Joel
please don't feel you have to work your way through it all - I'm grateful for
you taking a look & thanks for the feedback, as always!
best wishesmichael
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From: Joel Weishaus <[email protected]>
To: michael szpakowski <[email protected]>; Netbehaviour
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] six drawings based on wallace stevens 'anecdote of
the jar'
Hi Michael;
"Map of a Robbery" reminds me of Kenneth Patchen's poem, "The Murder of
Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon-colored Gloves."
"The Wilderness Years": "The idea of looking out at the world was never
encouraged. It didn't occur to me for a long time that looking and
attempting to set out what one actually saw might be key and furthermore
that one's own attempt, the meeting between subjectivity, a 'skill' in
flux or development and a willingness to face failure, that is, the
performative part of it all, might be in and of itself worth something."
Cezanne would have agreed with this!
School bus driver? (Some beautiful work attached to it this drawing!)
"I did and do feel that an artist of any worth should be able to make
something of some interest (I'm keeping the bar deliberately low) with
the tools to hand or with a severely constrained set of tools."
As someone who still uses 15 year old Dreamweaver MX, of course I agree
with this.
Kingfisher movie: Interesting.
A self-portrait: Powerful. "cultivating patience."
A few days ago, I picked up a used copy of Robert C. Morgan's, "The End
of the Art World," mainly for a short piece in it, "The Boredom of
Cezanne." "What grabs the viewer of a Cezanne painting," Morgan writes,
"is not the artist's astonishing sense of structure, as in Seurat, or
his bold use of color, as in van Gogh, or his sense of shape, as in
Gauguin, or even his acuity of perception, as in the late-period Monet.
What comes across in Cezanne is his contribution to boredom---a concept
of time, I would argue, that is essentially French."
I don't have the time now for the rest, which, breezing through, looks
worthwhile spending time pondering..
Warmly,
Joel
On 8/12/2014 1:18 PM, michael szpakowski wrote:
> Because I don't have any sense of a formalised approach to drawing -I
> never "learned how" to do it - every one seems like starting from the
> very beginning & every one seems like a miracle when it "works" and
> depresses me when it doesn't. That said I wouldn't have it any other way
> but I feel "gifted in the basics of art", for me at least, would be
> flying under false colours...
> I wrote a piece called "learning to draw in public" -it's here
> http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/
> and it enlarges upon my uncertainties at some length...
>
>
>
> cheers
> michael
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Joel Weishaus <[email protected]>
> To: michael szpakowski <[email protected]>; NetBehaviour for networked
> distributed creativity <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 8:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] six drawings based on wallace stevens 'anecdote
> of the jar'
>
>
>
> Why?
>
>
> On 8/12/2014 12:17 PM, michael szpakowski wrote:
>
> thanks Joel & Edward. "gifted in the basics of art" fills me with intense
> anxiety though :)
>> cheers
>> michael
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Joel Weishaus <[email protected]>
>> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>> <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 8:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] six drawings based on wallace stevens 'anecdote
>> of the jar'
>>
>>
>> It's always good to see someone gifted in the basics of
> art, such as
>> drawing. And these are amazing!
>>
>> -Joel
>>
>>
>> On 8/12/2014 9:33 AM, Edward Picot wrote:
>>> Michael -
>>>
>>> I particularly like the third one and the last one,
> both of which give
>>> a real feeling of the solidity and glassiness of the
> jar.
>>> - Edward
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
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