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New Year 2012

2011-11-22T12:51:00.000-08:00

Tree Down ... yell "Timber!"

Whatever happened to the idea of art for the sake of art?

Should we declare A Brand-Free Art Zone and start handing out tickets for

bad judgement or lack thereof? A zone where no written explanations are allowed...

no wall text will be accepted. Just let the art do the talking.

Of course this is absurd as the shit that oozes out into the world by these uninformed charlatan impostors "posing" as artists, curators, critics & the like-as they march out into the world with their art&curatorial degrees from Yale ... loaded with

the restricted language and vision of academia.

It is all about brand, merchandising and the legions of "gagosian girls"( see Vogue October) promoting this overall crap.

It isn't fair and never has pretended to be but...

it is a game for the privileged few & their party guests

but...

but you don't have buy into it unless you are an equally predisposed vacuous follower

with the inability to exercise any judgement.

Here is the rub... the notion of judgment & the fear to express an opinion that might

be just that opinion that puts you among the "unbelievers" is scary or foreign to these folks and this group that must maintain order in order to profit and control their market; their little piece of turf.

You may ask who does this guy think he is ... say something.

As Gore Vidal once said, " Andy Warhol is the only genius I have ever known with an IQ of 60" and you can add Duchamp,Hirst and Koons as well.

But I can't really help myself because deep down I am a Marxist just

like Groucho..."whatever it is- I'm against it".

Oh Yeah.... Happy New Year Too!

New York Street Repair & Roma Via Guilia

December Post

2011-11-03T08:16:00.000-07:00

B A S E B A L L by Vincent Scilla

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace...Buy This Book... Best Price Ever...

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And now for news and commentary....

Get this...

News:

Millionaire artists Close&Rauchenberg worried

about resale royalities in California...

Ow, how sad.

I would welcome the auction house to drive up

to drive up the price

& demand for my work... wouldn't you?

Parting Note:

Like the squirrels gather nuts .... so I gather wood.

The title of this weeks production is "Tree Down".

Be careful to look about and yell TIMBER!

Fall 2011 Notes & News

2011-01-26T11:25:00.000-08:00

"Red Hat" 2011

Baseball Book

BUY THIS BOOK (don't burn it)

Dear Friends,

Once again I have avoided the trap of an art rant... i thought about it but then deleted the whole mess. It gets down to "just take of your business and focus on what you gottado."

Don't spend time with people who are always looking over your shoulder... they have nothing to offer and are quite frankly a bore. Life is too short for this especially when you reach September.

So let us focus...

So here it is, my book of baseball art from 1985-2010... 80 pages, 40 full color reproductions, printed on premium luster paper.
I am offering a 8x10 hardcover limited edition (only 75 copies) of the book which includes a signed archival print of the cover artwork "Ted slides safe" suitable for framing - book and print for $100.
You can purchase thru my Paypal account vscilla@gmail.com or email me to arrange payment. Price includes S&H.

Also, you can purchase the softcover without the signed print at Blurb.com in their bookstore $41

Recent Observation....Martin Luther King statue in Washington, D.C.

Knowing the work was done by a Chinese artist (not chinese-american or african-american or for that matter any dash-american) I cannot help but feel Chairman Mao when I look at the sculpture.

What "in the know" New York consultant got this job and I bet they have a number of Chinese artists to sell at Sotheby's.

Maybe Martin is gazing upon that city on the hill and holding a check marked "insufficient funds".

To all that view this blog... please sign up as a follower. I am trying not to bother as many people as possible.

Merry Xmas 2010

2010-11-22T09:23:00.000-08:00

Now, as I approach my 62d year year there is one thing I have learned over the decades; confidence in myself, in what I think and in my judgements. At this anxious Holiday time of gift giving; I have through with careful and studied help from my significant other overcome my nervousness of shopping in the woman's store and in particular the lingerie section. The engineering, the fine lacework and the wonder of it all; not so much a voyeur as a voyager.

Good God...am I becoming the Jack Nicholson character on the Paris bridge lamenting (cue the snowfall) the the idea that he has become the woman in the play? Well, something always has got to give. Merry Xmas to you all!

I am off to the bar to watch some hockey and get some serious senior discounts on my cocktails.

PUT LINGERIE IMAGE HERE

and by the way... Happy New Year and a Merry Winter Solstice to you pagans out there and throw in a Lunar Eclipse too!

Brand My Ass...plueeeze

2010-09-15T14:24:00.000-07:00

"Santa Fe #2" vscilla 2010

Brand this, brand that and while you're at it...
brand my cat.

Branding it's not for cattle anymore.
How readily the people ooze up to this phony world of self worth and gratification is toxic.
No content inside the box ... no clothes on the king.
Sometimes America asks itself... "why do they hate us?"
Anyone listening?

Now to the branding of our national pastime...baseball.
Contrary to what to what MLB thinks ... baseball does not belong to them... it's not their property.
It is the property of generations of Americans dating back nearly 200 years; it's our mythology and legends... I don't need Mastercard telling me that.

Thank you San Francisco for humbling the mighty state of Nolan Ryan.

Enough gasbagging for now...

And now for that video... ArtBurn

The artist is in charge of controlling their production... periodically I assess what I have created and if the work does not pass the test of "would I want to exhibit this work?"... then I burn it. This is not a hasty judgement often one that requires decades.
I leave a few relics to mark the path that has lead me to today (as for the one's out there already... call me and I'll tell you to burn them or not).

"Typewriter" vscilla 2010

NEWS FLASH... my book of baseball art will be out soon...look for updates.

October 2010

2010-07-14T18:59:00.000-07:00

"32 At 75" an exhibition of thirty-two artists' visual tributes to Sandy Koufax on the occasion of his 75th birthday will open on October 4, 2010 at the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Commack, New York. Yours truly will have two pieces in the show as seen on this page.

