Ron,
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Ron Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > I have noticed also that often the > Most artistically driven people are > Often self absorbed. They are absent > Parents or spouse placing that drive > Before the ones they love. I have a few very talented friends who have > given up this aspect in pursuit of their > Craft. > Jc: There is an inner idea, that wants to be expressed and it's stronger in some than others and in a few, it is a powerful force for change. But sometimes it's just a selfish ego, striving for mere social recognition in a lazy lifestyle. Who can tell the difference? Not art critics! That's for sure. But not me either, so who am I to criticize. Ron: > I have tried to view parenting and marriage as an art and I think having > Practiced eastern martial arts > Influenced that point if view. > Jc: Lol. Yeah, every once in a while there's nothing like a karate chop upside the head, to help kids learn how to behave. I took San Soo Kung Fu, for a couple of years but it didn't influence my child rearing that much beyond taking a full horse stance when giving piggy-back rides. My biggest influence was my younger self. All the stuff I'd thought I'd do different, when I was a dad, I remembered when I got old, and I listened to. I was lucky, I had a pretty good dad. Emotionally distant, like all dads were, back then. But he spoke truth to me, when we talked. He was pretty much an Indian dad, raised by an indian dad himself. These patterns pass on. The only trouble was, when I was a dad, I had girls. 1-2-3-4, just like that. I didn't know how to raise girls. We never had any in the family, before so I left it pretty much up to Lu. I guess martial arts did teach me to go with the flow, so I guess you're right, tho, in the end. Ron: > I still paint and draw, but it's usually > IllustrAtive of a concept or instructional to my children. > I have this urge to paint landscapes > People have painted landscapes for > Thousands of years, it's nothing new. > Jc: I think we only paint faces. It's true you pick out a face easily from a portrait. Picking out the face of a landscape is hard. Especially since a 2-d image of an environment is so narrow, so inadequate to the totality. But then, I suck at painting and drawing. Why draw a complicated picture when you can just type 1000 words? :) Ron: > People have painted thousands of landscapes in the brandy wine river > Valley where I now reside, it's nothing new. But that moment in time I'm > Attempting to capture is new and it's > Pleasing to do so. If you look at the finished work it looks no different > thAn every other landscape painting > Ever painted. It certainly could have been copied from a museum piece. > In short it looks static and boring > Jc: Exactly. Ron: But I know it's a one if a kind of a morning in May along the banks of the > brandy wine around 9 am to 10:30. A moment never repeated. > Just like raising fine human beings > Or influencing other people in positive > Ways. It seems static and pedestrian, > Not artistically driven in the least when you look at it, but I know it's > a one of a kind endeavor. > > There you go - "a moment never to be repeated". Images are lies. But you paint wonderfully with words, Ron. John 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/md/archives.html
