{"id":6783,"date":"2017-02-21T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2017-02-21T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:25:47","slug":"studio-journal-22117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/studio-journal-22117\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio journal 2\/21\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always approached painting as a process of carving away and revealing, the way I imagine a sculptor approaches sculpting.  Not modeling but carving.  I bring this up because this unfinished painting, Sub Rosa,<\/em> is a pretty good example of my approach.  <\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

There are many ways to talk about painting, of course.  I used to talk about time<\/em> a lot–dancing in time and suchlike.  It occurred to me one day that I could remove all time references from my discussions about art making and it would make absolutely no difference.  <\/p>\n

Because of my interest in time, I used to put huge stock in spontaneity; it was an important aspect of the way I thought about art making.  But what does spontaneity mean?  Spontaneous compared to what?  A lot of bad contemporary art are attacks on straw men standing in for the ‘what.’ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always approached painting as a process of carving away and revealing, the way I imagine a sculptor approaches sculpting.  Not modeling but carving.  I bring this up because this unfinished painting, Sub Rosa, is a pretty good example of my approach.   Read moreCleveland Museum of Art Opens RenovationsThere are many ways to talk about painting, of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":6777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[251,6,24,19,1,13],"tags":[271,56,134],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-uncategorized","category-vermilion_oh","tag-studio","tag-unfinished-paintings","tag-vermilion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/studio-2017-2-19.gif?fit=800%2C492&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6668,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/studio-journal-11816\/","url_meta":{"origin":6783,"position":0},"title":"Studio journal 1\/18\/16","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Sub Rosa, the unfinished painting on the easel, is moving along. \u00a0The underpainting is nearly done. \u00a0The white-seeming ground visible throughout\u00a0the painting is actually a middle-ish gray tone. \u00a0Compare it with your eyes to the dab of white in the middle of the palette. 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