(2024: Stone Corral Press, Taos NM) Hardcover
Painter and author Ken O’Neil discusses art processes in eloquent text accompanied by color plates of his artwork. The book was published in 2024 celebrating fifty years of his life’s work and adventures. As an abstract oil painter, this retrospective of his art is extensive, varied, and a sensual delight as well as his memoir style of storytelling and memories.
“One might ask what is the difference between Art at Work and Works of Art? Perhaps one answer is that there is a huge difference between these two concepts: the former is process; the latter is product.” While we pay great attention to the product, “the process…too often goes unnoticed. Perhaps one great example of Art at Work is a symphony orchestra. The conductor must guide the music of art, the product into a coherent composition of many disparate elements to produce on outcome, a creative work of art. This requires that many participants skillfully follow the conductor’s direction in other to produce the outcome. This is truly Art at work.”
(2024: Stone Corral Press, Taos NM) Hardcover
Painter and author Ken O’Neil discusses art processes in eloquent text accompanied by color plates of his artwork. The book was published in 2024 celebrating fifty years of his life’s work and adventures. As an abstract oil painter, this retrospective of his art is extensive, varied, and a sensual delight as well as his memoir style of storytelling and memories.
“One might ask what is the difference between Art at Work and Works of Art? Perhaps one answer is that there is a huge difference between these two concepts: the former is process; the latter is product.” While we pay great attention to the product, “the process…too often goes unnoticed. Perhaps one great example of Art at Work is a symphony orchestra. The conductor must guide the music of art, the product into a coherent composition of many disparate elements to produce on outcome, a creative work of art. This requires that many participants skillfully follow the conductor’s direction in other to produce the outcome. This is truly Art at work.”
