DALE WITTIG

Painting, poetry, propaganda, papier mâché, photography and political theory, presented by an old puppeteer.

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@el_jorgeeee via Twitter

[dalewittig]

@el_jorgeeee also  @mexicano97 (OF) de 25 años boxeador y anestesiólogo masculino gay muy hermoso y fuerte en Guadalajara. Muy hermoso y fuerte, más joven de lo que parece

[queentkworld-1]

Mike is killing the game! 😝💦💋🍆🍑💦😝🍆👀💦😝💋🔥😝💦💋💋🔥😝

[dalewittig]

Who is Mike and where is he?  This post is four years old and I still don’t know, despite the many pictures and videos I have of him.  It’s never enough.  I just found this little snippet.  Here’s a link to my Blogg post with longer and more explicit videos of this riveting young athlete:

 https://artebarrato.blogspot.com/2017/07/mike-19-new-mexico.html

[dalewittig]

Ritratto di due amici (Jacopo Pontormo, 1524)

... Amicitia plurimas res continet quoquo te verteris praesto est nullo loco excluditur  Numquam intem pestiva numquam molesta est   Intaque non aqua non igni ut aiunt pluribus locis utimur Quam Amicitia. (Cicero, De amicitia, 44 BCE)

[dalewittig]

I had the good fortune of late to draw these pencil drawings and sketches from the particular life model whom I most enjoy drawing.  I've posted many drawings of him in the past but since the Covid 19 Pandemic struck I was only able to view him via ZOOM, which is definitely not my preferred method.  In this case I actually got to sit a few feet away from him as I drew.  It makes a great deal of difference for the draughsman, and I suspect for the model as well. ( I hope for the better.)  Many thanks to the other artists who took part in the three sessions during which these pictures were produced, to Thomasina DeMaio for footing the bill and setting up the use of the space at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center and the Sidewalk Salon at Noe & Market, and above all to Derron Thweatt for his compelling presence.

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Diez retratos ovalados.   Ten Oval Portraits.

Pinté un gran retrato de Alex Yerena y nueve miniaturas de AM. 

I painted a large portrait of Alex Yerena and nine miniatures of AM.

Avril 2021

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Seven recent non-objective paintings, acrylic, pencil and gesso on corrugated cardboard rounds, eleven inches diameter: Popova, Malevich, Rodchenko, Dove, de Kooning, Hofmann, Hartigan.  Each one named for an abstract painter I admire, none of them a copy of their work nor an attempt to imitate their style.

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I made eight drawings of Derron Thweatt this last weekend during the two three hour sessions he posed for the artsaveslives group organized by Thomasina DeMaio.  During the last hour he posed for the portrait at the top of the post.  I’ve made many drawings of Derron, but few as satisfying for me in the quality of the likeness.  I hope it was as equally difficult and pleasurable for him sitting as it was for me drawing.

[dalewittig]

Some paintings from more than 25 years ago as they shown in a subway kiosk in Germany.  It had been a Show in Hamburg in a kiosk at a subway station, called "sei dabei"...with Max Schuman, Peter Cramer, Jack Waters...  The Life Model was Donald, who used to bang on my street door for a cup of coffee. He still wanders Divisadero. Most Cowboys don't like fences... A la mayoría de los vaqueros no les gustan las cercas. El joven de camiseta amarilla era un Jaliscano con el que trabajé brevemente en Oakland, hecho de memoria.  Se llama Alfonso Landeros.

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After my East Coast break I returned to Life Drawing at Eureka Valley Rec.  The models yesterday were Shane Diva & Aaron Ness, two contrasting bodies & characters: Shane being slender & mermaidesque, Aaron being stocky, muscled & pierced; both worth long looking, each in their own way.  Kind of like Jack Smith’s Mermaid & Werewolf in Normal Love, my favorite sequence.

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A couple of IraCohenesque photos presumably by Jack Smith, the first one of Beverly Grant for sure, the other appears to be Jack himself (though whose hands?) all courtesy of Gladstone, the Estate and the Archive .

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Noah Lank in the Petrol Officer part 13 a New Platform as the Assistant Heir Apparent, 13 July 2012, reenacting the Deepwater Horizon Spill, 20 April 2010.

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Thems the Shakes 2: Red Bicycles without Riders suddenly proliferate around Alamo Square SF guarded by Bicycle Demons.

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Beginning of a new video, this part shot a year and a half ago or more, but pretty much as I envisioned. Desolation back in the old home, folk dying, end of the world, all that.  Many thanks to Wesley Lank for assisting and performing and to Ernest Tubb for his immortal song.

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Two drawings of Derron Thweatt from yesterday afternoon’s session at Eureka Valley Rec.  I especially enjoyed making the one of him with his chin in his hand; easy enough, so assured in pose and drawing, simple and elegant. Thanks to Thomasina for the opportunity to draw him again.

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A couple of 1948 photos by young Stanley Kubrick of movie stars, Nina Foch and Cornel Wilde showing off their amateur artist skills in advance of a benefit for the Urban League.

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Virginia Madsen was born 11 September 1961. A beginning is a very delicate time.

[dalewittig]

A second Artist Reception for Final Paintings at OCD Chocolates 63 E4th St (near Bowery) Sunday 4 August 2019 from 7 to 9 with nine new ID portraits.  (It was so hot during the opening that few ventured out.) Please come.  All are welcome.