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…4 min read·Nov 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…10 min read·Nov 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…7 min read·Nov 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…4 min read·Jun 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)4 min read·May 17, 2019----
Martin MugarAnother Excerpt from my book on Drawing and PaintingProject #: 4 Black and white still life that is cut up to make abstractions5 min read·Mar 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…3 min read·Mar 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…6 min read·Dec 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…5 min read·Aug 25, 2018--1--1