lela martens on thu 14 mar 02
Thank you both Elenour and Ann,
I don`t have any answer, but do have a true story.
A young woman out here on the prairies took her first class on the wheel.
Made three kind of lumpy little bowls, good for a first effort, and glazed
them in a scrap glaze. Bubbles and craters. A respected expert visited the
art centre and saw them, exclaimed over them and convinced young lady to
enter a big tea bowl competion in Japan, so she did.
Won second place! ...... Lela
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Michele Williams on thu 14 mar 02
Stuff like that kind of makes you wonder if anybody really knows what art
is, doesn't it?
Like the artist who submitted a white canvas--and won $25,000--because he
had the guts to do something nobody else had done before.
Michele Williams
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From: "lela martens"
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Subject: Guru`s gone, is it safe?
> Thank you both Elenour and Ann,
> I don`t have any answer, but do have a true story.
> A young woman out here on the prairies took her first class on the wheel.
> Made three kind of lumpy little bowls, good for a first effort, and glazed
> them in a scrap glaze. Bubbles and craters. A respected expert visited the
> art centre and saw them, exclaimed over them and convinced young lady to
> enter a big tea bowl competion in Japan, so she did.
> Won second place! ...... Lela
>
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Martin Rice on thu 14 mar 02
I just love this story!! When I started watercolor painting about 25 years
ago, I entered my first competition after all of 3 months experience. Not
only that, I couldn't ever draw, still don't, but I had discovered
wet-in-wet watercolor technique and loved it...all suggestion and hint and
atmosphere, color and compositon -- no drawing required.
Anyway, I entered a painting that could, using watercolor terms, be
described like the "lumpy little bowls" you talk about below. The judge was
a senior member of the art faculty at a large university. I won first
prize!! What a mix of emotions. Unbelievable excitement ... hadn't been so
thrilled since I was a child at Christmas, and a nagging thought in the back
of my head, "what could this possibly mean, how could this possibly happen,
I don't want to know what the implications are here."
Anyway, I got over it and just kept painting (as a hobbiest, not a
professional -- didn't have to earn my living that way) for the next 25
years. Learned a lot about aesthetics over that period and realized that
maybe the difference I was wondering about had to do with the fact that
"someone who's really good" can frequently create satisfying aesthetic
experiences. Others tend to luck out now and then. Makes no difference if
you're really in it for the journey and don't care about the destination.
Martin
Lagunas de Barú, Costa Rica
www.rice-family.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "lela martens"
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:54 PM
Subject: [CLAYART] Guru`s gone, is it safe?
> Thank you both Elenour and Ann,
> I don`t have any answer, but do have a true story.
> A young woman out here on the prairies took her first class on the wheel.
> Made three kind of lumpy little bowls, good for a first effort, and glazed
> them in a scrap glaze. Bubbles and craters. A respected expert visited the
> art centre and saw them, exclaimed over them and convinced young lady to
> enter a big tea bowl competion in Japan, so she did.
> Won second place! ...... Lela
>
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http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
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Steve Mills on fri 15 mar 02
Which goes to show it's not what you make but how it is perceived!
Steve
Bath
UK
:-)
In message , lela martens writes
>Thank you both Elenour and Ann,
>I don`t have any answer, but do have a true story.
>A young woman out here on the prairies took her first class on the wheel.
>Made three kind of lumpy little bowls, good for a first effort, and glaze=
>d
>them in a scrap glaze. Bubbles and craters. A respected expert visited th=
>e
>art centre and saw them, exclaimed over them and convinced young lady to
>enter a big tea bowl competion in Japan, so she did.
>Won second place! ...... Lela
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.as=
>p.
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Steve Mills
Bath
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