my other JLNobody original

(I remember that painting. Very strong.)

Osso, do you use Photobucket? I vaguely remember looking them up, but I seem to remember that I couldn't understand their instructions. Do you still have their email address? Maybe I'm hallucinating...again.

Letty, yes, I can understand how you might see the eye of a hurricane. That might be partly because you live in Florida and partly because of the effect of Dys' flash. I saw part of an old movie on TV yesterday. Kirk Douglas captained an aircraft carrier that entered a time warping storm and returned to the days of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The storm looked much like my image. So much for originality.

Of course your painting is original, JL. Mona Lisa looks like my seventh grade math teacher.<smile>. I would think the beauty of your painting is that different people see different things every time they view it. That's originality. You said yourself that it was a paradox.

Yes, Letty. I don't want to overstate it but I believe that the artistic experience, the appreciation of beauty, results from BOTH the artist's actions and those of the viewer. A viewer who has not cultivated his or her aesthetic taste or capacity cannot appreciate a work no matter how good it is. And it may not be too wrong to say that a really open and creative viewer might find beauty in an indifferent work. Therefore, if someone likes something I've done, they get part of the credit. And if someone does not like something I think is good, my answer to him might be "Shame on you!"

P.S., Dyslexia was very creative when he appreciated to two works of mine that he purchased. Hell, he even changed their titles.

Well, JL. I am certainly not going to disagree with you on your own work, and I'm not quite certain what you mean by "cultivating aesthetic taste", but yes, it is a two way endeavor.

Of course dys changed the titles. You don't think for one moment that dys is a sheep, do you. <smile>

Just to let you know letty, I've hung the JLNobody right next to my prized work of the Elvis on Velvet. Good taste is timeless.

(smiling - I'm a fool for velvet)

here 'tis -
http://photobucket.com/

pm me and maybe (maybe...) I can help.

Ahem cowboy, OUR JLN paintings! Just because you picked them out doesn't mean that I wasn't a part of the action.

I have said on another site that this painting is one that I had seen before. I don't ususally guess what the artist's meaning is, but this one is so like one of my fantasies of the sun growing bigger in it's death throws that I knew immediately what it meant.

It is too bad that the flash caused a reflection. The colors and, as JLN said, the gradations need to be seen in order for the subtlties to be appreciated.

Now I'm going to find the cowboy and sit on him until he agrees to change the title of this thread. I hope he enjoys it...

Thanks so much Diane. Now I'll call off my lawyer. Velvet indeed.

Thanks, Osso. I'll give it a try, and pm you if I have problems. Why is it free?

I think if you want a large personal site, it isn't free, there is a (if I remember rightly) yearly fee. That is, I think, for folks who want to have different categories and a very large amount of storage, which may be me when and if I get my act together - I have a lot of photos/slides on a lot of subjects.

Someone on a2k said they like imageshack better, but photobucket is the first one I've tried and it works for me so far. I think Joe Nation uses imageshack (image shack?).

On your sun painting, I admit to thinking of Munch... not that you are doing Munch, but that there are underlying resonances. Post Munch, but a painting of its own time and power.

Thanks, Osso.
Are you thinking of that "sunrise" painting of Munch? That was very powerful, almost painfully so. It was titled The Sun (1909-11).

I don't know which painting of his in particular - perhaps it is the effect of resonating sun (or, in your brush, dying sun). More, I think, to do with an expressionist movement, than either sun or not. Never mind reverberance - all paintings reverberate, and most should be so lucky as to have a munchian shimmer. Yours stands well on its own feet.

Love those German artist of the past!

Yes, I love the German Expressions, Auguste Macke and Franz Marc, both friends of Paul Klee (not himself an expressionist, as I see it). The two tragic figures (both died young in WWI) really helped me to gain courage in the use of bold colors.

photobucket is dead easy to link to a2k from and to upload images to. I haven't tried image shack so can't comment on that. I'd be happy to help as well.

there's a new free website if you want a gallery style site http://sitekreator.com - and it has NO ads! I did have to watch the little green dragon explain how to create new pages etc about 4 times before I got to grips with it but then it's great. I've set myself up a site and it's proving very useful when talking to new galleries. (just delivered some work to a new one for a mixed show and they want me to have a 'featured artist' with one long wall and one short wall of work in September - painting painting painting frantically)

Yayyyy, Vivien. And thanks for the sitekreator link..

Yes, Vivien. Thanks, and a major horray!