Color Run 2019

I was asked to come back and photograph the color run this year. I brought my rain jacket for my camera, so I could get closer to the color.

Famous Artist #12

Brice Marden

born 1938 and is still alive at 80

Abstract painter, The style of work he is known for is a bit calligraphic and his work is very monochromatic for the most part.

He receiving his BFA from the Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1961. Also earned his MFA from the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 63.

During his time at Yale he developed formal strategies that would characterize his work.

he connected with the work of Jasper Johns while employed as a guard at the Jewish Museum in NY.

He went to Paris where he started making compressed charcoal and graphite grid-patterned drawings. His paintings are an idea from his grids.

In the early 70’s is when fame came to him with his monochrome panels.

Roman and Greek art and architecture, numerous elements of certain Asian traditions were some of his influences.

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Famous Artist #11

Cy Twombly

Born in 1928 and died 2011

He is an American painter, sculptor and photographer.

For the most part his work is large, his style is a mix of graffiti and calligraphy and a simple background color.

It’s said that he influenced Basquiat.

Young Twombly began to take private art lessons with the Catalan modern master Pierre Daura

He studied art at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Washington and Lee University and Art Students League of New York. He became friends with Rauschenberg and was told to go to Black Mountain College.

His first solo show was in 51 at Samuel M. Kootz Gallery in NYC. At the same time his work was influenced by Kline's black-and-white work.

In 54 he was in the army as a cryptographer in DC.

He worked in New York, where he became a figure and shared a studio with Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns between 55-59.

He was interested in tribal art, using the painterly language of the early 50s to invoke primitivism.

often inscribed on paintings the names of mythological figures.

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Famous Artist #10

Mark Rothko

Born 1903 and died 1970

American painter with Lithuanian Jews descent. He refused to adhere to any art movement, but can be under the abstract expressionist.

He was able to speak Lithuanian Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian.

At the Art Students League of New York he saw students sketching a model and that is where his art journey began. He then went to Parsons The New School for Design and also he took courses at the Art Students League.

He moved to NYC where his influences and art learning grew.

1929 Rothko began teaching young kids to drawing, painting and clay sculpture at the Center Academy of the Brooklyn Jewish Center.

In the 30s Rothko and a group of artists met with Milton Avery where they learned that making art for a living is possible. He also learned about color from Avery.

"ultiforms" developed into the signature style

He even went so far as to recommend that viewers position themselves as little as eighteen inches away from the canvas. so that they might experience a sense of intimacy, as well as awe, a transcendence of the individual, and a sense of the unknown.

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Hiking 1-29

Hike 1 - Hike 2- hike 3 - hike 4 - hike 5 - hike 6 - hike 7 - hike 8 - hike 9 - hike 10 - hike 11 - hike 12 - hike 13 -

hike 14 - hike 15 - hike 16 - hike 17- hike 18 - hike 19 - hike20 - hike 21 - hike22 - hike 23 -hike 24 - hike 25

hike26 - hike 27 - hike 28 - hike 29

1- west stockbrige MA 2- philmont NY 3- ghent NY 4 - ghent NY 5- chatham NY

6- chatham ny 7- chatham NY 8- chatham NY 9- redrock NY 10- old chatham NY 11 - austerlitz NY

12 - Delmar NY 13 - hudson NY 14 - spencertown NY 15- hudson NY 16- new lebanon NY

17- new lebanon NY 18- stockport NY 19- great barrington MA 20- copake NY 21- stuyvesant NY

22- catskill NY 23- chatham NY 24- ghent/harlemville NY 25- styvasent NY 26- styvasent NY

27- hyde park NY 28 hyde park NY 29-claverack NY

I did go hiking recently but did not make it to the top and the map they had of the hike was hard to read for me and i learned my lesson to bring water on bigger hikes if i decided to do a big hike. the hike was to Mount Washington in MA..