Speed of Life

  Changes/ David Bowie 41" x 25.5" pastel on paper 2017 by Gregg Chadwick 75th Anniversary of his birth - David Bowie was born on this day in 1947. His decades of groundbreaking music and his shape shifting persona, inspired so many of us little aliens in suburbia to fight against conformity and become our true selves. My artwork looks back on Bowie when he released his haunting song "Where Are We Now?" , which is as much a painting in soft greys as it is a song. A quiet rhythm of drums and synth warp and weft with minor key piano chords and Bowie's plaintive, elegiac voice. Set in a Berlin of memory and dream, Bowie's voice and lyrics question the themes of human bondage, release, freedom, doubt, ageing, and death. Bowie lived in West Berlin between 1976 and 1979 in the Schöneberg district in a house with Iggy Pop while Brian Eno and Tony Visconti were helping record Bowie's Berlin trilogy of albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger in the now legendary Hansa St...

Happy Birthday to Edgar Degas born on 19 July 1834! " Four Dancers" @ ngadc https://www. nga.gov/collection/gal lery/gg89/gg89-46597.html   … Edgar Degas   1834 - 1917 Four Dancers , c. 1899 oil on canvas 59 1/2" x 70 15/16" National Gallery of Art -Chester Dale Collection photo by Gregg Chadwick

Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     4s 4 seconds ago Sant a Monica, CA Happy Birthday to Salvador Dalí! Born on this day in1904! http:// ow.ly/MOjzD   @ Tate

Musée du Louvre  ‏ @ MuseeLouvre     3m 3 minutes ago # Onthisday in 1452 was born # LeonardoDaVinci . Admire "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" : http:// bit.ly/1NHx8YD  

  Happy Birthday to Vincent Van Gogh! - born on this day in 1853. " Self-Portrait ," 1889 http:// 1.usa.gov/1jdIrEA   @ ngadc Self–Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler) , 1887 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) Oil on canvas; 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm) Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967 (67.187.70a) Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Gregg Chadwick Eadweard Muybridge Muybridge Animal Locomotion, plate 288 circa 1887 ©  University of Pennsylvania  | uarc@pobox.upenn.edu "....'See how curiously,' said Mr. Muybridge, referring to a photographic series (Plate 288 shown above) of one of our most prominent University baseball nine, 'and yet how perfectly, this plate illustrates the occurrence of an error in catching.' True enough. In the successive pictures the ball is muffed, strikes the player's thigh, runs up under his arm and across his back, while he is looking eagerly on the wrong side for it." - The  Pennsylvanian , 1886  In the 19th century the railroad, the telegraph and the camera transformed our experience of space and time.  JMW Turner's painting  Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway  documents in oil paint the beginnings of this perceptual shift.  In Turner's work, the powerful steam engine races from the painting's perspectival vanis...

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." (Martin Luther King, Jr.) An August Dream 18"x36" oil on linen 2009

Gregg Chadwick American Dreams: Barack Obama oil on linen 2009