What else is News?

Go to YouTube and view the Robert Hughes' "The Mona Lisa Curse".

An excellent refresher course for all you art buffs.

The man is an exceptional voice rising above today's mediocrity in art discussion.

If you want to gain understanding of the elusive thing called art then watch this.

Returning to mediocrity... go to the NY Times most any Friday and look at the pictures and read the uninspired commentary that accompanies them.

This 9-10-10 we have an angry white Japaneses dog; a painting made of chewed bubble gum (perhaps better positioned on the underside of a restaurant table) and flighty Gerhard Richter going from one style to another. Oh, and let me not forget the truly ugly painting "Seder" on

page C26. There is art brut that is wonderful but this painting is just brut.

Can we have some AUTHENTICITY here or as the Indian said to Ringo ( I believe) in the film

"Help!"..." be yourself cookie".

We'll meet again in a couple of months until then have fun.

Vince

If it's Not Fun Don't do it

2010-03-11T07:13:00.000-08:00

"Sugar Sugar... Honey Honey"

"Fine Day for Baseball" oil on paper ... Time to turn on the Radio and listen to the sound of the game.

"WHY" (photo montage)@POD gallery ... picture created 1977

"Sugar Sugar" by the Archies a radio pop classic with a sugar shaking rhythm rift that conjures sounds of Jamaican steel drums. What was so trivial in the early 1970's seems by today's pop musicality to be almost classical.

March 15, 2010 The Ides of March... Bloomington, NY ... 30 turkeys were sited walking in a line thru the woods in no particular hurry.

Posted Warning to all creative types....

IF IT IS NOT FUN DON"T DO IT... if what you're doing starts to feel like work...don't do it

The Picasso show at the Met NYC comes with sign before you enter warning of sexually explicit content ... proceed with caution? The power of art and the screwed up American attitude toward the naked body is still with us even in this time of rampant Internet porn and our profane media. Well done Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nonetheless, a good time was had by all.

One more note and I promise to shut up...

Tom Hanks to Meg Ryan in "You Got Mail" says he cannot understand Joni Mitchell's "it's clouds illusions I recall... I really don't know clouds at all." Well, Joni is obviously looking at a painting with clouds. You've got Art... Tom.

LATE BREAKING NEWS...

I will have five pieces in what promises to be an excellent exhibition of Baseball Art at the Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois from 6-25-10 t0 8-21-10. Noted artists such as Benjamin Blackburn, John Haney, Margaret Wharton and a number of artists from the Jean Albano gallery in Chicago will be included. A catalogue is available. www.springfieldart.org

And now a little summer video...

Happy Valentine's Day

2010-02-01T11:16:00.000-08:00

Early in the film Goodfellas all the boys are gathered at the local bar (which to me is very

reminiscent of the Golden Rule formerly of Kemare street back in the old neighborhood

Little Italy NYC )and this song is playing in the background. It must have been the third time I viewed this picture before I realized it was Mina my favorite Italian songtress. I wouldn't expect to hear it here but there you go Marty.

Nonetheless, a very popular love song for this lovers holiday.

Now for some art...

New work on paper for the spring blog...see you then.

Enjoy the Winter Olympics.

Vince

Merry Xmas... the days are getting longer

2009-12-08T13:38:00.000-08:00

These two images and others are available as prints on printsociety.com simply by entering vincent scilla in the site's search box (print society link on right of this page)

As for anything else... well beware of strange Xmas liquors and black cats dressed as Santa Claus... needless to say women in black are welcome.

But seriously folks as the Beatles once said "it's getting better all the time... it can't get no worse". Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!

All the best from,

Mr. Vince

Greetings From Tianjin

2009-10-14T19:40:00.000-07:00

Well folks what can I say of China that anyone who has eyes&ears doesn't already know...

let's just say it's busting out all over. However, there is the old China still hanging around some sidestreet.

Turnadot was staged for two nights in the Beijing Bird'sNest a la 2008 Olympic treatment; some where in this multi media frenzy an opera broke out. I think this would play good in Berlin and in certain parts of New York City. Forget the opera glasses and go for the telescope. Next stop the Meadowlands or Vegas?

As before shopping and food was fantastic.

Until later... back to the drawing broads at the board.

Look for "Country Girls"... pin-ups rooted in art history ; next time on the blog

VinoMalaise

2009-08-04T10:19:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,

Visit my website @ www.vincentscilla.com for new updates and plenty of new artworks

August 2009

don't feel like doing anything ... don't worry it's August.

But I may not forgive you if you go to the shore and paint bad landseascapes.

You've been warned.

As you can see from brief video... I am not doing anything.

Happy $th Of July 2009

2009-06-11T12:46:00.000-07:00

Henry Hudson sailed into america 400 years ago and the business of business began...

viva la revolution

viva delacroix

viva las vegas

Suggestion: play fireworks during this picture....

Happy Birthday America

Hello Opera Lovers

2009-05-29T07:52:00.000-07:00

"Lucia" 2009 22x30 oil on Rives

My Carmen is inspired by the captivating Angela Gheorghiu staring in this upcoming season's production at the MetOpera. It is a oil on Rives paper 22x30 inches. More Opera Art to come...

Let the MTA take you there....

Art @ Krevsky Gallery May 2009

2009-05-19T08:25:00.000-07:00

If you are in San Francisco... see my painting "Creamettes" at the George Krevsky Galley until 6-20-09

Currently, I am updating my website vincentscilla.com to include a new page- Vincent Scilla's Print Shop- featuring books, posters and prints for purchase. I'll keep you posted.

Until Later,

Be Well.

Vincent

Cafe Sabarsky 5-26-09