JMJahn In reply to sanchezartwerk [2020-05-10 07:52:40 +0000 UTC]

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sanchezartwerk In reply to JMJahn [2020-05-13 14:33:19 +0000 UTC]

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JMJahn In reply to RKB-arts [2016-09-17 09:41:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks
Most works are sold (private collections mostly europe)

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JMJahn In reply to purelark [2016-01-20 09:45:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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JMJahn In reply to Xantipa2 [2014-01-11 12:07:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.....ain't time sumthun
 

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Xantipa2 In reply to JMJahn [2014-01-13 08:13:38 +0000 UTC]

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JMJahn In reply to Saint-Gut-Free [2013-01-14 09:57:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks
I've been a bit lazy about updates
but glad you enjoyed the visit.

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JMJahn In reply to Xantipa2 [2013-01-12 11:21:31 +0000 UTC]

Many Thanks
*still truckin like the doo dah man*

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Xantipa2 In reply to JMJahn [2013-01-12 19:09:47 +0000 UTC]

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JMJahn In reply to schachay [2012-12-08 14:51:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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schachay In reply to JMJahn [2012-12-16 11:18:43 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure!

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JMJahn In reply to Savy787 [2011-04-26 19:27:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks,
painting is a magic life.

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JMJahn In reply to SheDreamsInColour [2010-04-28 11:24:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks,
Drawing is the secret of all painting.
And seeing with a painters eye.
Also experimenting like a scientist....
Of course I've only been painting for 30years, so I'm still a beginner

Anyway Thanks....

I'm having a new studio built in the late summer
I'll try to remember to post some pics, when it's complete.
(higher ceilings and better continuous wall surfaces)

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JMJahn In reply to lubna64 [2010-03-05 15:16:55 +0000 UTC]

Hi, well thank you.
These days my paintings are taking
a while to finish, but I hope you'll say tuned
here's a lot more + archives [link]

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JMJahn In reply to asher27 [2010-02-09 14:49:32 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the link luv...
Much too bright for me
This is one of the ones I like for figurative
[link]

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asher27 In reply to JMJahn [2010-02-10 06:39:26 +0000 UTC]

that painter is pretty good too. i love super bright colours as i feel it aids to the abstraction.

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JMJahn In reply to Birgit-Zartl-Art [2009-10-12 16:41:22 +0000 UTC]

Sweet of you my dear, Thanks

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JMJahn In reply to Saint-Gut-Free [2009-10-07 21:18:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, you too

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JMJahn In reply to drewschermick [2009-09-11 15:47:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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JMJahn In reply to DocSonian [2009-02-16 07:11:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks
I did try the SF Art Institute, but
that must have been way before your time (1962)
Thanks for your thoughts, just time for me to
say no to the overwhelming commercialization
of ART on the web. I pay for bandwidth too
and my environment effects my ART. It (my subconcious) does
not need to be assaulted hourly with greed and
blatant disregard a minimum of civility in the
quest for greater commercial success.
Time for myself to back off, and say no to being
a part of the great grinding wheel of commerce.
I'm one of the lucky ones that have come to a point
in life where I do not have to bastardize my work in
hopes of gain.....
Thaks again for your thoughts

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DocSonian In reply to JMJahn [2009-02-16 20:37:44 +0000 UTC]

definitely before my time, I graduated later but many of the same teachers were there, with tales of the Beat era which fascinated me.
I see that post semi abstract expressionist thing in your work. Have you always painted this way. ever tried anything different.
For 10 years i was a photo realist.
Then got bored with that and started again doing more POp abstraction.
My grandmother in NYC studied with Hans Hoffman and Franz Kline and from that when i was a kid it stuck in my head. But all that now seems so done and old.
I can see all you say,but i have always lived in major US cities of art.
I never let that shit get in my way.
Paint is the deal and the rest are the times we live in.
Once they let the cat out of the bag, no one will ever get it back it.

Wish you the best in paint and life
will keep an eye out with what you do over time.

