VIEW IN MY ROOM
On February 12, 1961 I shot my finger off with a gun that my friend Leon’s father didn’t hide too well. We were twelve years old and fooling around with a gun seemed like a good idea. We are both lucky to be alive. After the bullet took my finger off it ricocheted around the room and landed in the waste paper basket. The Detectives found it. Our society is painfully contentious about gun ownership today. Toward the end of Norman Rockwell’s career, he was not afraid of contentious issues in his paintings. My Painting is how I imagine Mr. Rockwell might approach the issue for a Saturday Evening Post cover. It’s taken me a long time to be brave enough and to have the outright hubris to try to do a painting like Mr. Rockwell. I consider him one of the great masters of 20th century art.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14 W x 21 H x 0.7 D in
Frame:Silver
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I have spent a lifetime involved in the creative process of countless compositions for the frame as an actor/writer in theater, film and television. Having also drawn and painted my entire life, my thought process is most often visual. It has been a natural progression for me to evolve into a painter of pictures. Academically, I've studied the Old Masters since I was a young man. Twelve years ago I took up the study of painting in oil with diligence and I am now painting full time. Portraiture interests me particularly in that all the elements I find compelling converge in terms of character study, pictorial composition and academic tradition. The artists I aspire to most, stood at the pinnacle of the genre in their time. I call them "The Big Guns". I have done master copies of the self portraits of Titan, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyke, Velazquez, Vermeer, Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence and John Singer Sargent. "The Big Guns" are mounted on my studio ceiling staring down at me as stern but benevolent guardian angels. Certain standards must be upheld.
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