Cincinnatus art… NEW PAINTING COMPLETE (Page 10, August 6) (Page 6 of 11)
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The next painting will be based on Dante's Inferno, Canto 3: "Here sighs with lamentations and loud moans Resounded through the air pierc'd by no star, That e'en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, With hands together smote that swell'd the sounds, Made up a tumult, that for ever whirls Round through that air with solid darkness stain'd, Like to the sand that in the whirlwind flies. I then, with error yet encompass'd, cried: "O master! What is this I hear? What race Are these, who seem so overcome with woe?" He thus to me: "This miserable fate Suffer the wretched souls of those, who liv'd Without or praise or blame, with that ill band Of angels mix'd, who nor rebellious prov'd Nor yet were true to God, but for themselves Were only. From his bounds Heaven drove them forth, Not to impair his lustre, nor the depth Of Hell receives them, lest th' accursed tribe Should glory thence with exultation vain." I then: "Master! what doth aggrieve them thus, That they lament so loud?" He straight replied: "That will I tell thee briefly. These of death No hope may entertain: and their blind life So meanly passes, that all other lots They envy. Fame of them the world hath none, Nor suffers; mercy and justice scorn them both. Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by." And I, who straightway look'd, beheld a flag, Which whirling ran around so rapidly, That it no pause obtain'd: and following came Such a long train of spirits, I should ne'er Have thought, that death so many had despoil'd. When some of these I recogniz'd, I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear Yielding, abjur'd his high estate. Forthwith I understood for certain this the tribe Of those ill spirits both to God displeasing And to his foes. These wretches, who ne'er lived, Went on in nakedness, and sorely stung By wasps and hornets, which bedew'd their cheeks With blood, that mix'd with tears dropp'd to their feet, And by disgustful worms was gather'd there. |
"…unrivaled fervor for killing..."
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Stack them in the corner of the garage and start a new one.  Ever contact a gallery? The concept behind these works are inspiring. Latex paint? WOW! |
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BeefSwellington is already taken, and I'm pissed I didn't think of it first.
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BeefSwellington is already taken, and I'm pissed I didn't think of it first.
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Originally Posted By Albob: How many do you have "stacked"? Ever contact a gallery? The concept behind these works are inspiring. Latex paint? WOW! Originally Posted By Albob: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Stack them in the corner of the garage and start a new one. Ever contact a gallery? The concept behind these works are inspiring. Latex paint? WOW! I almost have enough for a show. There are no good galleries in this area.. I plan to leverage contacts in NYC in a few months. |
"…unrivaled fervor for killing..."
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Michelangelo also did a copy: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_8865-3576614.jpg Pretty lame. Like a coloring book version.Well, he was a child when he did it. |
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Title suggestions? “Shock and Awe” “The Blitz” “Blitzkrieg” “GTFO” An old Renaissance theme came to mind: "The Garden of Earthly Delights" |
Obedience is not patriotism. Patriotism is love of your country, not of your government.
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| I like GTFO in the title. It has kind of a William Blake feel, putting a punchy modern name onto something like this. I thought of that because his book Marriage of Heaven and Hell describes a satanic scene where a black sun is surrounded by rings of demonic spiders with an abyss below, probably his take on similar source material, but the title had built in irony over something to do with the french revolution |
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Originally Posted By 56xdx_Z: I like GTFO in the title. It has kind of a William Blake feel, putting a punchy modern name onto something like this. I thought of that because his book Marriage of Heaven and Hell describes a satanic scene where a black sun is surrounded by rings of demonic spiders with an abyss below, probably his take on similar source material, but the title had built in irony over something to do with the french revolution Great Blake visuals… |
"…unrivaled fervor for killing..."
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ChatGPT is creating images of Pope Celestine V, based upon his silver death mask (created in modern times, based on forensic study of his skull). Multiple angles. Why? Dante put him there at the threshold of Hell. The year Dante wrote that part of “Inferno,” Celestine V was canonized, as a Saint. Bold move. Needs to be in the painting.    Etc… |
"…unrivaled fervor for killing..."
