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Issue 14September 8, 2010

Abstract Expressionism: JimmyErnst (1920 1984)

Jimmy Ernst was an American painter

born in Germany and the son of MaxErnst, the surrealist artist.y

Ernst became director ofThe Art ofThis Century Gallery in 1942. A year

later he had his first one-personexhibition. During the late 1940s he

became a member of the The Irascible

Eighteen, a group of abstract paintersand posed for a famous picture in

1950. Members of the group includeWillem de Kooning and Jackson

Pollock.

Ernst was considered as an artists a

His sensitivity and honesty with hiswork, life and with his friends set him

apart from just being a painter. His

paintings and influence came fromwithin, from his experiences and loveof jazz.

His work were varied, oil on canvas,ink and gouache on paper, collage

elements and painted sculpture. In his

early years in New York, he workedwith Rudy Blesh for Circle Records and

designed covers for the jazz musician,

Baby Dodds.

Featured Artist: Mark Chadwick

Mark Chadwick has been studying fineart at Birmingham City University and

Sutton Coldfield College since 2001.He explores a wide range of methods

in painting, drawing, photography,sculpture and print. His main area of

interest is painting and his recentworks have involved the process of

making marks with tools and

mechanical objects such as toy cars.He has completed his MA course inFine Art where he exhibited in a Fine

Art Show. Before that, he obtained aBA in Fine Art (First Class with

Honours), a HND in Fine Art,

Foundation Art and A-Levels.
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His art is concerned with the use ofmachines in the production of an

artwork. With our culture becomingmore and more engaged with new

technologies, his work questions the

implications of handing over control ofan artwork to a mechanical device.

With the actions of any machine theresult of human intention, he uses

machines to allow chance to enter the

creative process, exploring ideassurrounding authorship, consciousness

and interaction. He allows his tools tocreate their marks and record its

action in a physical way on to thecanvas. Currently his work is

concerned with painting process as theperformance aspect of the production

of an artwork, exploring therelationship forged between materials,

aesthetics and perception acrosscultures. He uses machines/technology

to allow paintings to make themselvesin order to further remove the hand of

the artist. Once set in motion he oftenremoves himself from the studio and

painting process.

On his website

(www.markchadwick.co.uk) you cancheck out all of his latest exhibitions

and see his work ranging frompaintings to video pieces. His videoscan be seen on YouTube at

MarkChadwickArt.

What Ive Been Up to Lately:

Here are a few paintings I have done

since the last newsletter:

Burning, 24 x 30, acrylic on canvas
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Freedom from Fear, 24 x 30, acrylicon canvas

Heritage, 48 x 60, acrylic and plaster

on canvas.

I will have my art on display at City

Hall for a month starting at the end ofOctober. I can't wait!

Something to Play With:

On deviantART, a drawing tablet.You draw, then go to Image, Export

Image, right click, choose Save As,and name the file. An example of

what you can make, by DeloresQuade:

Poem of the Month:

Persona

I lay.Decomposingin a shell of tradition

of societal circumstance.

The guidance I seek,

unbridled desperation,comes at me

as a staggering horse.I am but a shadow in it's presence,

I wear my veil of shame.At times, though,

I rip it off in proclamation.

I am getting better.

How can you betray me?

All that I am?Declare my love is wrong?

I do not have a lying tongueI do not fan the fires of hatred.

I do not partake in evil.Yet I have this malediction

by words of strangers who are dust.

I am fragmented and devoid

Yet I am livid.

I stand in the doorway of my confusionand will remain until there are no more

days.

2010

Quote of the Month:

We may not arrive at our port withina calculable period, but we would

preserve the true course - HenryDavid Thoreau (1817 1862)
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Contact:

Celeste J. Heery

[email protected]
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