Perfection
Discussion
http://www.rondenartgallery.com/simandle/simandle.html
Any comments on the quote and the artist?
Everywhere I have asked, I have been told to avoid detail,
to simplify, even to the point of making just one view for the
eye, with nothing left after the first glance. Instinct tells me to
ignore this completely. I am not trying to say a photgraphic
likeness is my aim [hardly, with my level of attainment], just
that I have seen just about too many impressionist and
modernist paintings which have their soul missing.
The above artist, a very successful one, could easily do better.
I wonder if a professional artist who paints for a particular
audience, gets stuck into a certain production line, maximising
the profit, so to spend twice as long on a painting would require
at least twice the price, and then they would have to be sold to
a new clientele?
N.H
Chillie Benes
ne...@nharris.dotu-net.dotcom says...
>Everywhere I have asked, I have been told to avoid detail
I haven't had the opportunity to call attention
to one of my favorites - Donald Roller Wilson.
Obsession and detail are seemingly what his
work is about. And then there are those titles....
Peter H.M. Brooks
"Discussion" <ne...@nharris.dotu-net.dotcom> wrote in message
> "
>
> Everywhere I have asked, I have been told to avoid detail,
> to simplify, even to the point of making just one view for the
> eye, with nothing left after the first glance. Instinct tells me to
> ignore this completely. I am not trying to say a photgraphic
> likeness is my aim [hardly, with my level of attainment], just
> that I have seen just about too many impressionist and
> modernist paintings which have their soul missing.
>
something. Detail has to be right, as with everything, the middle path
is often the best, too much detail can produce as dead a painting as too
little.
--
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.
- Caliban, The Tempest.
Edward
>From: "Discussion" <ne...@nharris.dotu-net.dotcom>
>Subject: Perfection
>Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 15:18:15 -0000
>"Perfection is the enemy of great art"
in other words: lousy daubers are welcome, the less artistic skill - the
better (greater) art?
Probably the top of art creation will be a piece of cloth that artist uses
to wipe brushes....
>Any comments on the quote and the artist?
It's been along time when FINANCIAL success meant anything, i.e. when it
was equivalent to creative abilities, skills, mastership and profound
vision.
Bunch of nobodies who can not even mix colours properly (not to say about
laying them on canvas) took over - selling garbage for millions.
So, I'd rather not listen to dumb advices of "successful" daubers...
...crawling back into PC clipboard,
Yours,
E-dwar<f>
[try.to.write.to: ]
mdeli
common?
Most faithful believe what they are told and avoid anything that might
challenge their faith. Kosher foods and holy water in order to be seen
as genuine require that some holy wearing a funny hat mumbles a verbal
blessing over the stuff. If you ask the consumer what change he
believes took place, you will usually hear that the blessed stuff
gained some sort of spiritual superiority.
AE is the culmination of a half century march toward nothingness
blessed by critical Artspeak incantations of the high priests of
Modern Academic Art who don't usually wear funny hats. Only work able
to attain a steady stream of holy critical blessings is considered fit
to remain in the holiest sections of museums. Should these priests
stop muttering their blessings the stuff becomes passé and goes to the
basement to join the rest of the avant gone.
Here reside the stacks of paintings, no worse than the still holy
stuff, that have lost their holiness done by artists whose names are
practically forgotten, names which can still be found in old art
magazines if you take the trouble to look.
...no skill no art
"The Emperor's New Clothes aren't clothing you stupid little girl. They are body installations containing invisible Color Fields."
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mdeli
"He had a feel for adjectives, but few ideas. He listened to me and
gratified me with answers full of modifiers. His whole brilliance lay
in his skill as plagiarist and stager--as a jewel-setter. When all was
said and done, Picasso was a duettist. He always needed a partner:
Ingres, Delacroix, Velazquez, and others I forgot. But he was a
eunuch, a caricaturing imitator who tore down and made fun of what he
could not outdo. All he knew how to do was distort as he copied."
[Dali #257 confessions]
Picasso answered these accusations by saying, "I never do a painting
as a work of art, all of them are researches."
Imitation in art is less of a crime than it is often made out to be.
The key is not total originality but producing the finest quality
work. The artist who is least inimitable is really the most creative.
Picasso never imitated the great masters in the same way he filched
ideas from his contemporaries. He was utterly incapable of painting
even an imitation of a great work. He merely caricatured them and very
poorly at that. What he really produced in his imitation paintings
were cock-eyed schmiers, coarsely painted on top of projected images
of his favorite old masters, over which he added, here and there, his
personal style of crude caricature.
Critics would do well to remember that the artist who is the very
first to create a work that almost anyone can copy or imitate is only
a poor artist who once had a novel idea.
Ridama
suggest the handling.Ignore some advice,or weigh it carefully.What works for
some may not for you.Make your work personal,listen to experience,but you'll be
happier in the end if you are comfortable with your natural style.However being
objective,you do understand that nothing looks quite as bad as overworked
detail such as trying to paint every leaf on a tree or every hair on a
head.That was God's job ours is to make an expressive comment with practiced
skills and hopefully a little heart.
Study,and do what feels right to you,listen to few.