The brand of an artist, what a shame

 

A sketch from Friday at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.

Modogliani painted here.

Here are a few designs from the nude.  I was aiming for graphic images; graphic, not innuendo. 

I'm not sure I give you the picture.

 

It seems that nowadays artists, like so many other professionals, have to have a brand; be known  for a certain style or image. 

This is sad.  

We have to keep up the same thing for life, like an actor must play the same role for life.  

 

Seems the hottest market is street art style with spray paint.  I'd love to paint with spray cans but it's really not my thing and the market is overwhelmed with this too.  

It's a crisis.  

 Good technique whichever style will always be sought.

Video of Exhibition at galerie In3Arts Metz : Manhattan Dream

Check out the video from the opening:

The show goes until 12 June. 

Manhattan Dream from Michael Mann on Vimeo.

The Grande Marché d'Art Contemporain at the Bastille - Paris May 2014

 

Here's my stand, less is more.  

Number 102 on the Bastille end just off the parvis along Avenue de Bourdon.

I've invited about thirty gallerists to come.  One, I know, has looked into my stuff. 

The theme is diners and comptoirs.  I like the comparaison between the contemporary American diner and the contemporary Parisian comptoir.  The American diner has been around for quite a while and really not much has changed in the decor, kind of like the Parisian comptoir.  In both the waiters and waitresses wear uniforms.

 This is the first series I've ever done of interiors. 

Merde you must tell me, don't wish me luck, I'll despise you. Tell me merde for French or merda if you want to speak Italian. Both work if your Anglo. 

So happy I am that I quit painting cars and scenes of New York, its saturated.

 

My stand is right in front of the metro tracks, trains come and go all the time.

 

Here is everyone setting up yesterday.

 

And like wow, I am way down there on the left.  Look at that white sky!

Merde merda merde!

L'Heure de l'Apero

l'Heure de l'Apero

Huile sur toile
60x60 cm

This is a view from Boulevard Montparnasse at the Select.   I'm sure the waiter would recognize himself.
This painting will be for sale at the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain at the Bastille in Paris from 1-5 May stand 102

Manhattan Dream at Gallery In3Arts

6:30pm tonight opens my 8 week exhibition 

at the galerie 

In3Arts

13 Place des Armes

Metz

The image is taken from their facebook page.

Parisian Waiters from Le Select

 

Deux Gars

oil on linen 80x101cm

This is unfinished but you get the picture, right? 

The title is Deux Gars because the French cut off all these words like garçons, ordinateur, publicité... Hey les gars? What's up? looking at your ordi?  What's the pub?  (pub is pronounced like boob.)

The photo for this comes from Le Select on boulevard de Montparnasse.  It's one of the famous literary cafés in Paris.

Come see this painting at the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain at the Bastille in Paris from May 1-5. Stand 102 is mine.   

The Chef

I Am The Chef

50x50 cm oil on canvas

This painting will be on display at 

the Grand Marché d'art Contemporain - GMAC Bastille, Paris

from 1-5 May

Stand 102

if you'd like an invitation please contact me

another stolen painting

Yes another painting has been stolen, this is the fourth and one of my all time favourites

Anyone see it please contact me.  It seems to have disappeared from Ivry before I moved ateliers ...

This painting has been shown in several galleries in France and in Belgium.
It is an oil on canvas size 80x80 cm.  The stretcherbars are 4cm thick and painting goes around the sides.  Dated on back 2009.  Signature on back "brooksby" and on front lower left.

Fresh Pressed Juice

 

Jus Pressé

70x50cm oil on canvas

I tried to change my style and paint on white canvas but it just doesn't suit me.  So this painting is a mixture  of smearing, veiling and alla prima.  Someone told me that the shirt of the man is too evident.  That is exactly my intent. I'm pretty happy.  

The cafe is on the corner of rue Saint Placide and rue de Cherche Midi in the 6th.  I have to go by and thank the owner for letting me photograph them at work.  Surely the waiter will recognize himself.  

The same person who commented on the shirt also said that the eyes of the waiter should have looked direclty at the viewer.  But that doesn't work in this kind of painting.  The figures if front-on must blend, therefore the waiter's eyes are less evident than the white shirt.

This is part of the new series that will hang in my stand n 102 at the GMAC Bastille from 1-4 May

I love Paris!

Diner painting

 

Pay Here

80x120cm

oil on canvas

I've been busy busy in the atelier painting for the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain.  This is one of the Diner series.  Its complicated to get photos of cafe interiors because the people manning bars aren't keen on being  photographed.  But this place was different; the American Citizen Diner in D.C. They were so cool, just let me photograph everything.  I loved the little electric choo choo train that  chugged around the shelf on the cieling.  Can't wait to go back to D. C. for more pix.

Thanks to the staff.  I'll be sending postcards of the paintings I do as soon as possible.