marianne kuiper milks on thu 15 dec 05
geesshh? Another language I don't shpeek? (joke)
To explain.
I am a classically trained, performing musician. I played throughout Central Europe and the United States pretty much until the early 90s. Then and now I prepare students for the college entrance exams, have taught performance practice at various universities. So you can see: my life was surrounded by music and I was immersed in it as well.
i have always had a great love for art, whether performing or visual. I spent much of my time in musea and many of my books are about art. Taught, in the classical sense? I wish! I'm working on it, though.
Why do I like Peter Voulkios? I cannot explain it, I',m sure, in terms you are looking for. I'm still at the "I think..I feel"..level.
When i saw Peter Voulkos' work, I hated it. it was rough, angry, obnoxious and i didn't see the refined spirit I though had to be behind it. i felt it was completely careless. Obnnoxious. A joke to the art world.At a gallery opening in NY I saw him. He was not drunk or anything remotely like it. He explained something to a man, and I stood back and listened. He was not bullshitting. He knew full well what he wanted to express and why.
Later on I heard him speak more publically. He was bullshitting. he put on the show people expected him to perform in.
Again, anew, I looked at what he had wrought and I respected him. Not because I necessariyl like his work, but because I felt he was honest in where his hands with clay had to be. And that is all I wish for some day, as well.
Can't find your email asking me to respond...so I'll just go on.
Rodin? I love the precision with which Rodin has studied motion, muscles, expression, place and time. A genious in technique, I believe. (that's me...you don't have to counter that because i do not have the fine art education to back that up. Not to worry) So much study he must have made of Michaelangelo. Strength and motion. But he was able to take it out of it's confinement. out of Renaissance history and bring it into the present. That requires quiet insight. he told the story of his people, in the towns that had stories to tell. His faces have such immense personality...you just have to stand and watch. Go to the Hirshhorn some day.
Picasso? Why do i like Picasso? His shapes are wild like horses. They are seen with HIS mind, with HIS comprehension of joy and total worpedness. He learned from others, from places and used shapes and col;ors to help him explode his mind onto canvas or paper.
When I was 14, i first understood, truly, the implication of what had happened to REAL people during WWII. it included my father and i was angry. I understood my loss. The first Picasso i really, conciously saw, was Guernica. In it I found the pain that was so real. Maybe that's why I love Picasso. He is real in what he says. With him I first discovered that visual artists create for themselves, not for the public. Not unless they either mus,t or are prostitutes. That is what I saw with Picasso.
That's all. Dinner time. Have to keep my husband happy, too.
Marianne
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