tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009661641298007872024-03-24T00:10:50.557-07:00The "Other" James Dean's Studio on the InternetJAMES DEAN painted realistic watercolors of the American scene - from the unchanging landscape of the New England coast, to the space launches in Florida, to the Shuttle landings in the California desert, to the churches of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He was the former Curator of Art at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum and the founding Director, Fine Arts Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600966164129800787.post-67976427518485982242010-10-23T05:02:00.003-07:002024-03-23T04:52:27.918-07:00
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</div><div class="Body" style="color: #3f3f3c; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular, 'Hoefler Text', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><br />
</div><div class="Body" style="color: #3f3f3c; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular, 'Hoefler Text', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;">At times there seem to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to have the drive, the strength, the inspiration to pull any ideas together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition. An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.</div><div class="Body" style="color: #3f3f3c; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular, 'Hoefler Text', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><br />
</div><div class="Body" style="color: #3f3f3c; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular, 'Hoefler Text', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;">At other times I crave a trip to a museum. Standing in front of a Rembrandt at about the distance he stood while painting makes the hair on the nape of my neck stand on end. I walk through the museum with my sketchbook, making thumbnail drawings of the paintings I like. I fill my pages with notes of all kinds - both words and pictures - about color, brush technique, paper, feelings, and my own observations. When I leave the museum, I'm excited and inspired and thinking productively about my own art.</div><div class="Body" style="color: #3f3f3c; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular, 'Hoefler Text', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><br />
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</div><div class="Free_Form" style="color: #3f3f3c; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular, 'Hoefler Text', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;">"I like Dean's work because he doesn't shout at me; neither does he put all his cards on the table at once. I've had one of his watercolors for three years, hanging where I can see it every day, and I don't get tired of it. There's always something I hadn't quite appreciated before. Dean doesn't paint an oak tree; he paints a portrait of a particular oak tree- or a particular plank of wood, or even a particular clump of grass. I like that. I have seen more interest and beauty in the commonplace since I've owned his paintings and I thank him for opening my eyes."</div><div class="Free_Form" style="color: #3f3f3c; font-family: HoeflerText-Regular, 'Hoefler Text', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><br />
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