al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1418
first posted in facebook april 9, 2025
carlo maria mariani -- "the left-handed painter" (1982)
"i can’t deny that carlo maria mariani’s work confused me almost from the moment i first laid eyes on it" … dan cameron
"i try to invent a world i can enter in order to escape reality, if only while i am painting or drawing" … carlo maria mariani
"i see his paintings as endlessly ambiguous—mysterious, even, though mariani provides no clues to the solution of the mysteries he presents" … carter ratcliff
"i can't deny that al janik's posts puzzled me from the first moment i ever read them" … fictional everyone
"what is at stake is not the validity of painting imitations, no matter how deft, of antique statues in poses sanctified by the centuries. what holds our attention is the extent to which a painter of our own day can deal with the overtones of later association, the increase in self- knowledge and what we like to regard as the hot line to the collective unconscious" … john russell
"what is at stake is not the reality of my posting limitations … it is the extent to which my friends accept the endless wonderland parade of amazing works of art which i share" … al janik
