I know I've been posting mostly music lately, but I couldn't help it. This song inspires me to do many things. It's seriously one of the most sensual songs I've ever heard.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
oh I love ya, when I forget about me
Another lady I find inspiration from, Blue-era Joni Mitchell. Kind of cliche, but who can help it?
do you look for me too?
Abigail Washburn, "A Fuller Wine"
She's wonderful. Seriously, look her up if you like bluegrassy stuff, or amazing music. Or both.
coffee's cold
Boy have I let the blog go this week. Sorry blog!
By the way, I just ate four chocolate covered fortune cookies. In case anyone was wondering.
Downtown's Daughter by Rebecca Mead
This is an article about Lena Dunham, an up and coming film maker most recently lauded for her film Tiny Furniture. I've actually already read a zillion articles about her, and she seems awesome! The New Yorker article is a bit of a biography, covering her precocious attitudes as a child to her antics and films in college. She's making a new HBO show, which I'm sure will be absolutely fabulous!
Dunham makes me slightly jealous, excited, and nervous about the fact that our real lives are about to start and we need to focus on our end goal as art-majors. How cool would it be if we were all known artists by the end of our college careers?
Between the Lines by Peter Schjdeldahl
A review of MoMA's exhibit about drawing in the 20th Century, Schjeldahl (um, spelling) discusses the various pieces that were on display for this show. The artists are taking the essential line-drawing and bringing the concept to greater depths (or shallows...hmm) in various mediums, including pencil, paint, and sculpture.
Is anyone else listening to the wind? Is anyone else reading everyone's blogs? Is anyone posting anything different from everyone else?
Louise Bourgeois from interview
Bourgeois, in these snippets, is explaining her views on various aspects of art. She views art as a privilege, something she owes to the world because she was given this privilege without asking. She also sniffs at Art Historians for their need to feel better than the artist, or at least relate modern art to art of previous generations, which to B is impossible. To her, modern art is about humanity and self expression, and satisfies this basic human need to be recognized.
I don't agree. Mostly.
Did you know she only died last year? She was 98 years old. What a life!
The wind is trying to break me...
Paul Cezanne, Letters
I had trouble concentrating on this one, which is strange because Cezanne is a huge inspiration for me and always, at least, interesting. I blame the wind. However, this quote stood out to me: "The man of letters expresses himself in abstractions, whereas a painter, by means of drawing and color, gives concrete form to his sensations and perceptions." Photography, too. How wonderful and frustrating is art? Even Cezanne shows here his eternal battle to capture his perceptions.
Perhaps I'll respond to the others tomorrow. I cannot even begin to think of finishing the Criticizing Art reading. I started it today and fell asleep, went and got coffee so I could finish, and then forgot and started something else. This is my life.
By the way, I just ate four chocolate covered fortune cookies. In case anyone was wondering.
Downtown's Daughter by Rebecca Mead
This is an article about Lena Dunham, an up and coming film maker most recently lauded for her film Tiny Furniture. I've actually already read a zillion articles about her, and she seems awesome! The New Yorker article is a bit of a biography, covering her precocious attitudes as a child to her antics and films in college. She's making a new HBO show, which I'm sure will be absolutely fabulous!
Dunham makes me slightly jealous, excited, and nervous about the fact that our real lives are about to start and we need to focus on our end goal as art-majors. How cool would it be if we were all known artists by the end of our college careers?
Between the Lines by Peter Schjdeldahl
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| Giuseppe Pinone, Propagazione. Ripples. One of the most lovely concepts |
Is anyone else listening to the wind? Is anyone else reading everyone's blogs? Is anyone posting anything different from everyone else?
Louise Bourgeois from interview
I don't agree. Mostly.
Did you know she only died last year? She was 98 years old. What a life!
The wind is trying to break me...
Paul Cezanne, Letters
I had trouble concentrating on this one, which is strange because Cezanne is a huge inspiration for me and always, at least, interesting. I blame the wind. However, this quote stood out to me: "The man of letters expresses himself in abstractions, whereas a painter, by means of drawing and color, gives concrete form to his sensations and perceptions." Photography, too. How wonderful and frustrating is art? Even Cezanne shows here his eternal battle to capture his perceptions.
Perhaps I'll respond to the others tomorrow. I cannot even begin to think of finishing the Criticizing Art reading. I started it today and fell asleep, went and got coffee so I could finish, and then forgot and started something else. This is my life.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Readings and Musings
I waited till the last minute again..ugh
The Blue of Distance by Rebecca Solnit
I cheesily made the font blue.
In this article, Rebecca Solnit is exploring the concept of distance, and the (I think) romantic notions that come with it. She writes about how artists discovered that the color blue conveys distance in a painting, and if one looks at a horizon full of mountains, one will see that there is a bluish hue among the farthest ones. She also thinks about the more abstract feelings of distance, and the difference between adults and children.
This may be the reason that to us blue is melancholy--it is represented in nature as something unreachable and fleeting.
I would not liked to have been around Max Beckmann when he wrote this...bad mood alert! This piece mostly makes me wonder whether the art world has changed at all since he wrote this. My intuition says no, nothing has changed, and it never will. Society really does view art as an elastic good, something they can substitute for a vacation or a car, something that will always be here and something that no one really needs, just wants. It makes me scream--the world without art would be desolate and anti-intellectual, why cannot the public see this? Everyone takes everything for granted.
Tradition and Identity by David Smith
David Smith came from the wide-eyed perspective of a small town that viewed art as something distant (and elastic..grr). When he explored art he realized that it's not so glamorous as it seems, it is dirty, rough, messy, no rules, no expectations. Art doesn't come from method and tradition, it comes from somewhere inside you.
Ok, I find this kind of pretentious! He seems to make art even more distant for those who can't naturally understand. This sort of thing really depends on the individual artist--if an artist uses traditional materials, does it make him/her less of an artist? I don't think so. Some people are more methodical than others. And using good materials creates lasting art. Paintings by people like Whistler who used whatever mixture of pigment/oil he wanted are starting to crumble and rot because of poor craftsmanship. Not that I'm a perfect example of a methodical person, but seriously. Not everyone is like you.
The Blue of Distance by Rebecca Solnit
I cheesily made the font blue.
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| Monet, master of color, did it too. |
This may be the reason that to us blue is melancholy--it is represented in nature as something unreachable and fleeting.
A Painter's Wisdom by Max Beckmann
I would not liked to have been around Max Beckmann when he wrote this...bad mood alert! This piece mostly makes me wonder whether the art world has changed at all since he wrote this. My intuition says no, nothing has changed, and it never will. Society really does view art as an elastic good, something they can substitute for a vacation or a car, something that will always be here and something that no one really needs, just wants. It makes me scream--the world without art would be desolate and anti-intellectual, why cannot the public see this? Everyone takes everything for granted.
Tradition and Identity by David Smith
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| I like Whistler |
Ok, I find this kind of pretentious! He seems to make art even more distant for those who can't naturally understand. This sort of thing really depends on the individual artist--if an artist uses traditional materials, does it make him/her less of an artist? I don't think so. Some people are more methodical than others. And using good materials creates lasting art. Paintings by people like Whistler who used whatever mixture of pigment/oil he wanted are starting to crumble and rot because of poor craftsmanship. Not that I'm a perfect example of a methodical person, but seriously. Not everyone is like you.
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