Category: Art Blog
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Never Ending Nature
Do artists see nature differently than other people? Do artists seek to replicate nature, enhance it or just see something others don’t? Paintings more often than not have a life that is different from what one might see with the naked eye. When artists choose nature as subject, nature changes, becomes something more. Whether landscape,…
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The Place of the Singing Heart
]The late Steve Jobs is much in the news these days with the movie about his life recently released. There is no doubt that Steve Jobs changed our world. Whatever people may think of Jobs, the person, what he did for all our lives is now unquestionable history. Carmine Gallo wrote an excellent article in…
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Shady Grays
The autumn addition of a home décor catalog arrived last week. Flipping through the pages revealed the new product lines to be in pale grayed down colors. The bold headlines proclaimed color as the topic of each product line but the photographs portrayed a totally different scenario. Linens were in dusky grayish blues and greens…
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Seeing is believing!
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” –Edgar Degas (1834-1917) The role of many artists is to bring to life for others the subjects that move the artist. In the bringing to life of the subject, the artist sees things others frequently miss. The artist seeks to portray those…
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To Muse or Not to Muse
Opinions on whom and what is a muse abound. There are differing opinions on the origins of muse, though all accounts attribute the muse to the ancient Greeks. Some accounts say the muses are the nine daughters of Zeus. Others say the muses are the three daughters of Apollo. All accounts state the muse is…
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A Catfish Among the Mackerel
The movie Catfish brought that word as a descriptive into the general language where it has found a place in the Urban Dictionary. IMDb quotes the character, Vince Pierce from the movie as he describes the term: “Vince Pierce: They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China. They’d keep them in…
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Energy…Magnetism…What??
What makes people want to spend millions to acquire particular paintings or stand in line for hours to see a museum exhibition of art? We have likely read many different accounts on the subject from art historians, curators and critics. But do they really answer the question? Descriptions of paint applications, color combinations, subject matter,…
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The “Life” of a Painting
While shopping for a night stand recently, I visited several popular chain home decor stores. In each store, I took the time to check out the art being sold to a mass shopping public. Each store had some nice pieces that would look pleasant in any home or office. When builders set up model…
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The Courage to Paint
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” Georgia O’Keeffe Was O’Keeffe right? Does art take courage? Painting takes time, effort and energy. But is courage behind the time, effort and energy? Courage is perhaps the necessary force for getting art out of the studio and into the public domain. Is it…
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A Place of Enchantment
“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of Cross Creek and The Yearling Do we, as artists, require a place of enchantment? Can we create without a place of enchantment? Do we have to physically be at that place…