Immersion Technique

It started unnoticed from when I was a young art student forced to leave Pratt Institute, because of a TAP (tuition assistance plan) foul up (they changed the amount promised, leaving a tuition gap that could not be covered by loans or any other means). They sure found ways to get us radical hippies out of academia.

Anyway in the newly formed Soho area that I frequented from the late 60's, I happened upon a gallery around 1972. The work there was very interesting and I thought the quality of my work, at which time I was into surrealism, could match. I talked with the dealer owner, who asked to see slides of my work. Being a starving artist still living at home with no job at the time (72' recession), I hadn't any slides, let alone a camera to photograph them with. So I got my works together in a portfolio and a rather large piece in 2 sections of 36" X 72" (which has since been lost) and got on the NY subway from the Bronx down to Houston St.

In the gallery, I showed my work and noticed how the patrons gathered around millingly walking trying glance and overhear the dealer. He offered to take my work into the gallery on consignment and asked if I knew what that was. I asked him to explain what that meant in terms of the gallery. After his explanation of paying and taking a commission when works sold, I decided in my young mind to take my work home instead, not knowing that even during this recession, only artist on the magnitude of Picasso or Richard Diebenkorn who was hot at the time got paid outright.

Bringing me to the immersion technique, you see at this time I was very confused artistically trying to find my own style. I knew what I wanted to do in my head, but had yet not the tools for with which to do them yet. After all the computer was brand new at the time and far away from any graphics capability. So I kept reading the magazine "Art In America" and lived the common life holding jobs in various capacities to make ends meet all the while observing and mentally noting my surroundings and society.

This is where the Avant Garde becomes important in respect to art. Usually an artist is separate and very aloof from society and noting and observing where they believe culture is. However I believe that an artist should become at one with his environment, bringing him closest to his the subject to observe, problem solve, educate and create!

As one of my old Pratt drawing instructors used to extol, for which I know have come to know and understand, "To draw the itchy ball, you have to get inside of it and draw your way out"! This was the technique I used in my latest and most profound piece I believe, "Green Zone - BGF Yellow Line Down". I put on the guise as an artist will do, in all truth, as just a simple parking lot attendant at Duke University, for the graduate students. This allowed me to meet the above criteria (observe, problem solve, educate and create!).

I will go into more detail on this in my website with installments of the piece in series.

Green Zone

An impromptu Avant Garde performance piece was performed at the Duke University, Bassett grassy field Green Zone today. Well over 176 Duke Graduate students and their cars participated during their normal parking routine, in an art project today October 30, 2008 at the serene garden campus.

Most performance pieces are witnessed and done without any recordings of the event. This work was special in that it was photographed and will be installed online as an photo journalistic !vent (internet montage work of art)

It Is Dawning

This is just a quick blog to announce the start of the "AA" (affordable art program). I called it affordable art, and my daughter suggested I call it the AA program. Take a look, now a new wave of Avant Garde can enjoy low cost art!

It's Coming To The Dawn

Well, now seems like the time to really sink into "the art for the masses" project. Very soon you will start to see my work in $5 signed and serialized 8 1/2" X 11" format. With some feedback from you, we'll see what the internet holds for the uptake of this artists work, on affordable card stock weight print paper.

Of course we'll still have the museum quality Giclee's available too.

On another note, in advance of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, this artist is starting an On Line personal documentary on the subject. In an unusual approach it will be in word, film footage, artwork, interviews with the artist and chock full of important references. Be sure to keep up with the website as it will be free and in an installment format.

Any interested in contributing materials please contact me at skycarl@gmail.com

Global Artization

Speaking of global artization, this artist has been so pre-occupied with 9-5'ing to keep from being a starving artist with 2.5 kids (the .5 is our cat "AfricaT") the while chatting with one of my photographer buddies Maggie Beresford from Down Under on Face Book, I came to find that I had been awarded the prestigious A.D.A (Advertising Design Art) Silver award for my art and website.

Here's what Catarina Lassi of the Italian ADA had to say:

Dear Carlos
is certainly worthy of the prize that we are sending!
Congratulations!

With a score of 82 points, we will assign the A.D.A SILVER AWARD!


Carlos L Romero brought to us his Web site in a very ingenious way.

This Web site is a personal one, however the author had the ability to create a peculiar way to shows his work and, at the same time, to teach general public something more about Art.

With a smooth composition, an original structure and a great portion of good taste Carlos L Romero introduces the observer in the peculiar shapes of his works and in the sumptuous world of the Art.

A excellent Web site to be seen carefully.


September 27, 2008

Screen Shot of http://www.carloslromero.com can be finding in the following page

This is just part of the radicalization I'm talking about. Artist have always been at the Vanguard of shaping the Global World in a more beautiful way. Just think of the cave paintings of Lascaux or the paintings on the pyramids. These images form the impressions we have of life at that time and now with the internet travel has been omitted as an obstacle to this realization.

Radicalize It!

Now after some experimentation and crystallizing the use of digital electronics in the use of drawing and painting, its time to for my art to start getting radical. This thing with Amazon and the UPC codes is just part of the bigger picture of the financial crisis.

Art should document and reflect the times in which it exists, and this worldwide financial crisis is prime material for art. We are witnessing an extreme globalization process, whereby the powers that be, are transforming the face of the world as we know it. No longer is it my company, your company, Japan's economy, Canada's economy, it's the Global Economy.

Everything must be stamped and cataloged into the Global economy. Can art withstand this onslaught? We shall see. For you must understand art is the last hold out. Books records, everything has been UPC'ed, to fit neatly in it's place into the global economy so we know who owns what.

However art is truly a creative commodity that resists compartmentalization. Unlike records that have producers and such art is a singular effort, always morphing into the shape the artist creates from the malleable substance that it is.

Keep your eyes on this standalone commodity. Globalization is here!