2023-12-18 12:31
I shared some vintage ads a few weeks back that showed Santa enjoying a smoke and an adult beverage or two. It reminded me f a post from a number of years back that shared a group of odd Vi… Read More
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2023-12-17 12:04
Desire’s Passage– At Principle Gallery
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
–Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island (1955)
So… Read More
2023-12-16 12:18
Zenith— At Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he… Read More
2023-12-15 11:38
Pieter Brueghel the Elder- Hunters in the Snow (Winter) 1565
Darkness stalks the hunters,Slowly sliding down,Falling in beating rings and soft diagonals.Lodged in the vague vast valley the v… Read More
2023-12-14 11:48
Navigating Chaos– At West End Gallery
You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are goi… Read More
2023-12-13 11:55
Mystic’s Way- Coming to West End Gallery
Miracles in mysticism don’t occupy such an important place. It’s metaphor, for the peasants, for the crowds, to impress people. Wha… Read More
2023-12-12 12:36
The Enlightenment— At the Principle Gallery
I felt before I thought…
–Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, 1782
I came across the short line above today from one of the lea… Read More
2023-12-11 11:40
Georges Rouault -Christ in the Suburbs
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expressi… Read More
2023-12-10 12:04
Bluefire— Small Works show at Principle Gallery
Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home;Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, ex… Read More
2023-12-09 11:55
The Fulfillment– Soon at West End Gallery
I slept and dreamtthat life was joy.I awoke and sawthat life was duty.I worked — and behold,duty was joy.
–Rabindranath Tagore
Whe… Read More
2023-12-08 12:29
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza’s who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote’s with a sense for ideals, but mad.
–Ge… Read More
2023-12-07 12:03
Cigarettes is a blot on the whole human race.A man is a monkey with one in his face.That’s my definition, believe me dear brother,A fire on one end and a fool on the t’other… Read More
2023-12-06 12:07
Dawn’s Return— Now at West End Gallery
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
–O… Read More
2023-12-05 12:18
Jean Arp- Torso of a Giant 1964
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract… Read More
2023-12-04 11:21
Andrew Wyeth – Fence Line 1967
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits ben… Read More
2023-12-03 12:12
Moonlight Quartet–At West End Gallery
Winter
Allegro non molto
To tremble from cold in the icy snow,In the harsh breath of a horrid wind;To run, stamping one’s feet every moment… Read More
2023-12-02 12:18
Room to Breathe, 2010
Each for himself, we all sustainThe durance of our ghostly pain;Then to Elysium we repair,The few, and breathe this blissful air.
–Virgil, The Aeneid, ca 25 BC
Go… Read More
2023-12-01 12:07
Principle Gallery Redtree Invitation, 2000
Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn’t mean one sh… Read More
2023-11-30 11:58
The Attuning– Part of Small Works at Principle Gallery
Hope is a diagnostic human trait, and this simple cortex symptom seems to be a prime factor in our inspection of our universe. Fo… Read More
2023-11-29 10:46
Three Sides to the Story— At West End Gallery
The bottom line is this: You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing th… Read More
2023-11-27 11:56
A Song For the Eye— At West End Gallery
That’s the only song I wrote in one sitting. The melody I had worked on for some time. I didn’t really know what the song was. I rem… Read More
2023-11-26 11:27
Placidarium— Now at Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and lea… Read More
2023-11-25 12:08
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
–-John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs (1989)
It’s another Small Business Saturday… Read More
2023-11-24 11:47
Carnival— Now at Principle Gallery Alexandria
Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people… Read More
2023-11-23 11:23
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.–Joseph Stalin
I was looking at a selection of quotations with a Thanksgiving theme when I stumbled across this lovely item from that grea… Read More
2023-11-22 12:02
Garden of Delight– At the West End Gallery
Simultaneous contrast is visible depth – Reality, Form, construction, representation. Depth is the new inspiration. We live in depth, w… Read More
2023-11-21 11:39
The Welcome Tree–At the West End Gallery
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
From 2018:
The great Roman orator Cic… Read More
2023-11-20 11:19
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
I didn’t really need confirmation of the fact that I have been doing… Read More
2023-11-18 11:30
A New Cornucopia– At West End Gallery
In big cities, on farms, in remote places, throughout the countryside, people are moving busily. Why? We are all motivated by desire to make ourse… Read More
2023-11-17 11:47
Gino Severini- Red Cross Train Passing a Village, 1915
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… Read More
2023-11-16 11:41
Robert Smithson– Spiral Jetty
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
– Johann… Read More
2023-11-15 12:36
Rosalie Gwathmey- Deep South
I was doing a little research on the painter Robert Gwathmey, the social realist painter (1903-1988) whose work most often depicted the day-to-day life of p… Read More
2023-11-14 11:48
Closing the Door, 2013
Maybe it’s not so bad to dwell in the past, and muddle in the memories, to stem the simplification of time, and put some craft back into it. Maybe we should thin… Read More
2023-11-13 12:42
Bradford County– GC Myers, 1994
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Mor… Read More
2023-11-12 11:52
Silent Eye of Night– At West End Gallery
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in o… Read More
2023-11-11 11:21
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, France
Ah young Willie McBride, I can’t help wonder why
Do those that lie here know why did they die?
