, but the implement is missing.

Today’s ArtDrop is ‘The Seated Scribe’ an Egyptian sculpture from the Old Kingdom (c. 2500 BC). The sculpture is made of painted limestone.

Painting in a bold color palette and dreamlike style depicting a red field and a bare tree with curving branches. A yellow sun hangs low in the sky surrounded by green, gray, and orange auras.

Painting in a bold color palette and dreamlike style depicting a field with flowers under a sky bursting with energetic abstract shapes and colors.

Painting in a bold color palette and dreamlike style depicting curving greenery around an orange and yellow swampland.

Painting in a bold color palette and dreamlike style depicting a large, drooping purple floral form surrounded by abstracted leaves and paint drips.

Landscape paintings by American artist Shara Hughes, 2010s-20s.

The basic questions repeat over and over in history.

The image shows an overstuffed American flag made out of fabrics of different textures of shiny gold fabrics. The field of stars is entirely covered in gold sequins. The short edges of the flag sport extra long gold fringe. In this photo the flag is displayed on a large pedestal against a wall. The flag is displayed like a the cushion from a piece of patio furniture beckoning the viewer to have a seat. The field of stars is padded more than the stripes and at head level as shown would make a great pillow.

Today’s ArtDrop is 'People Will Think You’re Making a Trump Flag (a yuge one)’ from 2016 by Natalie Baxter. It is from her ‘Bloated Flag’ series and is made of fabric and polyfill. This piece has also been displayed crumpled on the ground.

Canopy Series Commission, 2026. Scrap stained glass and bead mosaic on an 18 x 18" convex mirror.

Me too. I look for it every time!

The image shows a whimsical sculpture of a toddler-like satyr wearing a theater mask that is much too big for his head. The figure thrusts his chubby little arm through the open mouth of the mask with restored ears. A child’s face can be glimpsed through the eye holes. The mask envelopes the figure’s entire upper torso. Below the waist, the base, tree trunk support, left leg, and lower right leg were added to complete the fragmented sculpture in the 19th century.

Today’s ArtDrop is a 19th century restoration of an ancient Roman sculpture fragment known as “Statue of Young Satyr Wearing a Theater Mask of Silenus”.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's book club is reading Vigil by George Saunders this month. Good choice!