marsha, steve, SA
> > It's a constant > > struggle to wipe away what one thinks and see > > directly. > There is a WONDERFUL biography about the contemporary artist, Robert Irwin from California called: "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" (I put the link and some of the reviews below) This book changed my way of thinking about A LOT of things. When you read the review below - in my mind - don't skip the first chapter. The stuff about the way he thinks about cleaning his engine and the beauty of the car is WONDERFUL absolutely like ZMM - he 'might' even reference ZMM in the book - I can't remember..but even if it's not directly referred to - it's obvious there is a connection. http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Forgetting-Name-Thing-Sees/dp/0520049209 By Simone Federman "Theatre Director/Professor" (New York,New York) - See all my reviews I picked up this book in 1984 because it was on a reading list for an Art History class I was taking at Oberlin College. I stayed up all night in the library that night. I couldn't put it down. My mind has never been the same. I still often think of it,tell stories from it and give it as a gift. I always say "skip the first chapter-it gets much better." If I remember right, the book begins with a description of Irwin's perfectionism when cleaning the engine of his car. I figure that will bore my friends. I tell my students about Irwin's many years attempt to make the perfect line, to his wife's chagrin and his painting the back side of his paintings because it matters to him. They like the story of the riots that occured in South America due to the disorientation of his discs-concave and convex-the viewers couldn't tell where the wall started and the disc stopped. I have given the book as a graduation present. I thought about this book at the mechanic the other day. My engine is very, very dirty. ---------------------- By "bluthman" (Stanford, CA United States) - See all my reviews This was an amazing read. Not only did it open my eyes to the concept of abstract art, but it opened my eyes to a different way of thinking. I highly recommend this book. ------------------------ Margaret > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Heather Perella > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 7:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [MD] Painting > > > > [Marsha] > > The first thing I learned when trying to draw or > > paint was how > > insidiously my mind would want to overlay what it > > thought it knew > > onto the seeing experience. The mind thinks 'a tree > > is green', > > therefore a tree is seen and painted green. In > > fact, a tree is green > > AND a multitude of non-green colors. The mind > > distorts experience by > > overlaying previous patterns onto emerging patterns. > > It's a constant > > struggle to wipe away what one thinks and see > > directly. > > > > Marsha this is how I experience intellect. My > intellect will automatically think, but the > intellectual experience for me is not about the > thinking, the thoughts, and the gains of intellect. > That's a half finished job of intellect. The finished > job of intellect is "to wipe away what one thinks and > see directly". This latter is what I find the > intellect doing. Not gaining thoughts and insights, > but losing them, thus, gaining more than myself, more > than what I think. This is what I find intellect > doing when relating to dynamic quality. This is what > intellect does when following the code of art. Each > level peeks morally when in direct experience with > primary reality. > > > thanks. > > SA > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > ______________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.4/1187 - Release > Date: 12/16/2007 11:36 AM > > No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.4/1187 - Release Date: 12/16/2007 11:36 AM Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
