Gayle Bair on thu 31 mar 05
I think this posting was one that got sent to cyber heaven.
I thought it worth sending again. It was a response to Mel's posting
(See in part below my posting).
Mel,
That is why I switched in my junior year (1966)
from painting to printmaking. Since I didn't
use the colors squeezed directly from the tube
consequently not painting just like the colossal ego
painting instructor I knew I was doomed to continue
in that major. The one instructor who gave a rat's ass
about actually teaching was continually slighted, ostracized,
treated like a second class citizen and I couldn't get back into any
of his classes. The politics in that department were obscene!
The talent free "painters" who did well schmoozed the instructor with art
speak and complementary copies of his work. They were his darlings. One
admitted to me he gained acceptance to college with someone else's
portfolio. I was so pissed I went looking for a department free of politics
and actually found one....printmaking. This guy (Jerome
Kaplan) taught us basics then left us alone.
So I didn't get a BFA in what I had been doing all my young life and that
didn't bother me at all! Actually it freed me up but it took several years
to work through the bad experience.... though I admit I still harbor
resentment regarding how Karl Sherman was treated.
I still paint, draw and my clay work definitely reflects my printmaking
experience. I came to clay with a lot of art background which has made up in
part for starting in clay so late in life.
Karl taught us basics... like how to see. The rest was up to us. He was
the best and I am forever grateful to him! The other teachers.... ha...
I can't even remember their names!
Wow I just did a search and it seems the only reference to Carl was from a
previous student who does clay.... see
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/art/Gallery/04-05johnson.php
I probably went to school with this guy! Seems he has connections to the
Clay studio on Phila .... I'll have to see if I can contact him.
Ok enough rant.....but you started it Mel!!!
say goodnight Lucy.........
Gayle Bair
-----Original Message-----
From: mel Jacobson
lest anyone think that my life
is all tied up in `craft`.
sorry, not the case.
i have been doing artwork my entire life.
there have been years when more time has
been spent painting than making pots.
i had a grad student at the university of minnesota
ask me one day/ `do you mix all of your own colors?i have never seen that blue/green color you make.`
i squirted some blue, some green, some white and
a touch of black in a cup...stirred.
`there, amazing huh?`
should have hit him with the 2x4.
mel
and that is what i am talking about.
ideas with no skill to hang them with.
blue green and white. what a complex thought.
mel jacobson/minnetonka/minnesota/usa
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