Lee Love on fri 20 apr 07
On 4/19/07, karen gringhuis wrote:
>
> We walk a fine line between being too hard on the work
> and not hard enough. I have two peices by wonderful
> artists that I am sure they considered to have minor
> flaws - which I happily bought and treasure.
On another list Eric pointed out the writings of Rob Barnard. He writes well:
http://www.rob-barnard.com/essays/
Here is a quote from an essay he wrote about Jeff Oestrich:
John Ruskin's admonition in his famous chapter, "The Nature of Gothic"
from his book Stones of Venice in which Ruskin argued that,
"Nothing that lives is or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is
decaying, part nascent.
In all things that live there are certain irregularities and
deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty.
...to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion,
to paralyze vitality."
I highly recommend the Oestrich article. I misspoke when I said
nobody is writing about pots today. Barnard has picked up the baton:
http://www.rob-barnard.com/essays/6mak/maksix/
--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://potters.blogspot.com/
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
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