tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post8267009007799219162..comments2024-03-28T06:33:54.252-04:00Comments on Studio and Garden: Charles BurchfieldAltoon Sultanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16743040814034732581noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-33373305916953772282010-12-28T17:55:05.859-05:002010-12-28T17:55:05.859-05:00So glad I found your post of Burchfield. This guy ...So glad I found your post of Burchfield. This guy manages to keep a child's magic alive in his very "grown up" paintings.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-34319966127472923452010-10-16T12:25:50.897-04:002010-10-16T12:25:50.897-04:00hi Maggie, I'm so glad you liked this Burchfie...hi Maggie, I'm so glad you liked this Burchfield post; thinking of his work does enrich our day.Altoon Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16743040814034732581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-84500934153871087832010-10-15T21:58:01.051-04:002010-10-15T21:58:01.051-04:00Oh Altoon, I was feeling just too tired and dulled...Oh Altoon, I was feeling just too tired and dulled to think I could enjoy anyone's blog,but I came to you and was so surprised there was so much to see. Loved this one on Burchfield, what you said, the images, given and the comments between you and Susan. Rich, perked me up a bit, but now I must find the bed...be back tomorrow.Maggie Nealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06793869416867166254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-29764205199413144612010-10-14T16:35:28.617-04:002010-10-14T16:35:28.617-04:00thanks, A.; I most often feel that I'm teachin...thanks, A.; I most often feel that I'm teaching myself by writing for this blog.Altoon Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16743040814034732581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-74865846717870115562010-10-14T15:19:47.890-04:002010-10-14T15:19:47.890-04:00Among your many talents is your ability to open ou...Among your many talents is your ability to open our eyes and engage us with such a varied array of artwork . You make a wonderful teacher of art history!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-69806676351281201162010-10-14T09:48:19.473-04:002010-10-14T09:48:19.473-04:00Altoon, I don't know if you'd see more, bu...Altoon, I don't know if you'd see more, but I know _I_ would have seen more if I'd been anywhere near you!<br />Marcy Hermansader was the first person who told me about him. I didn't like the work at first -- there was something a bit clunky about the brush work, that I now find natural. It's like getting to know someone with an unusual face; you don't see everything right off because you're noticing the oddness. Later you wonder what you found so odd.<br />Now I have to go find Samuel Palmer, whom I don't think I know.Susan Sawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17249426819285565971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-44950279765495160932010-10-14T08:43:11.006-04:002010-10-14T08:43:11.006-04:00Susan, I agree completely about that wallpaper roo...Susan, I agree completely about that wallpaper room; though I found it fascinating that Burchfield worked in design, covering all 4 walls was a mistake; the paintings had to fight with it, especially the best of that group, of the fire. <br /><br />I found the early diagrams interesting as a window into Burchfield's thinking at the time, which was much darker than I expected. But I'm with you in that his paintings were not formulaic. As for the doodles, after reading your comment, I wish I could go back and look at them again, or even better, look at them with you.Altoon Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16743040814034732581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-5558921335596038282010-10-13T22:32:15.831-04:002010-10-13T22:32:15.831-04:00The part of the doodles I liked best, and none of ...The part of the doodles I liked best, and none of these got into the catalog, was the card game scores. "C" and "B" and rows of numbers, in the middle of all those odd figures. <br />As for those drawings, did he just do those w/out thinking (my definition of a doodle), or were they part of that language as specific as several early diagrams showed (and they were all dark meanings -- "morbid brooding" and the like)? I couldn't take them that way; the paintings seem not at all to be coded or formulaic. <br />The cartoons and notes on the Rocks and Sun painting were terrific to see, I thought, and the process drawings of expansions. What a way to work! <br /><br />I disliked the box-room completely covered w/ sunflower wallpaper. And with that wonderful/horrifying painting of the house fire on top of it, which I just ached to see on a plain wall. I don't think Mr. Burchfield would have approved of that room! Panels of the wallpapers would have been very interesting, and I would have liked to've sen more of the design and printing process, though that would just have been to satisfy my curiosity about such things and not the point of the show at all.Susan Sawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17249426819285565971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-22922832695124730312010-10-13T21:24:34.584-04:002010-10-13T21:24:34.584-04:00Susan, I feel grateful to some artist friends who ...Susan, I feel grateful to some artist friends who told me this was an important show, so I made sure to see it. I don't know about you, but the part I thought unnecessary was the room filled with his doodles. I too loved that huge painting filled with light of insects and stars.<br /><br />rappel, I agree that a good part of the joy of seeing this show was in seeing the arc of his work, from visionary to realist and back again. And the "cruelest month" quote came to me as I was writing the post. <br /><br />Linda, oh wow, of course Samuel Palmer is perfect to think of as precedent to Burchfield. There was a terrific Palmer show at the Met a couple of years ago.Altoon Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16743040814034732581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-18722433441247543532010-10-13T20:44:06.240-04:002010-10-13T20:44:06.240-04:00I am coming to like Burchfield more and more as I ...I am coming to like Burchfield more and more as I get older, but for different reasons. When I was younger I liked the decorative quality of many of his works which I now see as expressive and more complex. And, of course, it's me that's changed, not the paintings. "Dandelions" is wonderful and reminds me (on some level) of the painting by Samuel Palmer titled "Garden in Shoreham."LINDA from EACH LITTLE WORLDhttp://eachlittleworld.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-66835393463179760372010-10-13T20:09:51.496-04:002010-10-13T20:09:51.496-04:00I agree! it was one of those exhibits that opens u...I agree! it was one of those exhibits that opens up rather than closes an artist's oeuvre. rare. I got a sense of his whole trajectory. he was looking and feeling and wrestling with the times, whether one likes his results or not. loved your Eliot April quote in there too.rappelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03569445602513667186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-73610224184916794342010-10-13T19:00:25.848-04:002010-10-13T19:00:25.848-04:00I'm so glad you got to this exhibit. It was th...I'm so glad you got to this exhibit. It was the sole reason for a trip down a few weeks ago; I've been a great admirer of Burchfield for many years. And I thought the exhibit was well done (mostly). I'm grateful for it.<br /><br />I spent a long time in front of the dandelion painting. And the house fire, and the night with insects and stars. He painted sound, heat, energy -- who could do that?!Susan Sawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17249426819285565971noreply@blogger.com