Vote for my nude – Freedom

Freedom – 36 x 36 Oils on Canvas by Jennie Rosenbaum With all of the hooraw around my exhibition I’ve been a bit remiss in reporting other things that have been happening. In particular my latest Barebrush success where my work Freedom was chosen to not only kick off the month in the coveted 1st date but also nominated for a curators choice award. I am particularly ecstatic as the curator for this month’s exhibition is Ann Aptaker the exhibitions curator of the Morris Museum .

Back to it!

and now I am ready to start resuming work again. I’m going to start off slow, kick it off with uploading new works to boundless gallery and Discovered artists, working on some websites I administer and start to blog more again…. the house looks mostly like a bomb hit it and that is not far off when you consider my emotional state beforehand.

friday nude quotes

We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs — and the best — he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

thankyou everyone

I am very proud of the effort that went into this show and of the final result…. everyone seemed to have a good time, and the article in the leader newspaper definitely brought people in. I will do a proper post mortem later…. then I will get stuck into cleaning the horrific bombsite that is my studio and get it running again.

friday nude quotes

We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs — and the best — he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

New Nude: Kneeling

almost finished painting – (there’s one that needs a little something extra, but I don’t know what yet). almost finished cleaning the sides and stringing the backs – I’ve framed the watercolors (don’t ask about the stress that was!… sometimes it seems sad, sometimes it seems peaceful, but I’m really getting to be happy with the lines and shapes in this piece.

friday nude quotes

We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs — and the best — he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

crusade against nude art harmful rather than helpful to children

[From Paul Rapoport on Nude Children in Aussie Art: Kids need protection, but art isn’t porn – Full Comment ] This is some of the sanest arguing on this subject I have seen…. I believe that they are tackling this issue the wrong way and in a way that will ultimately be more harmful for children…. in other words, “we don’t like the results the classification board is giving so we are going to change them to suit our own means”.

Trials and Tribulations

I’ve been meaning to update you all on the new paintings I’ve been doing, the news from this show and other shows and all the little bits that go into making an exhibition work…. I reassure myself that it will be better when it’s over, then I have the depression to contend with and finally the rest before ramping up to the next one…. so we panic and stress and worry, then the absence of that stress and panic and this thing that we’ve thrown ourselves into is over all too fast and we crash.

friday nude quotes

We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs — and the best — he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.