What Is Art and How It Works
Art today is to "wow" its audience. Yet what do the artists have to say about it? Ani DiFranco had no definition (see last month's post here). Andy Warhol is largely credited with saying "Art is what you can get away with." Whether it was him who said it, or Marshall McLuhan, or which one … Continue reading In the work?
I can hear people thinking: "Seriously, Vessie? Today we have no definition of art?That's impossible, there is so much art happening, and a lot of it so good! What you are saying is simply not true." Well, for centuries and millennia there was no physics and engineering. Yet buildings and structures were built that still … Continue reading Why “definition”?
"Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define." Ani DiFranco I read this quote on the sidewalk sign of a lovely art supplies store near my place. I can relate. This lack of definition didn't … Continue reading Who needs a definition?
... is a Bulgarian proverb, but I don't believe in luck, and I think turning a page in today's calendar doesn't really amount to anything much. It does, however, find this blog with the new look I promised over a year ago. So yay for New Years! I'm thankful there are people at WordPress who … Continue reading “New Year, New Luck”
Dear reader, It's time to write again. After a year of calm on the surface and lots of turbulence underwater, I again have the desire and inspiration to think, muse and share on art, life, and visible and invisible things. I've been wanting to organize my thoughts and to find a new look for the … Continue reading Back at it!
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was the art dealer who made Cubism famous. In his book "Juan Gris - his life and work", he writes: Every plastic work of art is produced in response to the requirements of the spiritual community. (41) Later in the same chapter he writes: It remains for me to establish that this "appearance" [of the work … Continue reading Spiritual what?
Dear reader, Welcome back! Or rather thank you for welcoming me back!!! I disappeared for a very long time!!! It wasn't intentional. Life got busy again, full... many were good things, but there were also other things that caused great pressure and required most of my energy to sustain myself from under them. Pressure is … Continue reading Hello again!
Dear reader, If you remember my posts Hi! I'm back! and I'm not crazy, after all..., you would remember the main claim I'm making so far in this blog - that art is the embodiment of an existing invisible world. Now, this invisible world in not just something self-existing and independent; no, it is part of … Continue reading Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
I'm reading "Dear Theo - The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh" edited by Irving and Jean Stone. It is simply selected excerpts from Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo. It is wonderful stuff, but it makes me so despondent! There is so much sadness in his words! I've considered him one of the … Continue reading On a Personal Note 7
Hello, dear reader! Ok, I'm back. I don't know how it happened that I got lost for so long. I didn't even realize it's been almost 3 months!!! To think that I intended - and still do - to write here once a week... So, in the meantime I read quite a bit, and I … Continue reading Hi! I’m back!
