Inspired

SAUCERS ATTACK PITTSBURGH

by Mike  Hill
published by Workshop 13, 2011
http://workshop13.net/

 

 Violins and Shovels

The WPA Arts Projects

Milton Meltzer

1976

Delacorte Press

New York

 

 

Modernman

Modernman, "Future" (detail); Mike Hill 2004
from Maximum Traffic's White Bufallo Gazette

Modernman

"Modernman, 15 Minutes of Fame" (detail) by M. Hill 2008
originally published in Delaine's Not My Small Diary

Modernman

originally appeared in The White Bufallo Gazette

Modernman

Originally appeared in Not My Small Diary

The Inner Ear

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein

Franz Kline

M. Hill 2013

The Inner Ear

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso

Work In Progress #2

Mike Hill 2013

Thoughts emerge as demons
I have myself in my clutches

-M. Hill

 

 

Brussels, Belgium                                           M. Hill 2012

Dreamgirl

 Style Sketches for "Dreamgirl"

 

Zero

Let's start from zero

Forget the ruin of yesterday

See trees glow in the morning sun

-M. Hill

Blue Sun                                                            Alexander Calder

Graphic Futures

http://paulharrisonline.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html

 

Life Among the Surrealists

A Memoir by Matthew Josephson

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

New York, 1962

 

"They change their sky but not their mind who run across the sea."

-Horace, Epistles

New Grange, Ireland                                               M. Hill 2008

The Inner Ear

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

-Fran Lebowitz

Vladimir Mayakovsky in a fancy hat; c. 1913
http://girlwithhatbox.tumblr.com

Cover, Novyi LEF                   Alexander Rodchenko, 1927

Man Following the Setting Sun (detail)                                                          V. Mayakovsky, 1930

 

http://cultureru.com/category/visual-arts/pictorial-souvenirs-of-russian-writers/v-mayakovsky-1893-1930/

The Inner Ear

"An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it."
-Paul Valéry