Father/Son Collaboration

Yesterday afternoon artist Jay Rolfe attended the opening reception for his friend artist Antonio Puri and his son Alexander Puri who have collaborated on several large abstract paintings on canvas over the past few years starting in 2004. It was interesting that in the early years of the collaboration the son's style seemed to be the same as the father's style, so that one was unable to tell which part was painted by each. In the more recent paintings, the son has developed some of his own style and one can discern who painted some parts of the paintings. If Alex wants to pursue painting, he sure has a great start! They have titled their exhibit "My Kid Could Do That." The paintings are on display at Westtown School near West Chester PA.

That's the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses vibrant color, 3-D, recognizable shape, and huge size to reveal beauty, touch emotion in a positive way, and create an Uplifting Conversation Piece.

Rousseau at Barnes

Artist Jay Rolfe presents today's photo, one of the 16 Henri Rousseau paintings at The Barnes Foundation, "Meal Of The Rabbit" from 1908. This is a dramatic painting. I don't have an image of the type of painting Rousseau is best known for, the small humans in among the huge jungle plants, sort of "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" style. They are very entertaining.

Today artist Jay Rolfe had coffee and a long discussion about art with fellow artist Antonio Puri. We discussed some very interesting concepts.

This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's Unique Artistic Idea, his Hyper Representational 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe hopes you find his works to be the Uplifting Conversation Pieces he intends.

Matisse at the Pushkin

This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's unique artistic idea, his 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.

Today's photo is one of my favorite Henri Mattise paintings from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, "Nasturtiums And The Dance," painted in 1912. This was apparently painted before "The Dance" left his studio. It's a large and colorful painting, very typical of Matisse.

Last night I went to two gallery openings, one for my friend Antonio Puri at Rosemont College, and one for Erica Brown at The Arts Scene. Puri showed strong work consisting of 6 large scale paintings. They were all non-objective and very well received. Erica's paintings were, by comparison, small, but quite interesting, and reflected her Tyler Art School training.

Jay Rolfe: Art Forum ... my journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso

Don't you just love the future Jay Rolfe is projecting for himself? I do!

Last night, Thursday Feb 22, I went with my lovely and supportive wife Randy Rolfe (http://www.randyrolfe.com/) to the first of a monthly series of discussions by artists called Art Forum at The Arts Scene, the successor to the Holland Art House, in West Chester PA, run by contemporary art lover Ben Gall. http://www.theartsscene.org/ There's great food and drink at the Menta Cafe inside The Arts Scene, cheerfully dispensed by the "Dutch Masters," what I call the ladies who run it who are originally from Holland, and one of whom paints copies of Vermeer paintings. There were about a dozen artists with widely varying styles, as well as other guests, and we had a lively discussion. I now wish I'd thought to note the names of all the artists so I could credit them all. Jeff Schaller (http://www.pinkcowstudio.com/), Laura Barton (http://www.laurabarton.com/), and Antonio Puri (http://antoniopuri.com/) are the ones I knew or was familiar with. I really wish I had gotten info from the others. If you check out the websites of these three, you'll see how different they all are. I'm looking forward to next month.

That's the latest step on Jay Rolfe's journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You can see some expressions of my unique artistic idea on my website at http://www.3dssc.com/.