L Haywood Coffey

From Nina Paley

L Haywood Coffey — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:34:00 GMT

Photo Of Colored Glass Champagne Flutes

L Haywood Coffey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:43:00 GMT

Picasso's Guernica

L Haywood Coffey — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:43:00 GMT

Jordan Lake Photos

L Haywood Coffey — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:57:00 GMT

The Shepard Fairey Obama "Hope" Art Controversy

L Haywood Coffey — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:51:00 GMT

NEW YORK – Shepard Fairey's claim that he had the right to use a news photo to create his famous Barack Obama "HOPE" poster became a widely watched court case about fair use that now appears to have nearly collapsed.

ByFriday night, his attorneys — led by Anthony Falzone, executivedirector of the Fair Use Project at Stanford University — said theyintend to withdraw from the case and said the artist had misled them byfabricating information and destroying other material.

Fairey himself admitted that he didn't use The Associated Press photo of Obama seated next to actor George Clooneyhe originally said his work was based on — which he claimed would havebeen covered under "fair use," the legal claim that copyrighted workcan be used without having to pay for it.

Insteadhe used a picture the news organization has claimed was his source — asolo picture of the future president seemingly closer to the iconicred, white and blue image of Obama, underlined with the caption "HOPE."Fairey said that he tried to cover up his error by submitting falseimages and deleting others.

The distinction iscritical because fair use can sometimes be determined by how much of anoriginal image or work was altered in the creation of a new work. IfFairey didn't need to significantly alter the image he used — in thiscase the solo shot of Obama — then his claim could have beenundermined. Fair use cases also may consider the market value of thecopyrighted material and the intended use of the newly created work.

"Shepard Fairey has now been forced to admit that he sued the AP under false pretensesby lying about which AP photograph he used," said AP vice president andgeneral counsel Srinandan R. Kasi. "Mr. Fairey has also now admitted tothe AP that he fabricated and attempted to destroy other evidence in aneffort to bolster his fair use case and cover up his previous lies andomissions."

Kasi said Fairey's admission struck "at the heart" of Fairey's defense that he was protected by fair use.

Kasisaid the AP would continue to pursue its countersuit alleging thatFairey willfully infringed the AP's copyright. It was not immediatelyclear from the statements issued and court filings if Fairey wouldcontinue with his case, but a person close to Fairey said that theartist would. The person was not authorized to discuss the case andspoke on condition of anonymity.

Falzone saidin a statement that the legal team's decision to withdraw had nothingto do with the "underlying merits" of Fairey's case.

"Webelieve as strongly as ever in the fair use and free expression issuesat the center of this case, and believe Shepard will prevail on thoseissues," Falzone said. "We hope this unfortunate situation does notobscure those issues."

Laurence Pulgram, an intellectual property lawyer who represented Napster in a copyright fight with the rock band Metallica, said Saturday that Fairey's case was in trouble.

Link to full report

Georgia O'Keefe Movie

L Haywood Coffey — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:07:00 GMT

This weekend on Lifetime Movie Network there was a wonderful movie based on the life of Georgia O'Keefe. If you wander into this blog and are just now discovering that fact that the movie was aired, please try to find it if and when it is repeated. It's most certainly worth the time of anyone who has an interest in art and O'Keefe. Joan Allen plays O'Keefe and Jeremy Irons as husband, photographer Alfred Steiglitz, who is portrayed in this movie as a real bastard. Both Allen and Irons deliver incredible performances and the make up artists did a great job making Allen look very much like the real Georgia O'Keefe. The movie is filmed in O'Keefe's actual house (and now a museum), and the outdoor cinematography is incredible. This film concentrates on the marriage of O'Keefe to Steiglitz and it's only shortcoming is that the film "ends" as it were at the time of the death of Steiglitz in 1946, and O'Keefe died in thirty years later in 1986. No matter, this movie is a first class example of art imitating art. A must see!!!!

Completed Painting

L Haywood Coffey — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:57:00 GMT

Well, almost complete. I think this is the first draft of this painting. There will be another more refined one soon.

Painting

L Haywood Coffey — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:30:00 GMT

While I have finished this painting, this was the first step in what was supposed to be a logo for a body healing business. Now it's just a painting I'm working on and will do similar art in the future. The above was just the first step in this process.

Current Works

L Haywood Coffey — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:12:00 GMT

This is a painting I've been working on for some time, and it's not coming together as quickly as I'd intended.

Here is a close up detail of the face:

Here are few shots of completed work in the "Studio"

Here is a table I've painted:

Baby Love

L Haywood Coffey — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:44:00 GMT

A Restorer Finds A Butchered Pig In 17th Century Egbert van der Poel Painting

L Haywood Coffey — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:26:00 GMT

This is interesting:

An art restorer has found a hidden image of a butchered pig in a 17th century Dutch painting owned by a Michigan college.