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Each blob means something specific. Ask away… Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Originally Posted By brass: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Just for fun, here’s one from 23 years ago. Latex on aluminum. 6’x4’. One panel of seven of an abstract auto-biography. This one covers age 25-30. Ask any question about the details. EVERYTHING means something. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_3486-3657001.jpg And here people are telling me I have a messed up and twisted life.  Each blob means something specific. Ask away… What is the light blue/teal/black circular feature lower right, at bottom and just in from the long intestine on right. Seeing all the vscera, which are more gutsy looking than anything I came up with when trying -- Were you a medic in wartime? |
The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Originally Posted By brass: What is the light blue/teal/black circular feature lower right, at bottom and just in from the long intestine on right. Seeing all the vscera, which are more gutsy looking than anything I came up with when trying -- Were you a medic in wartime? Originally Posted By brass: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Originally Posted By brass: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Just for fun, here’s one from 23 years ago. Latex on aluminum. 6’x4’. One panel of seven of an abstract auto-biography. This one covers age 25-30. Ask any question about the details. EVERYTHING means something. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_3486-3657001.jpg And here people are telling me I have a messed up and twisted life. Each blob means something specific. Ask away… What is the light blue/teal/black circular feature lower right, at bottom and just in from the long intestine on right. Seeing all the vscera, which are more gutsy looking than anything I came up with when trying -- Were you a medic in wartime? That was me surfing a solid left at China Walls in Hawaii Kai, 1994. Best wave ever. Each bit of viscera is a linear representation of a known person moving through space and time. |
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: That was me surfing a solid left at China Walls in Hawaii Kai, 1994. Best wave ever. Each bit of viscera is a linear representation of a known person moving through space and time. Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Originally Posted By brass: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Originally Posted By brass: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Just for fun, here’s one from 23 years ago. Latex on aluminum. 6’x4’. One panel of seven of an abstract auto-biography. This one covers age 25-30. Ask any question about the details. EVERYTHING means something. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_3486-3657001.jpg And here people are telling me I have a messed up and twisted life. Each blob means something specific. Ask away… What is the light blue/teal/black circular feature lower right, at bottom and just in from the long intestine on right. Seeing all the vscera, which are more gutsy looking than anything I came up with when trying -- Were you a medic in wartime? That was me surfing a solid left at China Walls in Hawaii Kai, 1994. Best wave ever. Each bit of viscera is a linear representation of a known person moving through space and time. So all the panels combined is an autobiographical set? If you sold one from the middle would that be like tearing a piece of you away? Maybe try and do a few kitch/banal simple paintings to sell as original or prints and keep your diary paintings for display only? |
The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Another set of photos from much older work… All at least 6’ tall. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_9660-3671531.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_9663-3671532.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_9664-3671533.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_9662-3671534.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/IMG_9661-3671535.jpg Very nice work, especially considering the scale and the painting supplies used (spray paint, house paint [ala Jackson Pollack]) It is very impressive and all of them have a strong organic feel to them. |
The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: ChatGPT is creating images of Pope Celestine V, based upon his silver death mask (created in modern times, based on forensic study of his skull). Multiple angles. Why? Dante put him there at the threshold of Hell. The year Dante wrote that part of “Inferno,” Celestine V was canonized, as a Saint. Bold move. Needs to be in the painting. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/8DB6CFFF-A400-4ACF-8CFF-AB45F1C1238E-3662494.png https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/349CBD92-CC36-4E54-829F-3027D84B358E-3662495.pnghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/5EAB198A-1E39-4C58-BA89-D9FFFB205A67-3662496.png Etc… Looking forward to how you do this. 
