Girard, Art & Detroit: Snapshots of the Big Picture

  Master of Mud (aka artist) and former Center for Creative Studies (CCS), Detroit,  professor of art, Bill (William J.) Girard Jr., passed away in 2011. The website created to honor him is found at  https://girardsvasari.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- Bummer, man. Just a real bummer. At the beginning of 1981, California conservative and former actor, Ronald Reagan, had assumed the presidency of the country. Around mid-year, the dread disease that would come to be known as AIDS was first identified in the US. And just before Christmas, our hero, artist and professor of art, Bill Girard, was forced to remove two of his paintings from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Power Center exhibit in which he was one of the three featured artists.  One of the two paintings was MARS. The other was JUDY IN THE STARS. Article : WOE TO ‘MARS’ AND ‘JUDY IN THE STARS’  Hand dated: 12-13-1981 By Jeff  Mortimer News Staff Reporter Ann Arbor ...

  Master of Mud (aka artist) and former Center for Creative Studies (CCS), Detroit,  professor of art, Bill (William J.) Girard Jr., passed away in 2011. The website created to honor him is found at  https://girardsvasari.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- Meet the wizard (of science): Professor Dr. Robert Fuchs, Director Emeritus of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and former head  Head of the Department of Restoration and Conservation of  Written material, Graphics, Photography and Illuminated Manuscripts.     Nice smile, right? Now, meet the mysterious hieroglyphic code. Well, at least a lovely sample of it. It accompanies an equally lovely sketch.  Ballpoint pen on torn paper. 8.5" x 11"  Artist: Bill (William J) Girard, Jr., Royal Oak, MI 1940-2011 For reasons unknown, the artist, former Prof. of Art Bill Girard , decided to borrow Egyptian hieroglyphics and put them to work for his own purposes....

Master of Mud (aka artist) and former Center for Creative Studies (CCS), Detroit,  professor of art, Bill (William J.) Girard Jr., passed away in 2011. The website created to honor him is found at  https://girardsvasari.com/ Note: Most images are clickable. ------------------------------------------------------- Left to Right: Bill Girard, Father Nicholas Maestrini and collector, Bernice Kent. 1968. Behind  Kent, Girard's painting: Of Rumbling Wooden Wheels Going Through A Dusty Night The burglar  paid no attention at all to our collection of Girard paintings and sculpture. It was very depressing. My naturopath subsequently instructed me to treat this and all life issues with the balm of gratitude. She would surely be pleased to know that the burglary has taught me to be grateful for boors. Happily, at least one of the two investigating police officers could scarcely drag his eyes away from the large Girard painting, Fauvel. Th...