Tag: Visual Arts
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Colorful Fridays–Shady Green
“Like emotions, colours are a reflection of life.” – Janice Glennaway (from Irene Osborne) Most greens fall into the yellow spectrum following the colors of leaves, grass and other growing things of the natural world. These greens usually produce a nice mud color if mixed with red. The discovery of Viridian green changed that, creating…
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Gallery Medicine
“Art galleries should be apothecaries of our deeper self.” Alain de Botton A growing body of research is revealing what artists have long known. There is healing in art. As more research is conducted more will be known. Medical and nursing schools are beginning to incorporate more arts in curriculum. Even though artists know of…
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Panic Aversion
“The object isn’t to make art, but to be in that wonderful state that makes art inevitable.”-Robert Henri (from Skinnyartist) The search for inspiration can be a never- ending battle. Nothing is working. The feeling can range from confusion to panic. What if you never get your inspiration back? Where do you turn? Listening to what…
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The Stillness of Action
“All true artists , whether they know it or not, create from a place of no mind, of inner stillness.” Eckhart Tolle (from artquotes.net) What is stillness? Is it a physical place or an inner place? Do we need to go to a place of stillness to paint? Stillness for every artist is likely different. What…
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Waiting for Lightening
You can’t wait for inspiration. Sometimes you have to go after it with a club.” ~ Jack London (from Skinnyartist.com) Do you have those days where you are just unable to get started? The motivation just isn’t there. Or maybe you stand in front of a blank canvas and can’t pick up the brush. You…
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Ambiguity
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Andy Warhol (from Artpromotivate) Do artists want an “anything goes” Art World where anyone can call anything art and put it up for display? Does that forward the cause of Art? While at dinner with several friends this topic came up. One friend is…
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Envisioning Leadership
“Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there,” John P. Kotter (The Painter’s Keys) Where is the next great art movement? Are artists today struggling through a crisis of ideas or is it art in general? Are artists mimicking other artists or variations of other movements? Is painting dead,…
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Cloudy Thinking
“The arts have an extraordinary ability to enhance our lives, to help us heal, and to bring comfort in times of great stress.”–Dana Gioia, NEA Chairman, 2003, (from Creativity in Healthcare.com) How would you like to sit before a painting of what looks like bleeding clouds while waiting to have medical tests? My friend, Sue,…