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Paint The Town
"It takes a village to paint the town!"
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A community-based art project created by Kurt Stoeckel & Martin Whitney
at the San Francisco deYoung Museumís Artist in Residence program, February, 2006.
We place Kurt's white paper one-line cutouts (original art, not copies) on tables,
supply watercolor brush pens, and invite people of all kinds & ages to
"PAINT THE TOWN!"
The only rule is to fill all the white space.
When the entire cutout is completely colored, the art is finished.
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AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
For information on commissioning
a Paint The Town art event, call:
Kurt Stoeckel (415) 337-8650
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Each of the below photos shows art that the MUSEUM GUESTS
painted (with watercolor brush pens and Sharpie fine point black markers)
on my white paper one-line blade-cutouts. Each piece is LARGE...four feet
long (#1 & #2) and about six/seven feet tall for the portrait format piece (#3).
This was a wonderful interactive project,
and each of the pieces was painted by over ONE HUNDRED people!
Each piece by a DIFFERENT hundred people!
THINK ABOUT IT - If these three pieces hung (together) in a gallery
or a museum, most people would assume they were ALL THREE painted
by the same artist...eh?
QUESTION: Does the "Collective Consciousness" have a "style?"
Enjoy the tour!
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BELOW - FEBRUARY, 2006
deYoung Museum - San Francisco
Museum Guests
Artist & Volunteer Peggy Gyulai With Musuem Guests
#1 - The First PAINT THE TOWN Piece.
#1: Detail
#1: Detail
#2
#3
#3 Detail
Painted By Four Young Wonem - They Spent About TWO Hours!
Painted By Party Guests At The Closing Party
NEW SINCE THE deYoung SHOW...
Size - 16" x 20"
Drawing Cut By Kurt Stoeckel - March 31st, 2006.
(This entire piece is a ONE LINE cutout)
2,050 Dabs Of Color By Martin Whitney - May, 2006.
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BELOW - SEPTEMBER, 2006.
The pieces are painted monoprints,
done in a San Francisco assisted living facility.
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BELOW: PTT - Notes - July 4th, 2006.
What is Paint The Town?
People expressing the PLAY OF COLORS & making a lasting impression on the town.
PTT - Blessings on the soul of the town.
PTT - Expressions of the EVERYMIND. Buddha Consciousness.
PTT - One line hand cut white paper cutouts of:
1) Urban Landscapes
2) Urban Neighborhoods
3) Birds
4) Human Figures
5) Dogs, other animals, trees, and more.
PTT - Unique slices of the CAT SCAN of the EVERYMIND.
PTT - Secular ministry of expressing the ONE of Buddha Consciousness,
the LOVE connection, through the thoughtful brush strokes
that PAINT THE TOWN until all the white paper cutout is COMPLETELY COLORED.
PTT - Permissible Graffiti
PTT - Enchephlegraph Of The EVERYMIND
Paint The Town - QUESTIONS...
Why are all the pieces (so far) 3-D with the Hologram Glasses?
The first four PTT pieces look like they could all have been painted
by the same ONE ARTIST, instead of each one being painted
by 100 different people. Will this continue with future pieces?
Will we be able to tell one group painting a piece from another group painting another piece?
Will we be able to tell CHILDREN-painted pieces from ADULT-painted pieces?
PTT - PICTURE THIS...
Tom Sawyer, white picket fence to paint, Tom enjoys painting it, other kids ask what
he is doing, Tom says how much fun it is, kids ask to join in, Tom says okay,
kids paint the fence and enjoy doing it, Tom retires to a management position.