Books & Artworks available from William Eaton
A version of Matisse’s 1914 painting of his daughter Marguerite in a leather hat, based on an image appearing in the “Matisse: In search of true painting,” edited by Dorthe Aagesen and Rebecca Rabinow (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012).
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James Joyce called attention to our “epiphanies,” but some of us live through days upon days filled with epiphanies and storms and wild hopes and dullness . . . Et “Quand c’est fini, N-i, ni, ni, Ça recommence” (Léo Ferré). Which leads to a poem overlaid on a drawing, and accompanied by another drawing, done in the café of the Rubin Museum. Vita longa, ars brevis?
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A model turned into a bee by lemon and honey. A model who, out of lipstick, used blood instead. How can this be called “Fun with titles”? Jeremiah, long ago, may have been on to something: “Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace?
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I went to the Whitney Biennial, and, you might say, all I got was this pastiche. (None of it “true,” and this even if we are realizing that true doesn’t mean what we long thought—and wished!—it did.) The subject, the scourge of explanation in art. “Image of the Week” from William Eaton.
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What makes a good artists’ model a good model? An aspect or mood of the model speaking to an aspect or mood of the artist? And what’s in the model’s head or heart matters more than any physical forms, however unclothed? Not to ignore the advantages of bad models and bad moods! Short text accompanied by images from William Eaton’s drawings, and with a closing text adapted from Rilke (on the marriage of model and artist?).
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Comments and translation regarding the renaming of Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s “Portrait d’une négresse”, a.k.a. “Portrait de Madeleine.” This as regards the show “Le modèle noir de Géricault à Matisse” (Musée d’Orsay), earlier known as “Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today.” The comments also touch on Degas’s “Petite Danseuse” and work by Thomas Eakins, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, and the piece includes charcoal drawings by William Eaton.
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Erotic sweet potato drawings/watercolors, done in the manner of Rodin’s erotic drawings? With commentary that begins with John Stuart Mill on happiness, marriage and divorce, and includes a link for a recipe for duck breast (plus sweet potatoes, of course).
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