John McNamara
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      • "The Obsession to Feel"
      • "Seduced"
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        • "Surveillance" >
          • "Breakdown"
      • "Echoes of Remnants"
      • "The Unforeseen and the Inevitable"
      • "Painters of the Past"
      • "The Gift" 36" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
      • "Where is Matthew Barrall?"
      • The Gift of Consciousness: The Challenge to Negotiate Meaning
      • "The Modernists" >
        • "Five of All" 24" x 36" oil/paper/panel 2019
        • "Secular Sanctuary" 48" x 72" Oil/Paper/Panel 2019
        • "It's What's Under the Hood that Counts"
        • "The Trail of Seduction" >
          • "Where the First Kiss Leads" >
            • "Exit 18: Vigil for Jay DeFeo" >
              • "KINGDOM' >
                • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
                • "Safety"
                • "Speed and Compression"
                • "Futility"
                • "Disease"
                • "Echo"
                • "Lost"
                • "Integrated Polarities"
                • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
        • "Empathy"
      • "Tripping"
      • "The Showoff and the Introvert" >
        • "The Inextricable Hold"
      • "Encounter" >
        • "Solitude" >
          • "WoW" 20" x 24" oil/paper/panel 2013 >
            • "Running" 24" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
            • "Echo"
            • "Cycle" 30" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017 >
              • "Apex" 30" x 20' oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                • "Compressed"
                • "Magic" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
            • "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained" 9" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
            • "Transcendent Banality" >
              • "Unreal"
            • "Glimmer" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "Death Valley" 12" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
          • "The Suitors" >
            • 5.10.16 - Landscape >
              • "Bridges and Plumbing"
              • "The Man"
              • "Possibilities" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2014
            • "Inside Out"
            • "Second Mortgage"
            • "Leveled"
            • "Fracture"
            • "The New Sculpture"
            • "Climbing"
            • "Duped"
            • "The Collapse of Pretense" >
              • "The Showoff and the Introvert"
            • "Mergers: 10 Paintings - 20Portraits" >
              • "Wise Ass"
              • "Century" 40" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2017
              • "Back to Square One"
            • "The Grid"
            • "Beauty and the Beast"
            • "Optimism's Promise" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2019
            • "Second Life"
            • "Moment"
            • "Monday"
            • "Landscape"
      • "The Doubt in Belief" >
        • "The Clan"
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "Fake"
      • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
        • "Encroachment"
        • "5.18.16"
        • "The Rigor of Facade"
        • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
          • "The Modernists" >
            • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "The Art World"
      • "Just Visiting" >
        • "White on Color" >
          • "10 Moments from the Twentieth Century"
          • "The Long Shot" >
            • "Survival of the Fittest"
          • "Encroachment" >
            • "Battle"
            • "The Idolatry of Longevity"
      • "Philosophy" >
        • "Beauty"
        • "Generic Reconstitution"
        • "Faceoff" >
          • "The Conservator" >
            • "The Loss of Memory: The Inability to Forget 24" x 30" o/p/p 2019
            • "Pathway"
        • "Minimalism's Maximalism" >
          • "Flashback"
          • "Larry's Place"
        • "Lost"
        • "Transcendence" >
          • "Old Time Painting"
        • "Fifty Times the Area"
        • "Lost" >
          • "The Flow" >
            • "Tug of War"
            • "Unreal"
            • "Who's on Top?"
      • "The Conspiracy"
      • "Stay in Tonight"
      • "Asleep at the Wheel"
      • "Lights Out"
      • "Trip"
      • "Queen of the Feminists"
      • "Lost"
      • "Untitled" (after the painting titled "Anticipation is Greater than Realization, 20" x 30", 2013)
      • "Memory"
      • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
      • "Weather System"
      • "Seduced Again"
      • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
      • "Intersection"
      • "Obsession"
      • "Unreal"

"Ten Moments from the Twentieth Century"

This grouping of paintings, 7/06 - 11/06, is titled “10 moments from the 20th century.” My goal was to pick ten images that made history, and then paint them with the goal of re-enlarging their original meaning. Each painting, using oil, paper and compound on birch panel, is two feet square. The specific moments the paintings are listed below each painting.

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 a solitary corpse in Sarajevo 

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Christopher Reeves filming first superman movie, 1978

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girls wearing mini dresses, 1969

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 Woodstock Music Festival 1969, revival, mud and rain, 1996

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Woodstock, NY, commune, 1970

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Hollywood set of “ The Greatest Story Ever Told” 1965

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Lennart Nilsson photographs inside the human womb, 4/30/65

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petrol bombs thrown by Catholics in Belfast

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Bruce McCandless jet packing untethered from Challenger spacecraft, 1984

