Balzer
art
Bus Stop
Some really nice brushwork by a London city worker (click the pic to see a short video):
I love how he draws the letters perfectly while stepping around the wet paint, and his helper occasionally pours yellow paint into his paintbrush hopper.
North Wind In March
. . . the work went well on the picture – I established firmly the great black North motif in the sky, with wind clouds, the largest of which is spewing forth snow-flurries. I think I have established with the relation of the wind-blown red maples in bloom, and the sky and inevitableness which every picture must have – that is, the assurance that absolutely no other arrangement could possibly be right. . . . This picture gives me great joy. How slowly the “secrets” of my art come to me – it seems to me I have been searching all my life for this motif of Black North combined with the wind-cloud and snow-flurry. When I said this to Bertha, she said “aren’t you thankful that at 71 new secrets are being revealed to you?” and I certainly am.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, March 30, 1964
Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), North Wind in March, 1960-66; watercolor, 47 1/2 x 59 1/2 inches; OMAA Permanent Collection, Museum of Art of Ogunquit
Sycamore
Sycamores age beautifully. This is a tree in Germany, somewhere around six feet through at breast height. Photo by Roberto Verzo. CC License, modified from original image.
Bertoia Screen in NYC
Via Corinne Robbins, a look at a restored sculpture in NYC. Sixteen feet tall and seventy feet across, once a screen in Gordon Bunshaft’s Manufacturers Hanover branch bank, it takes up the entire back wall of the second floor of the Joe Fresh clothing store. I like the plentiful and powerful texture and its large presence as an element in the room.
Lab Thing
The “what is it?” from a few days ago, morphed into something else. Spotted at Buffalo Lab.