Martin MugarMondrian and Monet flowers in Paris and Notre Dame as RhizomeMy book on Drawing and Painting languishes in virtuality, somewhere on the servers at KDP, although occasionally on my dashboard I see…Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
Martin MugarAs good as it gets on the internet (Or the Three Penny Author)I put my blogposts on Medium, a site that promotes writing on the web. My writing rarely gets any feedback as adjudged from the dearth of…Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
Martin MugarDivagations on Jed Perl’s second volume of “Calder”As I began to think about finishing my reading and reviewing Jed Perl’s monumental second volume of the life of Calder, the art world was…Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
Martin Mugar“Wilma! fred locked out.” Yipes Stripes.Fruit Stripe GumWhen I first wrote about Zombie abstraction in December 2013 several months before the concept achieved notoriety in Walter Robinson’s now…Jun 24, 2019Jun 24, 2019
Martin MugarThese paragraphs subvert the message of my book when I recall Heidegger’s dictum that Western…(An aside on the role of abstract thinking in seeing and art)May 17, 2019May 17, 2019
Martin MugarAnother Excerpt from my book on Drawing and PaintingProject #: 4 Black and white still life that is cut up to make abstractionsMar 22, 2019Mar 22, 2019
Martin MugarAn excerpt from a book I am writing on drawing in particular some points on Erwin Hauer’s…I recently wrote an email to Erwin Hauer to find out where I could send him a manuscript of my book on the teaching of drawing and…Mar 8, 2019Mar 8, 2019
Martin MugarDonald Shambroom’s”Duchamp’s Last Day” and some musings on art and technologyDonald Shambroom has added to the long list of exotica on Duchamp with the publication of “Duchamp’s Last Day” by the David Zwirner…Dec 21, 2018Dec 21, 2018
Martin MugarRemembering the photographer Arthur TcholakianWhen I came back to Boston from Paris in the late 70’s I rented a studio space in East Watertown. I found myself surrounded by an Armenian…Aug 25, 20181Aug 25, 20181
