Category: Art
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Airport Haiku
Here’s some cheap pseudo-haiku composed in flight this week. Accompanying it is a drawing by Freddy Age Six of a green airplane flying from left to right, with a propeller spinning and a happy pilot head sticking out. I’m leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when be back. Oh babe. Oh. I hate to…
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Trinity Statue
The San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor is an art museum with a notable sculpture collection. It is most famous for its seventy works by Auguste Rodin, the greatest set of Rodin sculptures anywhere in the world besides the actual Musee Rodin. But the city’s collection of medieval art is also housed here,…
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Heven is a Wonderful Place
Freddy Age Six, by special request, delivers a vision of heaven rendered in his medium of choice, washable markers. To what shall we liken the kingdom of heaven? Heaven (or, as the stylized swirly writing in the upper right corner has it, “heven”) is a kind of castle city. There are angels everywhere: I see…
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Two Lost Dogs Bark in Berkeley
Last Thursday (June 7, 2007), Terry Taylor and Mike Roe, two members of the Lost Dogs, played an intimate acoustic concert for a group of Biola students studying in the Torrey Berkeley program. Taylor and Roe are both accomplished singer-songwriters in their own rights, and over their years of touring and recording together, their collaboration…
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Graduation Celebration
You might want to study this one for a minute before I offer my interpretation of the drawing by a six year old. . Done? . Okay. It’s an American flag wearing a mortarboard, dancing and waving its hands. Its fingers are like bombs bursting in air, and its tassel is having a party of…
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Remembering the Sinai Icon Show at the Getty
Here is a piece I wrote for a new journal called Atelier. It’s a review of the major icon show that was at the Getty Center this past year. The exhibit is long gone, but this review may help you get a sense of how great it was. Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from the…
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Drafthorse/Clidestale
Artist: Freddy Age Six. Title: Drafthorse/Clidestale Size: 8 X 10 in (12 X 17 with frame) Medium: Magnetophoretic display screen (patented materials, commercially available) Provenance: Southern California Date: May 2007 Current Location: non-existent This image was produced and destroyed in the same Spring afternoon. The visual plane is divided into two long horizontal zones, each…
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Butterfly Sorted
It’s awfully untidy of butterflies to mix and mingle all their colors, don’t you think? Phoebe Age Four does. So she sorted this one out for you. Purple dots go here, yellow up there, black over here, and green down in the– hey, what’s with the mixing of color dots down here in the lower…
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Mother's Day 1974
From the archives, circa 1974, we have a tribute to Mom by Freddie-Age-Six. Yes, these are drawings by Freddie-Age-Six-In-1974, father of Freddy-Age-Six-In-2007. The subject is Mom. The verdict is: “My Mom is nice. I like her.” This may seem like faint praise, but bear in mind that I wrote a whole book about my Mom…
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The Outbursts of Everett True
Everett True was a cartoon character in the first couple decades of the twentieth century. He looked like some kind of middle class Winston Churchill, portly, bowler-hatted, and always armed with an umbrella. The joke in the Everett True comics –there was really only one joke– is that True didn’t put up with all the…
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Caterpillar ariiiiiise
Sphere upon sphere, the caterpillar rises up into the air, gesticulating with its countless leg/arms. One eye is quite round and quite large, pushing the other eye aside and squashing it to an ellipse. The artist, Phoebe Age Four, selects a bright shade of green for the image, and punctuates it with one carefully-deployed red…