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Thursday Mar 20, 2003
See Me, Read Me, Feel Me
Everyone sees and feels in a unique way; that痴 why no two people are precisely the same. If you see or feel something in a work of art ... it is there! Just as we need to learn how to read the written word, the spectator must have a desire to understand the language of art, and the alphabet of a particular artist.
Read more from Art of the Covenant in my Artist’s Statement inside the main site gallery.
Wednesday Mar 05, 2003
But is it Art?
It was late afternoon.
I was living in Sausalito on a houseboat葉hree bedrooms, two baths, and three levels. My girlfriend, a saucy dish who looked like a brunette Marilyn Monroe, had met a doctor who was also an art collector and author.
The three of us were on our way to Stinson Beach, about twenty miles from San Francisco and on the west side of the Marin Peninsula. As the doctor drove us in his Mercedes, Mt. Tamalpais rose up reassuringly off in the distance.
Tuesday Mar 04, 2003
Jung at Art
Picasso. In: Jung C., Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 15. Princeton University Press, 1966. 160 p. (p. 135-141).
For more on Jung, visit Questia 葉he online library for research.
Art from the unconscious did not go unnoticed by Carl Jung:
The psychology, not the esthetics, of Picasso’s art is discussed. By viewing his art as a pictorial representation of psychic processes, analogies may be drawn between Picasso’s work and the art done by mental patients. Both these are forms of nonobjective art that draws its contents from the unconscious.
Tuesday Feb 25, 2003
Where is your Attention?
I ran into an artist at my local Starbucks last night. He invited me to join him and two other artists to exhibit in a show. We agreed to discuss the details later.
“What are you trying to say in your art?” he asked.
Thursday Jan 23, 2003
Inside Outside Art
The label “outsider art” continues to be bandied about as is “fine art"葉wo unfortunate terms for original work.
British art historian Roger Cardinal first used “outsider art” in 1972 to describe French artist Jean Dubuffet’s collection of art brut (or “raw art"). Starting in the 1940’s, Dubuffet visited asylums in Switzerland and collected artwork by the patients that he encountered. Dubuffet was convinced art brut resided unfettered within the works of children, criminals, and madmen. He felt, for the most part, that such work was immune from being tainted by the popular culture. Dubuffet’s own childlike artwork speaks clearly about art and the source of originality.
Does one have to be in a mental institution to produce honest work? Of course, this is nonsense.
It is also true that art from the heart and soul heals.
