Subject: Does politics paint the painting, or is it the work of the artist?
| Posted By: imperium
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| Posted On: 9/24/2003 6:28 AM
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How much of our individual perspectives about the worth of individual artists is determined by their ideologies?
I think its easier to stretch canvas than the human mind.
I wonder how well a book about The Etymology of Forbidden Words would sell.
One says, bewildered: "Forbidden words? Why, no such thing exists in a true democracy."
Who would want to labor to produce such a book? Not I, for sure. I thought about it and read "The Professor and the Madman" and decided the subject was much to tedious and flat, since writing requires using words to heighten perspective. I have given up on words.
I am sinking deeper and deeper into tubes of paint and canvases. I dream of having huge canvases and tubs instead of tubes, and I would love to just stick my hands in and go crazy.................
Painting makes me want to get in bed and cover my head but i get a five minute buzz briefly when the thing is done. I enjoy it, afterward, once it gives me back to myself. While its going on, I wonder what the hell is going on.
Last night, I saw "Surviving Picasso" and was amazed by the job done by Hopkins as Picasso. I seemed to gain something out of it, something profound and new to me. I remembered the many museums and the years looking at things, always looking, looking, looking (thank God for eyes to see).
I just don't like to draw, I like to paint. drawing is boring to me but i like to use paint to create the illusions of depth and so on.
i have started sketching and am learning to do better hands and feet, noses, and ears.
Picasso, or the movie, anyhow, said the painting takes over and changes, and i was glad to hear it. it seems that way to me.
i am trying to learn to release the painting so it can become instead of holding it to a standard where it is constricted.
Have a good hope for me, please, that I might get it. That I might learn how to let it grow...
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