Just couple of O'Keeffe's images from art.com
May 18, 2010
May 17, 2010
Ye, obviously, my "one post a week" commitment got screwed up. Last Monday as I was lying in bed sick I even had the beginning for the post: "Two days in bed, two books, and..." well I had never figured out how to write it without leaving the bed so no post last week. Actually I almost didn't write it today too. Since I tried to draw a little and then started to experiment and in a little bit discovered that it is time to go to bed.
Drawing felt good.
I haven't felt this kind of urge in quite sometime, I would say in years. When you just want to grab a pencil and start something and you don't know what will come out of it. Today it was a bird. I have no idea why, but I drew a first line, then a second one and then I saw a bird. This is how it usually comes to me. I very rarely, have subject in my head before I start. Because if I try to think about what I want to depict, I always imagine flowers, but if someone would look through my works they all mostly abstract shapes and silhouettes.
A long time ago I thought that flowers is a lame subject for art. Then I saw Georgia O'Keeffe and it changed my perspective to many things, among them my view of the art. On her paintings flowers have souls and it is always interested me how she was able to find those souls and depict them. Those flowers aren't that simple and there is a quite controversy around them, but when I first saw her paintings I didn't know anything about her, I just was very simply impressed. I think after this encounter my horizons expanded a little bit more, and I started to think that if the art stopped you and made you think its work is done.
How many people are saying that they don't understand abstract art and it shouldn't be called art at all, since probably a child could do it. This always amuses me. Because we are sitting and talking about it, and we are not discussing another beautiful landscape that they saw, but the abstract or bizarre art that they couldn't understand. Ok I am simplifying a bit, but I do want to go to bed soon, and try not to go into the depths here.
Anyway it was very nice to feel the pencil in my hand again. Hopefully since I dug up my art supplies it will happen more often, and I might even draw or paint a flower or two. :)
Good night.
Drawing felt good.
I haven't felt this kind of urge in quite sometime, I would say in years. When you just want to grab a pencil and start something and you don't know what will come out of it. Today it was a bird. I have no idea why, but I drew a first line, then a second one and then I saw a bird. This is how it usually comes to me. I very rarely, have subject in my head before I start. Because if I try to think about what I want to depict, I always imagine flowers, but if someone would look through my works they all mostly abstract shapes and silhouettes.
A long time ago I thought that flowers is a lame subject for art. Then I saw Georgia O'Keeffe and it changed my perspective to many things, among them my view of the art. On her paintings flowers have souls and it is always interested me how she was able to find those souls and depict them. Those flowers aren't that simple and there is a quite controversy around them, but when I first saw her paintings I didn't know anything about her, I just was very simply impressed. I think after this encounter my horizons expanded a little bit more, and I started to think that if the art stopped you and made you think its work is done.
How many people are saying that they don't understand abstract art and it shouldn't be called art at all, since probably a child could do it. This always amuses me. Because we are sitting and talking about it, and we are not discussing another beautiful landscape that they saw, but the abstract or bizarre art that they couldn't understand. Ok I am simplifying a bit, but I do want to go to bed soon, and try not to go into the depths here.
Anyway it was very nice to feel the pencil in my hand again. Hopefully since I dug up my art supplies it will happen more often, and I might even draw or paint a flower or two. :)
Good night.
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