That was interesting Jim. So it may be hard to relate to someone who lacks
this ability to draw things as they appear. So maybe you can help me with this
question:
After you have the ability to realistically represent things on paper, what is
it that allows someone to interpret what they see
Great question, regarding abstract representation!! Love it - My stepsister is
an artist, primarily painting, and she just send me a self portrait that she
did, as part of a class she is taking, where she was restricted to just six
colors in her palate. It is just as you describe, abstracted
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote:
Great question, regarding abstract representation!! Love it - My stepsister
is an artist, primarily painting, and she just send me a self portrait that
she did, as part of a class she is taking, where she was restricted to just
Hey Steve, thanks for the reply. I agree that FFL is a great place to be
inspired to write daily. I used it that way for years.
Your story about the ill fated trip to the museum as a sketch expert has a
funny connection for me. My late uncle (not by blood unfortunately) was Joe
Jones who is
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote:
Great question, regarding abstract representation!! Love it - My stepsister
is an artist, primarily painting, and she just send me a self portrait that
she did,
Here you really hit my own visual artist limits. I don't get Pollock at all.
But on the other hand, I can't remember if I ever stood in front of one of his
originals. I need to go down to the National Modern Art museum in DC to see if
I can be nudged into appreciating him. Thanks for
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Hey Steve, thanks for the reply. I agree that FFL is a great place to
be inspired to write daily. I used it that way for years.
Your story about the ill fated trip to the museum as a sketch expert
has a funny connection for me. My
Yep - I totally get the intellectual vs full appreciation - same way for me
with Davis and Coltrane, and er...John Cage.:-) Yeah, the east wing of the
national gallery -- Pollock is there, along with amazing Matisse, scary de
Kooning, and those weightless mobiles by Calder
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Well as you know, the rich have always been the patrons of the arts. They
certainly were for my uncle during his life. And think of the Medici family in
Florence! They practically single-highhandedly financed Renaissance art.
Snowmass sounds like a great place to hang, I have never been
Looks EXACTLY like my previous commute!!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Well as you know, the rich have always been the patrons of the arts. They
certainly were for my uncle during his life. And think of the Medici family
in Florence! They practically
Here is a whimsical sketch he made for a friend that you may relate to as a
married man:
http://pbfineart.com/jjones/bed_600_417.jpg
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Hey Steve, thanks for the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray27 wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Hey Steve, thanks for the reply. I agree that FFL is a great place to
be inspired to write daily. I used it that way for years.
Your story about the ill fated
Hey Buck,
I thought you could appreciate his dedication to depicting the working
Mid-Western farmer in his daily toil. He was drawn to the honest laborer,loved
the Mid West, and felt this class of person was not getting a fair shake in the
capitalist system, even though they were doing the
Hiroshige's oeuvre was Van Gogh's main reference to the extent
that all the scenes and landscapes painted by Van Gogh from 1887 onward
are direct or indirect references to Hiroshige's art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WETfTMWDgic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WETfTMWDgic
I am sure you are
On 01/26/2013 12:58 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
On 01/26/2013 12:34 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Wow, I did not know that about them.
Yup, they were found, and then introduced to each other,
and then trained carefully, by Albert Grossman. He
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Well as you know, the rich have always been the patrons of the arts.
They certainly were for my uncle during his life. And think of the
Medici family in Florence! They practically single-highhandedly financed
Renaissance art.
Excellent rap. I, too, missed the essential parts of
education that can teach one how to draw, or that one
can. The fact that I can use words to create art (or
as close to it as I want to get) is directly due to
a few teachers who conveyed their sense of word-magic
to me, and taught me how to use
Wow, have fun. I think in schools the curriculum even for art is pretty much
set. And it does not involve spending loads of time in any one unit. Also,
kids get graded, to some extent, on their work, so that adds a layer of
tension. But you are right, this time to draw and experiment, with
It makes me wonder how much of education is just giving kids with a natural
inclination a track to run on rather than educating everyone up to a certain
level of competence in everything. What is interesting to me is how persistent
these self limiting ideas about ourselves are.
Some of it may
Yeah, you nailed it. I am still hopeful that the new direction of brain
research is gunna send schools running back to the arts. MRI's don't lie!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wrote:
Wow, have fun. I think in schools the curriculum even for art is pretty much
set. And it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Wow, I did not know that about them.
Yup, they were found, and then introduced to each other,
and then trained carefully, by Albert Grossman. He was,
possibly not coincidentally, the driving force behind
the success of Bob Dylan,
On 01/26/2013 12:34 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues wrote:
Wow, I did not know that about them.
Yup, they were found, and then introduced to each other,
and then trained carefully, by Albert Grossman. He was,
possibly not coincidentally, the
From: curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:40 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: When I stopped believing my own lie…
It makes me wonder how much of education is just giving kids with a natural
That was fascinating! Such a different path. But since you are a musician too
it shows that wee do have the capacity for both.
I'll check out the writing book. I'm sure it has been in my hands but I never
worked through it. The idea that drawing can open up more nonverbal creativity
arm raised, at my desk, Curtis!
uh...OKUh, Jim had his hand up first...
Anyway, I was one of those talented kids with art. I could look at something
and just begin drawing it, as it looked, starting at age ten or so.
It has always come naturally, also sculpture, and wood carving, although
Just to riff on this further, since you mentioned Van
Gogh, one of the most fascinating juxtapositions in
the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is a room in which
a couple of paintings created by Van Gogh when he was
an art student are displayed side by side with the
examples he was supposed to be
That is really fascinating! Thanks for posting this. I am looking forward to
discovering my own personal style as I develop as I have in music. I am a long
way from that but retrospectively I may see what I was drawn to.
I loved the energy in the paint swirls in the Van Gogh museum. That
Hey Curtis,
Thanks for the share. A couple things come to mind.
A couple times I've thought I had a book in me. I guess, I still do.
But I remember hearing an interview with an author on a call in show and
someone calling in with this same questions. The question put to the
caller was, how many
The thing is that I've seen so many people that just have the innate
ability. I had a grade school classmate who was exceptional from about
the first grade. And my high school friend just had it. That is what
I always found discouraging. My best work was in ceramics, but I
always, always,
On 01/26/2013 01:13 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote:
That was fascinating! Such a different path. But since you are a musician
too it shows that wee do have the capacity for both.
I'll check out the writing book. I'm sure it has been in my hands but I never
worked through it. The idea that
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