mel jacobson on thu 20 may 10
i do believe that most totalitarian governments
want to destroy artists. we do think with the big
picture, see things with clarity.
and, it is `seeing`...brain washing does not work very
well with artists. we are not sheep.
it may be our greatest quality.
and, we have to remain so. diligent
at every turn. it can happen here too.
independent thinking, strong sense of self
and the ability to be exceptional.
that is the artist.
we are not always popular. `god those artists are weird.`
(but, that is from the mouth of our aunt charlotte who never left
hennepin county in her life.)
or, the little old lady in ely, mn. standing on the step of the
greyhound bus in her big coat and babushka, waving at her entire
family saying..`good bye america, i go to duluth*`. ( i asked her son
what was going on, he said `first time in her life out of ely, she has
to go to the duluth clinic for tests and xrays.) she more than likely
lived to be 110 years old.
mel
* she said merca and talute. you had to know the language.
like the guy in a hole in front of our house...he said to me:
`yous, pass me down a link". i had not idea..his buddy said:
`hea canno speaka da english...he wanta blanka."
that would be plank.
life is all about the translation.
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
new book: http://www.21stcenturykilns.com
alternate: melpots7575@gmail.com
Lis Allison on thu 20 may 10
On May 20, 2010, you wrote:
> we do think with the big picture, see things with clarity.
> and, it is `seeing`...brain washing does not work very
> well with artists. we are not sheep.
>
> it may be our greatest quality.
> independent thinking, strong sense of self
> and the ability to be exceptional.
> that is the artist.
>
> we are not always popular.
Mel, if you were here I would hug you and kiss you and thank you with
tears in my eyes.... my whole life I have struggled with this. I am so
often not liked because I, at least sometimes, really do see things more
clearly than others. Time and again I am proved right.... but it doesn't
make me more liked, or make my life any easier.
I think we creatives tend to see things in context more than most people.
We don't just see a red (nice red!), we see the red in the painting (too
red, ooops). We don't march to a different drummer so much as we hear the
whole band.
Lis
--
Elisabeth Allison
Pine Ridge Studio
www.Pine-Ridge-Studio.blogspot.com
jeanette harris on thu 20 may 10
Da Mayor said,
>independent thinking, strong sense of self
>and the ability to be exceptional.
>that is the artist.
Coming back from D.C. on a flight last week, I had an interesting
conversation with a woman from Dallas. The conversation is one I
want to write more about later on in my blog because it started with
a question from her about art being 'very therapeutic.'
That kind of thing makes me cringe inwardly. The whole creative
process is something I think about a lot. Trying to get someone who
doesn't understand it to then Understand it, well, it's a long row to
hoe. However, during the hours of the flight, I tried.
Later I touched on it lightly in the blog because I really wanted to
talk about the great time I had in the Rothko room at the Phillips
Collection located near Dupont Circle in the Georgetown section of
D.C. I included two examples of works.
http://www.jeanetteharrisblog.blogspot.com.
*********
"I'm always interested in talking to people who do not make art as to
their perception of people who do make art. A lot of times, it is a
completely romanticized idea of this free-spirit, floating (rather
dippy) existence just filled with delight.
We who do it know that's bogus. The only time I get a floating
feeling is when something that I've struggled for actually Works."
'Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting,
it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the
misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars. '
- Mark Rothko, In Art/Painting
Oh, I wish!
The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. has a room full of Rothkos.
They nearly hum on the walls. They're like chords of music, notes
transformed to pigment.
If you rejoice in color, you will love just sitting in the lowered
light in the center of the room, letting your eyes travel along the
borders and pools of pure, delicious color.
The next time I glaze, I'm going to think of Rothko.
*********
I'll write more later in the blog about the whole conversation. It
will take a much longer entry or two to cover it. In the meantime, I
loved the quote.
--
Jeanette Harris in Poulsbo WA
http://www.jeanetteharrisblog.blogspot.com
http://www.sa-clayartists.org go to Members, H heading
http://www.washingtonpotters.org/WPA_Gallery.htm
Ted Fussell on fri 21 may 10
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Had to chuckle as I sit here figuring out how to pay for my daughter's
upcoming college expenses. Her major will be Art Therapy.
Ted Fussell
Aiken, SC
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Subject: Re: artists as thinkers
> Coming back from D.C. on a flight last week, I had an interesting
> conversation with a woman from Dallas. The conversation is one I
> want to write more about later on in my blog because it started with
> a question from her about art being 'very therapeutic.'
>
> http://www.jeanetteharrisblog.blogspot.com.
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> Jeanette Harris in Poulsbo WA
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