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” To give body and perfect form to your thought, this alone is what it is to be an artist. “- Jacque Louis David- Good Morning….. 6 AM , my usual time of waking up and working on my blog here, but...
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“Your role in [ creating art] , if not easy, is at least clear: learn the things you need to learn in order to do the work you need to do. To learn and grow, artists need to be able to take comfort in...
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” The intuitive way in which I work allows me to build up a painting in layers so that each painting develops its own unique history. For me, a painting comes into being through mark-making without a...
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“What an artist chooses to represent or work from is one of the factors that makes every individual’s art distinctive and original. It can help if you have a good story to tell. Or if you have...
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“You won’t catch me brushing up on Matisse or Picasso. I prefer to research art created by the mentally ill, the homeless, the insane and the forgotten. They seem to all have one thing in common-the...
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” One of my favorite people in history is Philo Farnsworth. Forced to move from their home in Utah, his family settled in Idaho, where Philo reluctantly spent his time helping his father plow their...
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NOTES 1990 12 SEPTEMBER 1990. Accept that I can plan nothing. ” Any thoughts on my part about the ‘construction’ of a picture are false, and if the execution works, this is only because I partly...
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`Here are some more quotes that I found in a notebook while cleaning one day: The ability to measure and the ability to see negative space are the greatest assets in drawing. An artist looks for form...
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” Another dilemma that confronts many students occurs when they have been working on both abstract and representational pieces. They are equally interested in the two directions and at the same time...
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” Kandinsky is painting music. That is to say, he has broken down the barrier between music and painting and has isolated the pure emotion which, for want of a better name, we call the artistic...
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Many , if not most, artists have music on in the background while they are painting or drawing because there is a natural rapport between these two art forms. In certain forms of improvisational...
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SEVEN WAYS THE ARTIST SEES When you compare a Rembrandt to a Vermeer, it’s hard to believe they were practically neighbors, living at exactly the same time in a little country about twice the size of...
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“The practices that are now called painting and drawing are entirely different that what they were in past centuries. Painting has died – its central techniques have been lost- four times in the...
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EXCERPT TAKEN FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST, ROSS BLECKNER Do you work on one project at a time or several? I usually start a group of paintings in case I get bored of ne or I exhaust my interest in...
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taken from the book, Why Art Cannot Be Taught – A Handbook for Art Students by James Elkins: “We retain the Romantic re-invention of the “master class”. In order to foster individuality and freedom (...
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MASS Put an apple in a deep bowl. You can see that the apple takes up space inside the bowl. That perception of filled space is the primary characteristic of mass. Visual mass consists of areas of...
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Interview with Sabine Schutz (cont) Q: In 1976 you began to paint abstract pictures, because you wanted something that you cxouldn’t visualize in advance. In doing so, you invented a method that was...
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12 September 1990 Accept that I can plan nothing. Any thoughts on my part about the ‘construction’ of a picture are false, and if the execution works, this is only because I partly destroy it,or...
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5 May 1990 What sort of occupation is this, in which you can afford to be tired, or not in the mood – in which you can be off form for days or weeks on end and not do a thing? 24 October 1990 It...
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