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Welcome here at a2k, un-star. Are you an artist yourself? Some people who read the art forum are artists and many follow it out of interest.

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yes, i love art alot!! i sketch almost 24/7 lol!

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what do you sketch?

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well usually people, sometimes i design clothes or just draw whatever comes to mind

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truth
I stopped at a gallery early today, wildly attracted to a painting in the window. It was a work by the Italian painter, Agnese Udinotti. Her's was the only work shown at the time. There was a lady sweeping up inside. I expressed my appreciation for the work, beautifully ambiguous, subtle figures, very painterly and expressive. We had an interesting discussion. The lady really new her art history. I made very sincere appreciative comments on the works, even asked for the price list. But only bought a retrospective catalog. When I got home and unwrapped the catalog, I saw from the photo inside that I was talking to Udinotti herself. Glad my comments were so positive.

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Good experience, JL, for you and her.

We sold four watercolors yesterday, saving our respective asses for a while. It was a woman who had seen the Sacramento display who drove up to our place to see them again.

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JL, was it this person? is this her?

If anyone has any questions about oil painting I specialize in it.

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what medium was it in?

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along with everyone else I voted no

Pure copying is the sign of a lack of imagination. Taking a painting and moving it on is ok if you credit the original artist

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Yes, Portal Star, that is she. Wonderful images. By the way, I misspoke. She is Greek, not Italian; I was going by her name. Her work provides a great example of the distinction between prettiness and beauty. Next door to the gallery was another full of pretty pictures. The last time I was in there I felt like I was having a sugar attack from desserts. Udinotti's work is, by comparison, a gourmet pasta dish with lots of garlic.

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that's a nice way of putting it, JLN! Laughing

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I'm not an artist.
But appreciate the talent.
I'm reading a book right now by Charles de Lint called Memory & Dream about paintings having spirit that open a door to The Muses allowing them to enter our world.
Okay, it is a fantasy, but I think the characters in the book exhibit the drive of the artist very well.
(Not being one, i can only imagine.)
Bravo to artists everywhere!

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thank you! thank you very much!

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truth
Solar, bravo to you and all the other people who have evolved to the position of being able to appreciate art.

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Evolved?
oh yes, I remember how excited I was when i developed lungs and my gills closed up.
hehe
I hope to be walking upright any day now.
:wink:

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solar wrote:

I'm not an artist.
But appreciate the talent.
I'm reading a book right now by Charles de Lint called Memory & Dream about paintings having spirit that open a door to The Muses allowing them to enter our world.
Okay, it is a fantasy, but I think the characters in the book exhibit the drive of the artist very well.
(Not being one, i can only imagine.)
Bravo to artists everywhere!

solar; respectfully, you are wrong.

you 'are' an artist; art is as much in the perception, as in the message.
i consider art to be simply 'emotional communication'; and one cannot communicate without a receptive audience!

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truth
BoGoWo, I agree completely. Beauty is in the MIND of the beholder, whether it be the mind of the lay viewer or that of the artist himself as he views the work in process and responds with alterations or with leaving something as it is. The on-going process of artlistic creation involves the same kind of creative viewing as is exercised by the lay viewer. In other words, I understand this to be what you are saying: to appreciate the work of another person is to engage in artistic creation.
Solar, I used "evolve" metaphorically.

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Just having fun with 'evolve'. :wink:

And I accept BoGoWo's comment.
I've the soul, if not the talent.

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BoGoWo wrote:

solar wrote:
I'm not an artist.
But appreciate the talent.
I'm reading a book right now by Charles de Lint called Memory & Dream about paintings having spirit that open a door to The Muses allowing them to enter our world.
Okay, it is a fantasy, but I think the characters in the book exhibit the drive of the artist very well.
(Not being one, i can only imagine.)
Bravo to artists everywhere!

solar; respectfully, you are wrong.

you 'are' an artist; art is as much in the perception, as in the message.
i consider art to be simply 'emotional communication'; and one cannot communicate without a receptive audience!

I prefer people not use the word artist to mean anything but. Otherwise, I'm stuck explaining to people what it is I -actually- do all night.

"I'm an artist?"
"What kind of artist? A musician? A poet?"
"No, I'm a painter?"
"An oil painter?"
"Yes. And I am also a sculptor, and a sketcher, and a drawer with charcoal, and a watercolor illustrator..."

Much easier if you say "I'm an artist" and they don't think you mean Prince. Then I don't have to list off my diciplines by media. There are other words you people can use, seriously.

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