Don't get too comfortable, push the envelope from time to time.

best from the wet west coast of oblivion
Mark

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JMJahn In reply to DocSonian [2009-02-17 09:01:04 +0000 UTC]

Great background, you have.
Yes I tried most of the ways to lay the paint down
including Photo Realism. Problem I have is that
I choose to live an isolated life in countryside.
So given that choose, I follow my own thoughts
and wishes and will never be *on the cutting edge*.
I used to keep in touch trough magazines, but the art
seemed so far from my traditional studio life that
I gave up trying to *keep up*. And I decided early that
realism was a cheap trick to cater to the mind of the viewer.
I only wish to paint and see my own egocentric self on my canvases
I think an artist can easily lose his/her way by being
too *clued in*. De Kooning for example. I dislike his later
works, and I'm sure it's because he wanted to *stay relevant*.
I prefer the Cezanne model of the artist in isolation perfecting
his own vision. Cezanne of course used the impressionist contempary
model as a starting point, but then left them all behind to develope
the roots of abstraction and color.
Whatever makes up the individual should be *on the canvas* without the
distortion of concious pandering to the art world.....and that's
a road that's hard to follow, we all want to be liked, it's human.

Thanks you for the kind wishes...........I'll be fine......and covered in paint

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DocSonian In reply to JMJahn [2009-02-18 05:15:25 +0000 UTC]

true...some of her stories were aces and my uncle was a friend of Duchamp's in NYC at the end of WW II. He was military intelligence and got to know Marcel that way. They played a lot of chess and went to art auctions together.

I grew up in distinctly different atmospheres.
Art and my dad's military side. So we lived all over the world.
Now I find myself in a huge warehouse in Oakland waiting for the rain to stop.
a true movie plot.
Cezanne, Matisse and old wild Bill Dekooning still does it for me.

Dekooning is one of my favorites. Those 40s - 60s works were simply sublime. His long time boozing did not help at all.
His last works were fairly distracted by his illnesses. I met Elaine Dekooning at SFAI at a lecture. What a gal. She kept saying Bill this Bill that. We were all enthralled students even though we were not. Think I was maybe 30ish. I lit maybe 6 of her cigarettes that eve as we all got her to go down to North Beach for a few drinks with some higher ups from the Institute.
All interesting times.

Well paint calls...gonna work till the rain stops then head into the city for a meet-up at an old hangout

wishing you the best in paint and solitude
we all could use it these days
'best...covered in paint...good one 2
Mark

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JMJahn In reply to DocSonian [2009-02-18 08:19:33 +0000 UTC]

I just surfed over to your website.
Great studio.
I was born and raised in Oakland.
Montclair, St. Mary's College High School in Berkeley.
My last US residence was in the Oakland hills.(burned down in the big fire)
Had a commune in Orinda at one time. Spent 3 years
driving gypsy cab in Oakland and smoking da ganja.
Hahahahaha, small world......wish I could buy you
a cup and have a chat....
Until then, Keep on Truck'un

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DocSonian In reply to JMJahn [2009-02-18 21:42:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks
Been in Oakland for 7 years after a good stint South Of Market in SF.

ahhh yes....know some folk that lost their houses up there and quite a few of my paintings burned that day.

Sounds like you did up the nay Area pretty good before you split.

Me next someday


we'll have that cup of Joe someday I think
think we could chat a good storm.

writing you made me look for some old stories my uncle and grandmother told me of NYC back in the 30s and 40s.
but still looking


and yes
keep moving the paint around
I'm in a slight mental holiday of paint
hoping I get out of it soon.

been falling back on photography
my mistress and with words lately it seems

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JMJahn In reply to DocSonian [2009-02-19 07:58:18 +0000 UTC]

Yea I'm in a slow time now myself.
I don't know if it's the large gallery
contract that was canceled (the economy)
on me at the first of the year or just
time to take stock (?) Actually good to slow
down a bit.
It's OK, and the sh*ts at the same time.
I fall back on net hobbies and just day to day
life. I maybe get 1 hour a day in the studio,
but I don't paint if it's not there. Anyway
after 25 years of painting I'm not worried about
loosing the touch...hahahahahaha
painting is so interwoven in my life that not painting
is almost natural, especially when there is no *deadline*.
Maybe painting deadtime is in the air ?

Talk to ya later.....

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DocSonian In reply to JMJahn [2009-02-24 23:02:53 +0000 UTC]

can relate what you say and agree how i seem to work theses days
I have so many other art related interests that painting often gets stuck on the side.

Plus the era and all, often paint needs a rest or it gets old.

It is part of me and always will be
but often it just need to be left alone

Maybe painting deadtime is in the air ?
yes
think that is in the air

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JMJahn In reply to maica29jul [2009-02-15 19:39:44 +0000 UTC]

My site

[link]

or

Flickr

[link]

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maica29jul In reply to JMJahn [2009-02-16 04:13:21 +0000 UTC]

thnx.

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JMJahn In reply to Birgit-Zartl-Art [2009-01-26 23:31:53 +0000 UTC]

Wow......, thanks cat
I'll buy you a coffee some time

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