There is a folk - art feel to
the painting of a bearded man pedaling to his creaky house on the windswept top of a steep hill.
The first known
paintings of Bearded Collies date back to a 1771 Gainsborough portrait of the Duke of Buccleuch and to a 1772 Reynolds portrait of the peer's wife and daughter accompanied by two Beardies.
Not exact matches
While acknowledging the fact that I'm
painting in pretty broad strokes, I'll bet some
of you pictured 1) a man; 2) a very, very large man; 3) a very, very large man, maybe with a
beard, in a singlet, with veins popping and eyeballs bulging, as he deadlifts a bar loaded down with what looks like every weight plate in the gym on each side.
In a farmhouse with
painted paths around its squeakiest floorboards, Lee (a
bearded Krasinki), Evelyn (Emily Blunt), and their two children, Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe), continue the longest round
of the quiet game ever played, never speaking above a whisper, almost literally walking on eggshells.
There are many subtle details in the art design; things like cultural influence in character models and background environments, beautiful hand -
painted textures, vivid effects, smooth animations, and,
of course, incredible transitional areas where lighting, shadows, and color blend so well, it could make a grown,
bearded man cry.
Mostly, the desert
painted in shades
of red on the canvas
of my face, but when I looked in the mirror that morning, on July 25th, I thought I saw a faint hum
of brown glimmering beneath the sunburnt crust, threading between the black and ochre tapestry
of my almost - full
beard.
[The trade] is often
painted as being made up
of nothing but great, big killer snakes, but what does that have to do with a Texas horned lizard or a
bearded dragon?»
Also, Smith has an entire section
of his
paintings dedicated to vibrantly colored
beards.
In them, the society dames
of the earlier
paintings have left their home turf to visit the Painter, imagined as a blond — pompadoured and
bearded, usually bare - chested male animal with a brush.
Another
painting from the 1950s — a rare example, according to Joffre, from the artist's series
of beard paintings — doubled estimates to sell for $ 3.1 million.
I made a photograph
of the tiny guru in the postcard, and took another photo
of that, and I blew it up so it became a blurry blob, and I
painted from that, and he became a sort
of bearded man, something mysterious and black.
The 2x Juxtapoz cover artist's show consists
of 25 new
paintings placed into a 17 x 17 foot hunting lodge installation, and you can walk through a
beard to get there.
They bear all the signs
of dedication — corduroys, red shirts, long hair and as many
beards as would keep them all in
paint brushes for a life - time.»
But when we look closer, we see the artist has deliberately disrupted all the conventions
of figurative
painting: the
beard itself is like an abstract
painting, a haze
of frenetic brushstrokes, drips and even incisions in the
paint's surface.
He also has an amazing
beard, as do most
of his gorgeous, large - scale, candy - hued
paintings!
Botanical Theatre (all works 2013), the largest
painting on view, depicts a ghostly couple surrounded by surreal catuslike forms and watched by a group
of menacing
bearded men.
awards research enabling grant $ 7500.00, university
of north texas, 2010 junior faculty fellowship $ 5000.00, university
of north texas, 2010 purchase award, 1st national bank, columbia, mo 2008 fellowship, vermont studio artist colony, vt 2000 jessie rickly award, st. louis artist guild, st. louis, mo 1996 graduate fellowship, university
of washington, seattle, wa 1990 national fine art award, binney and smith, usa 1988 bibliography • light and depth at bruno david by ivy cooper, special to the beacon november 11, 2008 • laura
beard, catalog, bruno david gallery, essay by charles schwall, november 2008 • fresh
paint, fresh faces, inaugural columbia invitational, courtesy
of jason pollen by ladan nikravan vox magazine, october 9, 2008 • comments and reviews
of visual art, st. louis: open studios tour by rob miller 2008 • perception / abstraction, laura
beard aeling and gary passanise, by megan peters, the review, 2007 • varied show
of bold abstracts revels in the joy
of paint by teresa callahan, west end word, october 2004 • contemporary moves by sydney norton, west end word, october 2004 • laura
beard aeling - winterkill at the st. louis ethical society by jeff daniels, art critic
of the st. louis post dispatch, february 23, 2003 • something for everyone, by kate hackmen, kansas city star, june 29, 2001 «fresh raises expectations for the new», by caprice stapley
of the review, july 2001, vol 3, # 9 • abstraction for the sensory overload by ben shockey, the review, 2001 • driven to abstraction by robin trafton, kansas city star, march 30, 2001 • landscape go in all directions by jeff daniels, art critic
of the st. louis post dispatch, july 9, 2000 • this just in...
painting still alive by jeff daniels, art critic
of the st. louis post dispatch, summer 2000 • excavations: new
paintings by laura
beard aeling by jeff daniels, art critic
of the st. louis post dispatch, mar. 19, 2000 • new american
paintings volume 23, 1999 (national distribution) •: surreptitions by jeff daniels, art critic for st. louis post dispatch, april 1998 • extirpate by jeff daniels, art critic
of st. louis post dispatch, december 17, 1997 • extirpate by eddie silva, art critic
of the river front times, december 1997 • route 66 brings real art to life by Stephen weeks, the independent, september, 22, 1992 • artist converge for route 66 revisited exhibit by stephen weeks, the independent, gallup, nm, september 18, 1992 • route 66 art show a must see at red mesa by gaye brown, the gallup gazette, 1992 • primarily
paint at the laguna gloria art museum laguna gloria art museum, 1990
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of space», film by laura
beard and d. jansky 2002 museum
of contemporary art, «art cache», invitational group exhibit, st. louis, mo left bank gallery, «this is an image», collaborative exhibition with ann rast, st. louis, mo springfield museum
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paintings, volume 22, national juried exhibition in print springfield museum
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of contemporary art, «stations
of the cross» group exhibit, st. louis, mo 1993 laguna gloria museum
of art, «primarily
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As for the edges and fine details, while keeping almost everything soft, I added slight wisps
of hair in the mustache and
beard along the lit side
of the face, as well as lifting a bit
of paint from where the light hits the hair on the side
of his head.