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Wednesday Mar 05, 2003
But is it Art?
It was late afternoon.
I was living in Sausalito on a houseboat—three 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 —the 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.
Wednesday Feb 26, 2003
No Dharma Bum
I had come out of successful meeting with a producer in Los Angeles.
At one point in our meeting, he turned to me and uttered those immortal words: “Hey, y’know, I’m a big Hollywood producer.”
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.
Sunday Feb 23, 2003
Wake Up!
In “The Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka shocked readers with a grotesque fable about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into an insect, which dovetails with the Buddhist world view of rebirth, or transmigration of the soul.
Is this possible?