And did they believe when they answered the cause… Read More
2023-11-10 11:47
In Still Wonder – At Principle Gallery, Alexandria
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the int… Read More
2023-11-09 12:06
Egon Schiele- Vier Baume ( Four Trees)
I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
–Egon Schiele
There was a John Mel… Read More
2023-11-08 12:03
Radiance and Shadow
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
—Antoine de Saint-Ex… Read More
2023-11-07 12:02
GC Myers- Blaze, 2014
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for tho… Read More
2023-11-06 11:42
Imitatio – At the West End Gallery
“… Mr. Bankman-Fried said: “I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actu… Read More
2023-11-04 10:44
Georgia O’Keeffe- Sky Above Clouds IV, 1965
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where… Read More
2023-11-03 10:22
Offered to the Wind— Now at West End Gallery
Boychick, wake up! Be something! Make your life something good. For the love of an old man who sees in your young days his new life, for su… Read More
2023-11-02 10:42
Penelope— Now at the West End Gallery
Now that the time has comeSoon gone is the dayThere upon some distant shoreYou’ll hear me say
Long as the day in the summer timeDeep… Read More
2023-11-01 11:06
GC Myers- The Questioning
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question
–E.E. CUMMINGS, 1938, Introduction to Collected Poems
I had a conversation yesterday about the… Read More
2023-10-31 10:52
At last, small witches, goblins, hags,And pirates armed with paper bagsTheir costumes hinged on safety pins,Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.
–John Updike, October, A Child’s… Read More
2023-10-30 10:46
Ivan Albright- And Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow’s dead for tomorrow&rsquo&hell…Read More
2023-10-29 11:08
Harlequin– GC Myers, ca 1996
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infin… Read More
2023-10-28 11:12
GC Myers- The Incantation, ca 1994
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between
—Neil… Read More
2023-10-27 10:42
Jackson Pollock– Convergence, 1952
Painting is a state of being…Painting is self discovery. Every good painter paints what he is.
–Jackson Pollock
In an article in&n&hell…Read More
2023-10-26 10:56
Shel Silverstein, Masks
A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something… Read More
2023-10-25 10:51
A Matter of Perspective— Now at the Principle Gallery
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
–Robert Frost, The New York Times (Nov. 7… Read More
2023-10-24 11:13
Maestro— Now at West End Gallery, Corning, NY
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the onl… Read More
2023-10-23 10:44
Uncertain Times— At the West End Gallery
The world’s an orphans’ home. Shall we never have peace without sorrow? without pleas of the dying for help that won’t come… Read More
2023-10-22 10:59
The Color of Night- At Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
“…that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist;… Read More
2023-10-21 11:11
LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
–-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
While doing some background work for yesterday’s pos… Read More
2023-10-20 10:41
Wassily Kandinsky– Composition 8, 1923
With few exceptions music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather t… Read More
2023-10-19 10:40
Carry the Blue Flag— At the Principle Gallery
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is… Read More
2023-10-18 11:05
Mystic’s Dusk
Ye realms, yet unreveal’d to human sight,Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relateThe mystic wonders of your silent state!
&n&hell…Read More
2023-10-17 10:46
Lawren Harris, From the North Shore Lake Superior, 1927
Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high traini… Read More
2023-10-16 11:06
Work-In-Progress 2023
I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
–Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
This is a… Read More
2023-10-15 10:44
Tangled Light, 2015
Our final results appear almost self-evident, but the years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express; the intense desire, and the alternatio… Read More
2023-10-14 10:43
October Sky, 2015
Human lives… are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence… into a motif, which then assumes a perm… Read More
2023-10-13 10:15
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
–Salvador Dali, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1948)… Read More
2023-10-12 10:50
Sharing Heart– At Kada Gallery, Erie PA
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
–Marcel Proust, Remembranc… Read More
2023-10-11 10:49
George Grosz- Explosion, 1917
The war was a mirror; it reflected man’s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with un… Read More
2023-10-10 11:06
America
Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom… Read More
2023-10-09 11:00
The Durable Will– GC Myers
It is the glory and good of ArtThat Art remains the one way possibleOf speaking truth,—to mouths like mine, at least.
