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Vivien, this image is SO exotic, I can't begin to "make sense" of it, to assign it some familiar meaning. This is, I believe, similar to the experience that Buddhists refer to as a pre-reflective perspective. They refer by this to all sensory experience before it has been assigned conceptual meaning. Next time I want to give someone an idea of what this "without thinking" perspective is like I'll refer them to this picture. It is so delightfully wierd. Very organic, but ambiguously so.
Im only familiar with Braques cubist work and his collages .
Whitney Biennial Highlights Hot Art Market
With the Whitney Biennial just opened, some of the works have already been bought by the Whitney museum itself. Contemporary art is hot: Bloomberg LLP is funding the outdoor sculpture exhibit at the Biennial, and thousands of visitors packed The Armory Show over the weekend to look at and invest in contemporary art. March 17, 2004. Here is the link to the interview.
Art Is Hot In NYC
Vivien, this last digital piece is very attractive to me, something about it goes right to my hypothalamus, or somewhere like that.
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THAT'S IT, Osso, the hypothalamus (somewhere in the primitive or mid-brain, not the cerebral cortex).
I have to say that I wasn't convinced, hypothalamically, heh, by the first digital pieces you showed here. Not to single you out, in a realm of unconvincedness. But these last few interest me.
You will laugh, whenever I manage to post my work, that I would speak to your work; it will seem retrograde. But never mind, I do engage, am engaged, while my own will look tame on the pendulum.
no osso, I'm sure I'll find them interesting - I like a wide range of art work, the same as music. When it is good it just works no matter what. I love the comments from you and jln - food for thought there definitely.
working on a set of paintings as a narrative enmasse. It consiste of about 9 or 11 paintings of Amish kids in different activities, but all part of the same scene. All 11 or 9 will have to be hung in a messed up grid pattern so that it will appear like a giant photo collage, except Im trying my ass off to paint in a primitive fashion. Thats hard when every ounce of training wants you to pay attention to pespective and balance and foreground etc. im all fired up and have gotten some of this Kilimonjaro paper smooth finish. I am doing three at a time so there is a continuity in style that is immediate. the three center paintings are of a group of 7 kids and involves a wagon as a prop. theres one kid pulling a wagon , alongside him is a girl and the wagon has a little kid the other 2 are three girls walking behind the wagon, and a panel with one kid running alongside the whole scene. i see these kids every day befoe I leave and I had to do them as a group. i bought a very small lipstick camera and i carry it as i take my one dog for a walk , the kids all like the dog so they dont notice me taking thei pix. ive downloaded a number of scenes since Dec and the kids have been captured on disc. Now im rearranging the scenes and starting to do my primitive style sketches. it sounds saccharine but Im trying to avoid that with an abstract arrangement and the more primitive style of figures. i want to avoid a cutesy look except for the arrangement on multiple sheets. then i plan to frame them exactly alike and put them in the ( shall remainunnamed unless i get juried in) watercolor show.
geez, farmer, sounds wonderful. I did a watercolor once, long ago, of some kids around a rooster, and gave it as a present to my boss at the time and wife (must've been out of money again) for their newborn (who is now about eighteen) and now wish I had a picture, it was a good vignette.
Hate to ask him if they still have it since it would be embarrassing for him to tell me no..
I try to ask people who buy my paintings to send me a photo of it in place, and reassure them I don't care if the picture isn't perfect, that it is a way for me to have a sense of continuity. I don't always follow through on this, but have been glad I did sometimes. I heard the other day that the woman who bought a big painting I did based on a photo from an a2k friend of a spot in ireland - anyway, her interior designer told her the frame she put on it was tooo garish (I would agree, I bet) and had it changed and now I will get a photo. See, m'paintings have lives...
and then I will send it to the a2k friend, so she will have this experience too.
FM did you ever succeed with the egg tempera?
yes. Ive been doing some works and , my only problem is to figure out how much to make at a time. It doesnt keep well , and I dont have all the time to devote to a lot of works. Im doing some experiments in sort of a primitive style in which Im featuring kids . Its not working out well cause I cant do primitive as easy as I thought. It looks contrived. I cant loosen up. Im working these in watercolor and they look more like bad watercolors than primitive style
They are probably better than you think FM. Every time I think about the egg tempera discussion I giggle, sorry, no offense meant but it was funny.
I forget what the point was except I got some good advice about using the medium in place of oils and I remember getting kind of grossed out about insects eating the paintings for the egg content. That sticks with me.
Eeeeek, the ants in the pigments oh my.
now your just showing off your new avatar, very Picasso, get some of the early lithos of Francoise Picasso .
Picasso used to do playful cute pics of his wives and girlfriends until his relationships started to decay. Then hed morph his works of them into hard angled almost hideous caricatures.
Well I have been thinking I should try a self portrait but have been scared to even try. Have you done any yet FM.
PS: There was an article in the Dallas Morning News about Thomas Eakins and nudity the other day. I will try to find the link.
thank you - that means a lot.
He did some rather nice landscapes too in his late career.
