Looks like Lady Gaga had similar ideas- she opted for 24K gold though:
Off to a great start this morning with a call from my credit card company that they suspected fraud on my major debit card. Somebody in NJ was trying to pay for child care and then for something from Napster (which I was surprised to hear is still in business!) So I went through all my recent purchases and all were taken off but still I had to go get a temporary card and wait in bank lines when I have ever so much more IMPORTANT stuff to do...
Thankfully the bank is very near the studio so I stopped in to check a few things and got involved in painting the backs of the pieces included in the Snow Whites Century book. Now I think I am ABSOLUTELY done, and I am going to stuff all the parts back in the box when the paint dries and put it into the archives waiting for some sort of book show where it will be appropriate. Any ideas?
So far so good with Feedly. I worked with it yesterday for a while and am feeling more confident on being able to seamlessly add it into the morning routine. The 'morning routine' being stealing pictures and stories that make me laugh from the unsuspecting internets!
Today on Robert Genn's newsletter, he speaks of three different methods of presenting art stories:
Story within the art: We all know of classical paintings loaded with allegory and historical events. Early European painting is largely a depiction of the Christian story and its various characters. There is still a genre here. Take a look at the 20th century painting by Arnold Friberg, Alma Baptizing at The Waters of Mormon. Taken from the story in Mosia 18, Book of Mormon, Alma was a prophet who baptized 204 believers in one day at either a lake in Guatemala or at a spot on the eastern shore of Lake Erie. Not sure which.
Eight is for Grief
Long story around the figure, the eight ravens, and the choices of fabrics. I'll spare you the details but it has to do with personal history.
Back-story: One can't look at the paintings of Vincent Van Goghwithout replaying the story we all know--"How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free. They did not listen, they did not know how," etc. (Don McLean) Then there are the fights with Gauguin, the magnificent letters to his brother, Theo, the ear-off event, the asylum at St. Remy, the field of crows, the stack of paintings nobody wanted, the early death. "Perhaps they'll listen now." (ibid.) You bet they do.
Self Portrait with Sticks
How can there not be a back-story in a self portrait? This entire piece was digitally printed from original photographs of sticks in a can, on satin which makes it seem to
glow from behind.
Non-story: In the struggle to find new meaning in the twentieth century, painters began to make paintings that told no story. Mark Rothko insisted his paintings meant nothing. Others, like Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still, felt the main stuff was process and action. For these artists, telling a story would have trivialized the art. Peggy Guggenheim swooned. No story, or a story so obscure it might never be fathomed, was the best story of all.
Sylvia's Circles
Non story- all about this quilt is the cutting and sewing with circles added for no reason other than it needed it.
Genn is right, and I do have to say it was a trial to find something in my archives that didn't have a long involved story attached! Just the way I work, apparently. (These are all from prior to 2000, old stuff.)
Good advice. I'll take it.
And here's how-
10 PM Addendum: Meant to publish this way long ago but have been out and about for hours now, just got home with this--- "Mah, it followed me home!":
I'm not wild about the black stripes on the hood but I love every other thing about it, and at my age I am fully aware that sometimes you just have to take those black stripes when the rest is exactly right- I will love them like I would love a child with a birthmark, and in about a day probably not even notice they are there. At least you'll know it's me behind you. I'll be careful, you too, k? I am auditioning names- right out of the gate a guy rolled down his window and asked me where I was going in a Yellow Submarine! My first car, I am sooo excited.
2 comments :
Well first of all I didn't realize napster was still going since they changed all my stuff to rhapsody and I don't care for them nearly as much as the original napster. Also - want to say - how dumb am I - I know all the word's to McClean's Vincent and didn't realize he was talking about the artist (but then again when I learned the words I didn't know the artist). love this post! Off the Wall is still open if you want to link up!
congrats on the new wheels!
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