By John A. Barry And Bill Carmel
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About this blog: John Barry is the creator of trAction Painting, a process/performance genre in which he applies paint to large surfaces with bicycles, roller skates, and other wheeled conveyances. With Bill Carmel and other associates, he has bro...
(More)About this blog: John Barry is the creator of trAction Painting, a process/performance genre in which he applies paint to large surfaces with bicycles, roller skates, and other wheeled conveyances. With Bill Carmel and other associates, he has brought trAction Painting events to local schools and summer camps. He also creates visual puns. His works are included in several private collections. John has authored/coauthored a dozen books, including Technobabble and Sunburst: The Ascent of Sun Microsystems. John can be contacted at
[email protected] or 925-918-7882.
Bill Carmel has 35 years' experience as a professional artist. His fine art paintings, sculptures, and designs are included in private, corporate, and public art collections in the United States, Europe, and Australia. After teaching at Humboldt State University and Southern Illinois University, he returned to the Bay Area, where he remains active in the arts by serving as a co-curator for the Lamorinda Arts Council's Orinda Gallery and by exhibiting throughout the Bay Area. Bill reviews exhibits at SFMOMA, the De Young and Palace of Fine Arts museums, and other Bay Area exhibition venues. Bill can be contacted at
[email protected]
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“April is the cruellest month” opens T.S Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” He wasn’t writing about the IRS, but the fourth month can be cruel financially. On the other hand, you may get a refund. So, you could be in the
red or in the
black. In any case,
green is involved—possibly
silver and
gold as well.
Day 1 is for fools, but how to represent foolishness with hue finesse? What colors symbolize folly?
The majority of Harlequin images resulting from a Web search show the figure in geometric-shape
primary colors. Primaries (especially
red) predominate in clown images.
Speaking of primaries: what could be greater folly than the endless presidential campaign, whose biggest clown sports an
orange fright wig and skin. Most of the clown claque has since been sent away.
The
black-clad Supreme Court
green-lit Citizens United, which brought unlimited
green to the never-ending campaign process, legalizing the buying of elections. This fiasco and others are trampling on our
tricolor symbol. . .represented by footprints of the fools who rush in where saner fear to tread.
Ergo: a palette pastiche, a spray-can clusterfarrago.
