why art? posts & ideas

talent

Does the ability to paint come from talent, education, awareness?  Is creativity an ‘in-born’ talent. Is it a state of mind? So many times I’ve heard someone say (about a piece of art), “I could never do that. I don’t know how to paint. I’m not creative”, and I think, “I don’t believe that, not for a […]

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the creative machine

The Creative Machine Despite an ongoing societal love affair with creativity and ‘creative inspiration’, much of the act (the process) of making art in our consumer world has become comparable to snowmaking in the arctic. By which I mean, isn’t there enough genuine, unique, thoughtfully created art in the world (as there is snow, in the arctic) […]

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everyday art

In his satirical essay, “The Agony of the Artist (with a capital A)“, E.E. Cummings said,  “Most people …accept [the] agony of the Artist, as they accept evolution. The rest move their minds to the extent of supposing that anybody with Art school training, plus ‘temperament’- or a flair for agony- may become an Artist. […]

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beyond repair

Sometimes a painting is so awful it’s beyond repair. I spent the morning studying a phone; an old-type phone, pink, pretty- interesting. I studied, sketched, re-sketched painted and repainted. Detail, highlight, shadow, shape; I was getting to know this phone and yet (ugh) – everything went to pieces (torn to shreds) and into the garbage. […]

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destroy it

Have you seen Season 3 of House of Cards? (don’t worry- no big spoilers here). On Episode 6, as Claire and Francis race through the chaos of their Washington lives, the White House hosts, in its public space, the activity of four buddhist monks. Over the course of the show, the monks create an extraordinary […]

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