Knoxville and the arts

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 12:29 am

Hello Torch32

Glad to hear the turtle has a home, that was originaly commisoned by Bernadette who owns Earth to the old city.

Jean Phillipe liked it so we traded it back to him, and I painted the earth to old city sign for them or something like that lol.

How is the vinyl holding up that it's painted on, I only did a few of those out of fear that the vinyl would break down over the years. I loved painting them though as you could work an oil painting a bit like a watercolor.

Yep I painted a lot of backgrounds for Jean Phillipe, I was never that good at painting them, but they helped pay the rent a few times.

Nice to hear from you, and how are you doing.

torch_32 · Post by **torch_32** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:36 am

Sonicgoo wrote:Hello Torch32

How is the vinyl holding up that it's painted on

Doing very well. I had no idea that was vinyl!

Sonicgoo wrote:Nice to hear from you, and how are you doing.

Very well, thanks. Jean-Philippe and I will finalize our divorce Wednesday. I'm independent again, having a great summer (I'm a high school English teacher), and dating this crazy guy on here Vertigo25. :-)

Good to see you around!

torch_32 · Post by **torch_32** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:39 am

Sonicgoo wrote:The things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget

Oooh. I just noticed your sig! That's Tori from "Purple People," right? I love me some Tori!

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 12:40 pm

Sorry to hear about you and Jean-Phillipe hope that it's all working out.

I love Tori as well but my Signature is actualy a Tom Waits Quote, from the song Harvet Time.

Does she cover that song, it would be a great song for her

torch_32 · Post by **torch_32** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 5:17 pm

Sonicgoo wrote:I love Tori as well but my Signature is actually a Tom Waits quote, from the song Harvest Time. Does she cover that song, it would be a great song for her

Tori hasn't covered Harvest Time, but it is interesting that these 2 songs have some of the same lyrics. Hmmmm....

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:45 am

My dad was the one that welded that sign together back in the late 60's with his crew cut working on a sign truck during the week and the tobbaco on the weekends. The Gay street bridge itself is over a 100 years old.

In the same vein of thought I'm completely impressed and proud of Kevin over at YeeHaw

http://www.yeehawindustries.com/new/home.html

He has imittated, integrated, and is now starting to inovate on the folk art that is common to folks like howard finster and the Nashville woodblock Printing history.

vertigo25 · Post by **vertigo25** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:50 am

Sonicgoo wrote:In the same vein of thought I'm completely impressed and proud of Kevin over at

http://www.yeehawindustries.com/new/home.html

He has imittated, integrated, and is now starting to inovate on the folk art that is common to folks like howard finster and the Nashville Printing

And has been getting *national* attention, for it, too. I've never met him, but I really like his work.

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:58 am

Just walk into the shop one day when you have time Kevin is a friendly sort and will probably show you around. I've took my mom, and sister over there lol.

We've got some prints and t-shirts and here in nebraska people know who he is, people who have never heard of Agee or Sutree know who Kevin Bradley is lol

torch_32 · Post by **torch_32** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:10 pm

Oh, cool! I didn't know that Whoop-Ass poster was designed locally! I love that thing!

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 2:52 pm

Yea and right down on gay street, I love the name of that street. It's even funnier with the the huddle reference from Suttree(Gay bar in Sut is on gay street , it used to be right across from the Bijou thatre) Trippin in the dew down on gay street lol

Steve Pogue tells me he went into the huddle before it was shut down, from what I hear it was sort of a dive with gay culture.

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:09 pm

I was very surprised to find that there is a fellow artist that had the Knoxville to Lincoln connection. I will look for some further links when I get a chance.

Charles Rain

apparantly this fellow was born in k-town, to later live most of his life in Lincoln, Nebraska

Title: Rhodian Idyll

Date: 1966

Medium: Oil on panel

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:38 pm

http://www.thisispunkrock.btinternet.co.uk/ps/ushc/ak/koro.htm

early Knoxville Punk Rock

Carl can be a bit uhum diffucult at times but Koro, then later Red, Wedge and whitey all rocked

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:45 pm

Hey if anybody knows were there is some art by Steve Pogue, Kathy Peacent, Steve Ingram, Dolce, also Ali Akbar I know ali has a website somewhere

Please point me to it or post it as they are important Knoxville artist in my book.

Thanks

torch_32 · Post by **torch_32** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:35 am

That Charles Rain painting is so good that I actually thought it was a photograph until you mentioned the medium. Very impressive. I absolutely love art like that, with the whole European thing going on-- 'cause you know Europe is ONLY about food and gorgeous settings, in my book anyway!

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 9:48 pm

Yeah your right on with the europe connection:

Born in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1911, Rain attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1933, he traveled throughout Europe and was especially impressed by Berlin, Paris and Vienna It was during his European travels and his exposure to traditional painting techniques that Rain began to develop his realistic style. Rain's realism is closely identified with 19th-century traditions, though his subject matter is often eccentric, and sometimes assumes surrealistic overtones. Rain's tendency to combine disparate subjects and to isolate a single subject against an empty background often lends a mysterious quality to his paintings, which critics have termed "magic realism."

http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v7n17/v7n17arts.html

Charles Rain's work

His paintings realy remind me of Peter Blume's work:

Peter Blume

Sorta gives me an urge to paint a one of those broken down bulidings in K-town with this sorta feel, It would of course have to be darker.

"The city on no know paradigm reading back through the ages of the aberant disordered and mad"

Cormac Mcarthy Suttree

Sonicgoo · Post by **Sonicgoo** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:41 pm

Well Andy although not originaly from knoxville, it is now his home.

So we shouldn't leave him out of important Knoxville artist huh?

You can find more here:

http://www.lowegallery.com/andrew_saftel/archive/index.html