January 2010
Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950
Jackson Pollock
1950 (350 Kb); Oil on canvas, Oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas; 221 x 300 cm (7 ft 3 in x 9 ft 10 in); National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Pollock was the first “all-over” painter, pouring paint rather than using brushes and a palette, and abandoning all conventions of a central motif. He danced in semi-ecstasy over...
forcing certain emotions from yourself is no easy task.
“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. “ — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.” — J.D. Salinger
“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”VASHTEN
J. D. Salinger
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.”Stola
J. D. Salinger
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It is essential for the understanding of Action painting to place it in historical context. A product of the post-World War II artistic resurgence of expressionism in America and more specifically New York City. Action painting developed in an era where quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis were beginning to flourish and were changing peoples perception of the physical and psychological world; and...
As he stated in Concerning the Spiritual In Art (see below), Kandinsky felt that an authentic artist creating art from “an internal necessity” inhabits the tip of an upward moving triangle. This progressing triangle is penetrating and proceeding into tomorrow. Accordingly, what was odd or inconceivable yesterday is commonplace today; what is avant garde today (and understood only by...
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
- Lucian Freud
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
- John A. Locke
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. (Mark Twain)
When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe. (Henri Matisse)
“I’m not like a car, you can’t just fix me.”
oh my god is it tomorrow night yet?
