Comments on: Dara Engler

By: Matthew Choberka

Matthew Choberka — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:17:08 +0000

My bad…will head over to Carla’s blog.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:25:43 +0000

as long as there seems to be some random non- dara engler related commenting going on…i just want to say:

woo hoo!

mwc just cracked 50,000 views!

thanks, everybody!

By: carla

carla — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:45:52 +0000

Hey Sam, I appreciate the courtesy, but feel free to open them up here too.

By: Sam K

Sam K — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:01:49 +0000

That’s my doing–wanted to direct folks to Carla’s original post, since she did the finding.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:30:40 +0000

Matt, are you talking about Carla’s blog, Rocktown, IN?

http://rocktownindiana.blogspot.com/2008/08/brenda-goodman.html

By: Matthew Choberka

Matthew Choberka — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:27:03 +0000

Comments are closed on Brenda Goodman….she’s an incredible painter. Let’s get that open!

By: Norbert Marszalek

Norbert Marszalek — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:43:31 +0000

interesting discussion.
I didn’t have an agenda with my comment…I just thought, “these really remind me of Paula Rego.” We are all influenced by work that we see, know and admire.

By: Sam K

Sam K — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:53:40 +0000

I also think of Soutine (or Schiele and Kokoschka) more than Rego, because so many of the paintings are single-figure.

There’s a different psychological thing that happens a lot in Rego, from there being multiple, interacting figures.

I do wish I could see a few in person, or at least some material-revealing detail shots…

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:24:59 +0000

Influence was an issue for me as a student, as I’m sure it was for many of us. First I tried to avoid making anything that looked too similar to the work of my heroes but I realized that I wasn’t getting anywhere by doing that. So I decided to indulge in my influences in order to better understand them and hope that I eventually moved beyond them. I think this is a good attitude as long as your interests are widespread and varied. Your mind blends them all up together and out comes something that I would call original.

Also, I think Dara’s paintings reveal much more in person. In reproduction you see the image more than the materiality of the paint, and the metallic stuff never translates well into a static image.

By: jen

jen — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:58:29 +0000

that should be ‘throw’…not through…
oops.