 
Huggybear
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Username: Huggybear
Post Number: 257
Registered: 08-2005
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| | Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 6:46 am: |    |
...for getting his painting, "Electron" on the cover of this month's DAC News. Issue also has an interesting article on the Book brothers, Washington Blvd, and the Book Cadillac. |
Danny
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Post Number: 4971
Registered: 02-2004
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| | Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 8:16 am: | |
YAY!!! Boileau, You are a true starving artist. Art is the telling of life and its pictures represents its words. |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 798
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 5:56 pm: | |
can we get a larger view? |
Realitycheck
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Post Number: 379
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 6:25 pm: | |
We've had the tell it from Huggybear . . .
. . . then the yell it from Danny . . .
. . . and now, a week later, it's time for the show it, as its creator does with a larger upload lower in this thread:
A 5-paragraph 'About the cover' note says, in part, that Lowell's 1985 acrylic on canvas is from his 'Michigan at the End of the Industrial Age' series. The blurb adds:
quote:His 'not real but possible' image is an allegory of the tensions resulting from the city's industrial-to-information age transformation. Elements of Detroit dominate the work -- the Book Tower heavily laden with microwave communication towers, the Straits of Detroit, downtown freeways and Belle Isle in the distance.
And no, I'm not a DAC member
( . . . not that there's anything wrong with that )
(Message edited by RealityCheck on September 21, 2006) |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4352
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 6:53 pm: | |
Funny, Michigan economic development ads on natl. tv bragg about Michigan's leadership in making new batteries.
To them atleast, the machine age is NOT dead around Michigan. They say Michigan has manpower, capital, and knowledge as widget makers.
Did Lowell speak too soon in 1985? Or do the tv ads not reflect the Detroit and Flint's rustbowl?
jjaba. |
Milwaukee
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Username: Milwaukee
Post Number: 141
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 10:45 pm: | |
My dad gave me a copy of the magazine, after he got back from Detroit recently. I loved the cover and then I saw that Lowell had done. I really love the painting, really cool. Good articles in the magazine too about stuff going on downtown. |
Barnesfoto
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Post Number: 2502
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 10:49 pm: | |
A good day for the artist, and for the DAC.
Does Lowell get a discount on membership or a few bono meals at the DAC Grill?
Don't forget, kids, to wear your jackets when you visit the DAC. |
Lowell
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Username: Lowell
Post Number: 3008
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 1:28 am: | |
Thanks for the kind remarks. The cover "Electron" is a crop of this image, a 68 x 48 inch acrylic on canvas painting.
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Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4356
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 1:37 am: | |
Absolutely awesome Lowell. The colors are so vivid! Can Lowell give us a tour of the sites in the painting?
jjaba. |
Mauser765
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Post Number: 1027
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 5:50 am: | |
That is insanely good - what a trip.
Danny, "starving artist" is not a politically correct term and should not be waved around like a compliment of some sort. Its a stupid stereotype. |
Dabirch
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Post Number: 1868
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 7:09 am: | |
quote:Danny, "starving artist" is not a politically correct term and should not be waved around like a compliment of some sort. Its a stupid stereotype.
So is gayville, snobbyville, hitlerville, and pretty much everything else that comes out of his keyboard. |
Kathleen
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Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 1588
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 7:15 am: | |
Stunning image, Lowell!!! Thanks for posting it so that we can see its full glory!!! And congrats on making the DAC magazine cover!!! |
Superaygun
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Post Number: 525
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 8:17 am: | |
BEAUTIFUL, Lowell. Congrats and hugs! |
Realitycheck
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Post Number: 380
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 8:21 am: | |
Oh yeah, I sure do like your full-frame versions better, Lowell!
. . . and also welcome a bonus benefit from your sale to the mag: Editor-publisher Ken Voyles encourages his readers to visit our club:
quote:His current major work is the DetroitYES Project, a 1,500-page website inspired by the transformation of Detroit through the industrial age to information age. At the core of DetroitYES.com is Boileau's well-known 'The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit' tour that attracts more than a million visitors each year.
Great way to draw more guests to this salon, LB. So although we needn't wear jackets, let's try to behave, kids. Company is coming. |
Southen
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Post Number: 4
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 10:03 am: | |
Very nice painting Lowell. The skyscraper almost looks like a combination of the Book and Broderick Towers. I like it! |
Lowell
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| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 11:19 am: | |
Jjaba in answer to your request, my style isn't realist; I describe it as possiblist – about the possible rather than actual. ‘Electron’ is a future/past composition with many Detroit hooks.
The foreground building is a combination of the Broderick on the bottom and Book Tower on top sandwiching a forested penthouse. In post-industrial transformation, it becomes a hilltop for relaying information and a penthouse entertainment venue. In the back ground a 'sort of' straits of Detroit flows toward a maybe Belle in mirror view of actuality and downriver. An aimless Fisher-style freeway kind of winds into the river. A bygone WWII-style industrial zone and neighborhood bustles with activity while a five sisters pumps out the electrons in the distance and an ersatz Windsor twinkles across the straits.
Electron was intended as a painting first, about color, composition and light, then a discourse on the electron and its implications. The tilt and plunging perspective adds to a sense of unease, a feeling of movement and change that Detroit was, and still is, in the grips of, but stabilized by the eternal geographic features of straits.
Southen, you nailed it. |
Gsgeorge
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Post Number: 16
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 1:14 pm: | |
this is absolutely awesome, Lowell. Any way to purchase a print or copy from you? |
Jjaba
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Post Number: 4363
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 2:10 pm: | |
"Aimless Fisher Freeway?"
You are talking about a sliver of Interstate 75, a thoroughfare connection for indistrial Detroit to all of its customers from Canada to the bottom of Florida.
Thanks for your perception of Belle Isle being in the wrong side of the piece. It really does belong on the the Westside, eh.
Art is perception and you can take all the artist's license you want. You are our hero!
jjaba. |