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Aloha Flight 243, 1988

(1.) Bruce McCandless jet packing untethered from Challenger spacecraft, 1984 - (2.) a solitary corpse in Sarajevo - (3.) Woodstock, NY, commune, 1970 - (4.) Woodstock Music Festival 1969, revival, mud and rain, 1996 - (5.) petrol bombs thrown by Catholics in Belfast - (6.) girls wearing mini dresses, 1969 - (7.) Christopher Reeves filming first superman movie, 1978 - (8.) first launch of space shuttle Columbia 1981 / Hollywood set of “ The Greatest Story Ever Told” 1965 - (9.) Lennart Nilsson photographs inside the human womb, 4/30/65 - (10.) Aloha Flight 243, fuselage rips apart at 24,000 ft., 1988

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  • Recent Paintings
    • "Worlds" >
      • "The Obsession to Feel"
      • "Seduced"
      • "Whittling Down" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2020
      • "The Inextricable Hold" (2nd version) >
        • "Surveillance" >
          • "Breakdown"
      • "Echoes of Remnants"
      • "The Unforeseen and the Inevitable"
      • "Painters of the Past"
      • "The Gift" 36" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2021
      • "Where is Matthew Barrall?"
      • The Gift of Consciousness: The Challenge to Negotiate Meaning
      • "The Modernists" >
        • "Five of All" 24" x 36" oil/paper/panel 2019
        • "Secular Sanctuary" 48" x 72" Oil/Paper/Panel 2019
        • "It's What's Under the Hood that Counts"
        • "The Trail of Seduction" >
          • "Where the First Kiss Leads" >
            • "Exit 18: Vigil for Jay DeFeo" >
              • "KINGDOM' >
                • "Real Light" 40" x 48" Oil/Paper/Panel 2001
                • "Safety"
                • "Speed and Compression"
                • "Futility"
                • "Disease"
                • "Echo"
                • "Lost"
                • "Integrated Polarities"
                • "Utilitarian Abstraction"
        • "Empathy"
      • "Tripping"
      • "The Showoff and the Introvert" >
        • "The Inextricable Hold"
      • "Encounter" >
        • "Solitude" >
          • "WoW" 20" x 24" oil/paper/panel 2013 >
            • "Running" 24" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
            • "Echo"
            • "Cycle" 30" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017 >
              • "Apex" 30" x 20' oil/paper/panel 2013 >
                • "Compressed"
                • "Magic" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2013
            • "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained" 9" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
            • "Transcendent Banality" >
              • "Unreal"
            • "Glimmer" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "Death Valley" 12" x 12" oil/paper/panel 2013
          • "The Suitors" >
            • 5.10.16 - Landscape >
              • "Bridges and Plumbing"
              • "The Man"
              • "Possibilities" 20" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2014
            • "Inside Out"
            • "Second Mortgage"
            • "Leveled"
            • "Fracture"
            • "The New Sculpture"
            • "Climbing"
            • "Duped"
            • "The Collapse of Pretense" >
              • "The Showoff and the Introvert"
            • "Mergers: 10 Paintings - 20Portraits" >
              • "Wise Ass"
              • "Century" 40" x 30" oil/paper/panel 2017
              • "Back to Square One"
            • "The Grid"
            • "Beauty and the Beast"
            • "Optimism's Promise" 36" x 48" O/P/P 2019
            • "Second Life"
            • "Moment"
            • "Monday"
            • "Landscape"
      • "The Doubt in Belief" >
        • "The Clan"
    • "Anticipation is Greater than Realization" >
      • "Fake"
      • "Deep" 30" x 90" Oil/Paper/Panel 2017/18 >
        • "Encroachment"
        • "5.18.16"
        • "The Rigor of Facade"
        • "Let's Twist Again Like We did Last Summer" >
          • "The Modernists" >
            • "Monsters" 36" x 48" o/p/p 2019
            • "Mixing It Up"
            • "Untitled" (after Richard Hamilton and Robert MCHale)
          • "The Art World"
      • "Just Visiting" >
        • "White on Color" >
          • "10 Moments from the Twentieth Century"
          • "The Long Shot" >
            • "Survival of the Fittest"
          • "Encroachment" >
            • "Battle"
            • "The Idolatry of Longevity"
      • "Philosophy" >
        • "Beauty"
        • "Generic Reconstitution"
        • "Faceoff" >
          • "The Conservator" >
            • "The Loss of Memory: The Inability to Forget 24" x 30" o/p/p 2019
            • "Pathway"
        • "Minimalism's Maximalism" >
          • "Flashback"
          • "Larry's Place"
        • "Lost"
        • "Transcendence" >
          • "Old Time Painting"
        • "Fifty Times the Area"
        • "Lost" >
          • "The Flow" >
            • "Tug of War"
            • "Unreal"
            • "Who's on Top?"
      • "The Conspiracy"
      • "Stay in Tonight"
      • "Asleep at the Wheel"
      • "Lights Out"
      • "Trip"
      • "Queen of the Feminists"
      • "Lost"
      • "Untitled" (after the painting titled "Anticipation is Greater than Realization, 20" x 30", 2013)
      • "Memory"
      • "Anthroland" 48" x 40" Oil/Paper/Panel 1998
      • "Weather System"
      • "Seduced Again"
      • "Flux" 12" x 32" oil/paper/panel 2013
      • "Intersection"
      • "Obsession"
      • "Unreal"