Barn Interior, one of 16 paintings given to Calvin Collegetwo years ago, shows a woman and two children inside a barn. It waspainted by Egbert van der Poel, who lived from 1621 to 1664.

Last summer, Calvin director of exhibitions Joel Zwart sent the picture to Chicago art conservator Barry Bauman for cleaning.

Bauman noticed that a ladder on the left side of the painting had been heavily painted over and the paint was flaking.

Underneath, he discovered the pig, butchered and stretched hanging upside down from the ladder.

"Itwas painted over, and the obvious question is, Why was it paintedover?" said Zwart. "Well, it was most likely not covered over by theartist. Very likely a wealthy patron bought it.

"It's thisgrotesque scene, this butchered animal hanging in a barn. And quitelikely this patron hired another artist to paint it over."

District 9

L Haywood Coffey — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:22:00 GMT

District 9 is a great movie. That's an amazing statement from me, since I hate "message movies". Still, District 9 pulls off being an obvious allegory against Apartheid as well as being an ass kicking Science Fiction movie. This a movie filled with surprises such as an unheard of actor Sharlto Copley as main actor. Copley turns out to be incredible in this role as an average Joe thrust into an incredible situation not of his making. The title of the movie, "District 9" is a slum where Space Aliens are housed after a huge alien craft comes to earth and does nothing but hover of Johannesburg South Africa. The craft floats in space till the South African government sends the military to cut into the into it to discover starving bug like aliens. They bring the creatures to earth but when humanitarian efforts to integrate the aliens into human society fails, the aliens are relegated to "District 9". Now is the time for the aliens to be evacuated to District 10, an area further from humans, and Wickers Dee Meer, actor Sharlto Copely as a low level bureaucrat gets the job of getting signatures from the aliens themselves as "permission" for them to be moved to the new home. As you most likely expect, things to very wrong for Wickers when he accidentally sprays himself with some sort of alien liquid that begins an unwelcome transformation.

This movie could have been heavy handed moralistic tripe, but instead it's an ass kicking full throttle blast, with all the accompanying explosions and futuristic weaponry you'd expect from a good Sci Fi romp. Be warned, this movie is violent, and not for children. This movie rocks, is filmed in an unusual manner and even has a tender touching ending. Go see this one!!!!

Sydney, From Clyde Fest

L Haywood Coffey — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:04:00 GMT

When I went to ClydeFest held in Bynum I encountered this tiny beauty and photographed her to include in my blurb about Clydefest itself. Then I lost the disk of the photos, but just found them. In addition to being a lovely girl, she has the name of a cat I owned (or more accurately, owned me) that lived for 19 years. So, it seems all things beautiful share the name "Sydney".

Just Hung Art At Starbucks On Peace Street In Raleigh

L Haywood Coffey — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:31:00 GMT

Just Hung Art At Starbucks On Peace Street In Raleigh. Considering my last name, getting my art in Starbucks is better than getting it into a gallery. In addition to hanging five pieces, I also met a beautiful little girl named Carly who is also an artist, as well as an adult woman named Courtney who is a fantastic fantasy artist. Great day so far!!!!

2009: The Year of The Avenging Sculpture: Artist Killed by His Own Controversial Public Art

L Haywood Coffey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:18:00 GMT

From the "You can't make this stuff up" department:

The sculpture, Mustang, was created by New Mexico's Luis Jimenez. It would come to rest outside DIA 12 years late, $350,000 over budget, and guilty of murdering its creator.

Whether you like the sculpture or not, it is notable. I first saw it in daylight and was taken aback by the garish blue color. It looks a giant plastic toy. Then I drove past it one night and was stunned. Nicknames like "Bluecifer" and "Satan's Stallion" make sense when you see those burning red eyes glaring at you through the darkness.

The public debate over Mustang places people in three general camps: those who think it's scary, ugly, and outrageous; those who appreciate the emotional and visual impact; and those who like it because so many other people hate it.

FULL STORY

John Myatt

L Haywood Coffey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:19:00 GMT

This Is Something You Just Gotta See

L Haywood Coffey — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Love 2008- Mesmerizing Sand Art - For more of the funniest videos, click here

Pigeons are trained as fussy art critics in bizarre study

L Haywood Coffey — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:58:00 GMT

I've always hated critics of any kind. This proves I'm right:

New Photos of Asheville, Carrboro, and Chapel Hill

L Haywood Coffey — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:49:00 GMT

New Photos can be found here.

Current Project

L Haywood Coffey — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:22:00 GMT

This is a photo of my current project. It's not quite completed. I need to do a little touch up work on this painting. This is the first of several iconic type works I'm doing in a series.