Made in America

Starting with “Noah Building the Ark”, I’m slowly developing a grouping of images related to the Old and New Testament, figuring they’d be of interest on Etsy perhaps… I know that Bob deChatbot, who lives in my computer, would be delighted if you visited my Etsy shop to see our latest creations.

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So, by golly, I have a whole bingy-bongy bunch of new graphics, but lemme tell ya how they get made.

First of all, I have a really solid “art history” background both in Western and Eastern art, and many tribal and ethnic art forms have I seen.

In addition, I have the skills to work in wood, on canvas, in metals and clay, and in oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache and pastels, plus skills in engraving and etching and lithography, all learned at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California in the 1960s.

I use every bit of that skill-set to build the ai-assisted works. My big secret is not, as you’d expect, the prompt, unless I want to get a specific subject or setting. No, my big secret is that you never know what you’re going to get.

It’s a crapshoot.

The thing is, you’d better have a good “Gezerteplatz” working, the “artist’s eye” that tells you when a piece of art is a piece of shit and when it’s good, good enough to exhibit.

There’s a world of difference, and that’s really the art of the artist, unless it’s one of those wimp artists who can’t make an experiment on paper or canvas without consulting with their gallery dealer.

Well, there’s something to be said for that, too — ya gotta make a living, and if it’s not from art, you won’t have time or energy to really devote yourself to the art, so it HAS to be income derived from art, which makes it doubly tough, because art is a necessity, but only to the artist.

I’ve put up a number of 17th century style pieces, interiors of taverns, mostly, and I also put up a number of pieces based on the Cedar Bar Tavern in NYC.

If you compare my interiors to photos of the Cedar Bar posted on the internet, you’ll note that my images are right on the button.

There is one apparent discrepancy that occurs to you unless you were actually a patron of the Cedar Bar — it had four different locations, all on University Place, and all of them within a few easy feet of each other, over the years, as the city changed, so there are four different versions of the bar, of which I show three of those variations.

I also have a number of pastoral and bucolic scenes, the kind of thing that Rembrandt, Turner, Goya and Gainsborough might have produced along the way, if they’d survived into the 21st century.

Art is a different thing now.

It started out as a way to warm the walls of the fortress castles of the feudal barons, but after a few centuries, the giant woven tapestries gave way to the less expensive and time-consuming imitation tapestries painted onto gigantic canvases made from ship’s sails.

Then when the middle class came to be, around 1750, the paintings got smaller and smaller, and prints started to become available and popular.

At that time, you survived as an artist by producing pictures of dogs, cats, horses, birds and other pets of the unthinkably wealthy, and of course their portraits as well.

Once in a while, you might sell a landscape, but mostly it was portraits and etchings for their CSV, their calling-card which featured a portrait of the famous doctor, lawyer or other professional who had a famous artist make it up for him.

In the last half of the 20th century and the first quarter of this one, artists paint whatever the hell they want and they get paid for it, but there’s a catch.

The buyer is going to want a guarantee that the artwork is going to someday be worth many times what he or she paid for it.

Today, money rules the market, but it doesn’t have to rule the artist, and that’s why my pieces up on Etsy are only a mere 99 cents. It’s not about the money.

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