In the type of life activity resides the whole character of a speciesTumblr (3.0; @speciesbeing)http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/“You can, as an artist, try to say something big about life; or be content to make the stuff in your hands come to life. And this humbler task is the greater, for all else merely follows.”<br/><br/> - <em>Leo Steinberg, “Rodin,” Other Criteria. 1971, pp 190.</em>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/34926260701http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/34926260701Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:15:00 -0400“Good painting is often about that moment when things are changing and therefore in motion, albeit not literally”<br/><br/> - <em>Peter Doig in <em>Cavepainting </em>(Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2002), 22.</em>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/23826918191http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/23826918191Sat, 26 May 2012 19:41:00 -0400Peter DoigPaintingQuotes“It’s odd to think of paintings as static, they are so much more. They don’t move like film but seem to have a lot more movement then photography. Maybe it is potential movement, something like breath.”<br/><br/> - <em>Laura Owens in <em>Cavepainting </em>(Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2002), 22.</em>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/23826773647http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/23826773647Sat, 26 May 2012 19:39:02 -0400QuotesLaura OwensPainting“I do have faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of a what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day”<br/><br/> - <em>Philip Guston, “Faith, Hope, and Impossibility,” in Philip Guston: Retrospective (New York: Thames and Hudson; and Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum, 2003), 95.</em>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/23826611164http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/23826611164Sat, 26 May 2012 19:36:00 -0400PaintingPhilip GustonQuotes<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2sopsYwdm1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dan Walsh</p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/21449365427http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/21449365427Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:25:03 -0400Dan WalshPaula Cooper Gallery<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2sooujeB81qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dan Walsh</p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/21449337223http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/21449337223Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:24:30 -0400Dan WalshPaula Cooper Gallery<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ni6dMny81qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/19040295978http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/19040295978Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:08:37 -0500Hercules Segers<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ni5q2cRf1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/19040275431http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/19040275431Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:08:14 -0500Hercules Segers<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ni6rDaoH1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/19040308124http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/19040308124Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:08:00 -0500Hercules Segers<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lytxm5KxmS1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Rudolf Stingel, <em>Untitled</em>, 2000</p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16982458397http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16982458397Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:20:28 -0500Rudolf Stingel<p><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft='{"type":1}'><span class="messageBody" data-ft='{"type":3}'>&#8220;What move men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough&#8221; - Eugène Delacroix, 1824<br/></span></h6></p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16848974599http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16848974599Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:24:59 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfp5otvqe1qk9vr5o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ronald Bladen</p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16554269372http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16554269372Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:51:24 -0500Ronald BladenDrawing<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfnrujfHN1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="caption">Stuart Sherman. Frantic, undated. Marker on paper courtesy Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing: the Works of Stuart Sherman.</span></p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16552321020http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16552321020Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:21:29 -0500Stuart ShermanDrawingMarker<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfnq5RRQi1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="caption">Stuart Sherman. Potted Plant, undated. Marker on paper courtesy Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing: the Works of Stuart Sherman.</span></p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16552256371http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/16552256371Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:20:28 -0500Stuart ShermanDrawingMarker<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw02ibNskB1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/14022339043http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/14022339043Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:10:59 -0500Joseph Wright of DerbyEnglish18th CenturyPaintingGrotto<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw027eXE081qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fermented Soil</p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/14022053730http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/14022053730Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:04:00 -0500Hans Hoffman<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw025sfrIb1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/14022011605http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/14022011605Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:03:00 -050020th CenturyAmericanJoan MitchellPaintingAb-Ex<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvpl2jTpDA1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/13760236974http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/13760236974Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:18:19 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvoulwexsW1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Michelangelo, <em>Torment of St. Anthony (After Martin Schongauer)</em>, 1488-89.</p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/13732045597http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/13732045597Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:46:42 -0500MichelangeloItalianPainting15th Century<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvn9l5A9bt1qk9vr5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Roger Brown, <em>Heavy Cloud Mask, </em>1989.</p>http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/13691659088http://speciesbeing.tumblr.com/post/13691659088Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:15:05 -0500Roger BrownPainting20th CenturyAmericanChicago