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Originally Posted By guns762: Looking forward to how you do this. Originally Posted By guns762: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: ChatGPT is creating images of Pope Celestine V, based upon his silver death mask (created in modern times, based on forensic study of his skull). Multiple angles. Why? Dante put him there at the threshold of Hell. The year Dante wrote that part of “Inferno,” Celestine V was canonized, as a Saint. Bold move. Needs to be in the painting. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/8DB6CFFF-A400-4ACF-8CFF-AB45F1C1238E-3662494.png https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/349CBD92-CC36-4E54-829F-3027D84B358E-3662495.pnghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/5EAB198A-1E39-4C58-BA89-D9FFFB205A67-3662496.png Etc… Looking forward to how you do this. I already scrapped the initial wood panel. TOO SMALL. Going bigger… |
"…unrivaled fervor for killing..."
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: I already scrapped the initial wood panel. TOO SMALL. Going bigger… Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Originally Posted By guns762: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: ChatGPT is creating images of Pope Celestine V, based upon his silver death mask (created in modern times, based on forensic study of his skull). Multiple angles. Why? Dante put him there at the threshold of Hell. The year Dante wrote that part of “Inferno,” Celestine V was canonized, as a Saint. Bold move. Needs to be in the painting. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/8DB6CFFF-A400-4ACF-8CFF-AB45F1C1238E-3662494.png https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/349CBD92-CC36-4E54-829F-3027D84B358E-3662495.pnghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/5EAB198A-1E39-4C58-BA89-D9FFFB205A67-3662496.png Etc… Looking forward to how you do this. I already scrapped the initial wood panel. TOO SMALL. Going bigger… 
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Drafted an “artist statement” Give me notes: I work with large ideas that court ego and hubris: Icarus, the Tower of Babel, Dante’s Inferno, the War in Heaven, Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons, Fibonacci and Divine proportions, alongside subjects that are just as epic and far more personal: combat, PTSD, death, and injury. These paintings are deliberately excessive in scale and ambition, built to hold weight. The work begins with a limited structure. The subject and overall composition are loosely determined in advance, not to prescribe outcomes but to establish a field in which decisions can occur. Over-sketching and rigid planning collapse the possibility of discovery, so the painting is not designed in full before it begins. The first action, often a pour or throw of paint, is intentional and decisive, like the opening phrase of a performance or the crossing of a line of departure. Everything that follows responds to that moment. The paintings are made through hundreds of layers of poured, thrown, and splashed paint, embedded with feathers, hair, sticks, and other detritus. Each layer is considered in real time, judged against what has already occurred. Control and accident coexist. I rely on error, misjudgment, and disruption to force new solutions. What might appear chaotic is in fact a continuous process of adjustment, an action and reaction unfolding across the surface. Improvisation operates within constraint. The larger subject holds the work together while the painting finds its form through accumulated decisions. Like an improvised solo held inside a fixed harmonic space, meaning emerges through duration, repetition, and variation rather than premeditated design. The balance of formal elements and narrative shifts as the painting develops, guided by intuition sharpened through experience. This process, responding, correcting, accepting, and pushing forward, is where the energy of the work resides. The paintings are not executions of an idea, but records of a sustained engagement with uncertainty, structure, and consequence. |
"…unrivaled fervor for killing..."
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: New one starting tomorrow. Will have a tilted horizon. Did you find anything out about a gallery or other type of exhibition? |
The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Drafted an "artist statement" Give me notes: The paintings are made through hundreds of layers of poured, thrown, and splashed paint, embedded with feathers, hair, sticks, and other detritus. Each layer is considered in real time, judged against what has already occurred. Control and accident coexist. I rely on error, misjudgment, and disruption to force new solutions. What might appear chaotic is in fact a continuous process of adjustment, an action and reaction unfolding across the surface. |
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Originally Posted By torstin: Most interesting. Are you self taught? Im curious what type of background led to the variety of techniques. Originally Posted By torstin: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: Drafted an "artist statement" Give me notes: The paintings are made through hundreds of layers of poured, thrown, and splashed paint, embedded with feathers, hair, sticks, and other detritus. Each layer is considered in real time, judged against what has already occurred. Control and accident coexist. I rely on error, misjudgment, and disruption to force new solutions. What might appear chaotic is in fact a continuous process of adjustment, an action and reaction unfolding across the surface. 100% self-taught. In spite of a Masters in Fine Arts. |
"…unrivaled fervor for killing..."