–Robert Browning, The Ring… Read More
2023-10-08 10:59
Moonlight Quartet–At West End Gallery
Little blue, be my shelterBe my cradle, be my wombBe my boat, be my riverBe the stillness of the moonIf I could, I’d go with youTo a place I… Read More
2023-10-07 10:47
Grant Wood– Near Sundown
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as beauty, remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and i… Read More
2023-10-06 10:48
Early Attempt- 1993
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but persever… Read More
2023-10-05 10:59
Tango– 1999
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violinDance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely inLift me like an olive branch and be my homeward doveDance me… Read More
2023-10-04 10:42
When you vote in clowns, a circus is sure to follow.
And what a circus we are seeing from the GOP in the House of Republicans. Wow.
They made it evident that they were clowns from day one b… Read More
2023-10-03 10:56
Pieter Bruegel the Elder- Hunters in the Snow (Winter) 1565
Because the world is so faithless, I go my way in mourning.
—Pieter Bruegel
From 2009:
I am totally in awe of the work… Read More
2023-10-02 10:42
GC Myers Process January 2011
At the Gallery Talk on Saturday at the Principle Gallery, we talked about process though it ended up being a much briefer explanation than some in the audience… Read More
2023-10-01 11:27
Breaking Joy–At Principle Gallery
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
–G. K. Chesterton, A Short History o… Read More
2023-09-30 11:30
In Still Wonder– At Principle Gallery Today
TODAY!!
What: GALLERY TALK
Who: With GC MYERS
Where: PRINCIPLE GALLERY, Alexandria VA
When: TODAY–SAT… Read More
2023-09-29 10:51
The Enlightenment— Coming to Principle Gallery
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
–… Read More
2023-09-28 11:24
Moon, Stone, Moment — At Principle Gallery Saturday
The light we know in the skies above is all that remains of immensely distant fiery stars, many of which no longer exist. They have… Read More
2023-09-27 10:35
Unto the Breach— Coming to Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead.In peace there’s noth… Read More
2023-09-26 10:53
In the Moon’s Pause– Soon at Principle Gallery
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
–Mary Webb, Gone to Earth
Busy getting re… Read More
2023-09-25 10:48
Comes a Stranger— Soon at Principle Gallery
A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusion… Read More
2023-09-24 11:16
Hope’s Fire– Coming to Principle Gallery
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind…
–Aldo Leopold, The River of the Mother of God
The new painting, Hope’… Read More
2023-09-23 11:07
Fortune’s Smile— Soon at Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!
–William Shakespeare, King Lear
It is now just week to the r… Read More
2023-09-22 10:51
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhe… Read More
2023-09-21 10:57
All of Time– At Principle Gallery
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance… Read More
2023-09-20 11:02
Private Song, 2006
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create… Read More
2023-09-18 10:58
From Lawrence Durrell Interview, 1960
I came across this snip above from the Durrell Society, a group dedicated to the work of author Lawrence Durrell. I believe it was from a Paris Review i… Read More
2023-09-17 11:05
Luna Twist– Soon at the Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
—Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener (… Read More
2023-09-16 10:34
On the Rise– You Could Win This Painting!
I will be giving a Gallery Talk at the Principle Gallery in Alexandria two weeks from today, Saturday, September 30, beginning at 1 PM. I had… Read More
2023-09-14 10:33
Hogback Heaven, 1994
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you’d find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would… Read More
2023-09-13 10:55
Work-In-Progress, GC Myers 2017-2018
Sometimes, stepping away and letting a piece rest allows for music to evolve. When returning, one must not only adapt to the music’s maturity but a… Read More
2023-09-12 11:14
Student and Master— At West End Gallery
One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultima… Read More
2023-09-11 10:57
Before…— Painted September 10, 2001
Today is the 22nd year since the 9/11 Attacks. I wasn’t in NYC that day and had no friends or family at the World Trade Center or the P… Read More
2023-09-10 11:27
Ring of Fire #1– At West End Gallery
No one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface h… Read More
2023-09-09 11:30
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
GALLERY TALK
With
G C M Y E R S
Returns to
P R I N C I P L E G A L L E R Y
Alexandria, VA
Three weeks from today
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Stay tun… Read More
2023-09-08 11:05
Soloist– At Principle Gallery, Alexandria,VA
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
–Norman Cousins
I wanted to play the… Read More
2023-09-07 10:26
Island Getaway— Now at the West End Gallery
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
—Paul Cezanne
Here’s a post from several years back… Read More
2023-09-06 10:33
Passages: Beyond the Trees– At Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
WHEN I AM AMONG THE TREES
When I am among the trees,especially the willows and the honey locust,equally the beech, the… Read More
2023-09-05 11:22
Muse, 2009
There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, which enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric… But he, wh… Read More
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