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“Creativity is the art of combining a little idea with another idea, with another little idea, and so on…at the end maybe a great idea will come.” Serge Bloch My NYC art experience, I wrote about in the last blog had a more negative effect on me than just making me sad and angry. For…
Read detailsI recently had an experience, that at first left me with a sad and isolated feeling. I then went on to have many internal conversations with myself about the state of art, its roll in society, and society in general. My son lives in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, a hot bed of art galleries…
Read details“Painting is special, separate, a matter of meditation and contemplation”. Ad Reinhardt People love to use terms to suit their needs. I just wish people would stop using the handle “intuitive painting” so loosely. I know I am treading on dangerous territory with this topic. But it keeps coming up, so I am going to…
Read details“Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line, adds strength and takes none away…Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer, that is composition.” Robert Henri The second question I received regarding “Starting a Painting” was regarding famous artists. …
Read details“The word composition moved me spiritually, and I later made it my aim in life to paint a ‘composition’ . It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe” Wassily Kandinsky I…
Read details“To prepare one’s work is first to nourish one’s feelings by studies which have a certain analogy with the picture, and it is through this that the choice of elements can be made. It is these studies which permit the painter to free his unconscious mind.” Henri Matisse There are many ways to start a…
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