Walter Logeman Art Project 2006-7
Other peoples work I discuss and find interesting.
This was a children’s activity, and I will research it more – but I did the rubbing & now it is here but not as I said in the last post as one of the 1000 – it is here for inspiration.
Later: I went back to the gallery & asked about the origins of the work. They could not tell me but gave me the card of the person who curated it. But I have not followed up & lost the card!
Planned a collage for #233
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Had lunch with George, we talked a lot of art. He is now doing the 14 stations of the cross, abstract, acrylic. Makes sense as he is a Christian Atheist. (Which reminded me that Llew Summers has done sculptures for the Catholic Church here in Christchurch – must go and see them.)
Caught up with Edward and we jointly signed “Just as you are” and he has a great art plan on that theme, which I won’t reveal here – Edward, do it!!
Then I went to the Local Christchurch Art Gallery:
The Giacometti which I have seen, is still on but I did not go there – saw a few other things which inspired me, more on that later as I do some sketches & I’ll attribute the inspirations. AND did sketch #253, which I will post up in the next post. It is a bit of a hoot, as it is a rubbing, not a digital sketch! Not even really my work, but what are rules for?
Followed by a movie on Picasso,
Picasso: Magic, Sex and Death
Three short films in which John Richardson, Picasso’s friend and biographer, sets the record straight about one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. (156 minutes)
Interesting & inspiring, good to see so much of his work, the main thing I got from it was that he saw himself as a shaman, and his art as voodoo magic. Now there is a thought, talk about conceptual art. Its not so alien, as I figure this thing here as alchemy. First mooted in this post. In that post too is the question I live with “What does Thousand Sketches want?”
Today I heard something loud & clear from the project, a realisation… but I am keeping quiet for now. It was a private conversation.
I got some feedback today: I hope it is ok that I quote it here, it was that my work was reminiscent of:
Hockney’s sketches, Milton Avery landscapes and Alex Katz figures.
This is the second time someone has said that re Hockney – and I have been studying him avidly since, all I knew of him was the swimming pool stuff, now I have a fuller grasp. More on him some other time.
I’ve never heard of the other two, and so I have been surfin’. I’ll make this a Katz post.
An enjoyable interview from 1991 in the Journal of Contemporary Art: Interview
Another here.
I can see the similarity with some of my figures – the most recent being sketch #241 – what shall I call that style, “bucket fill”? Katz will inspire me to develop that – particularly for portraits. I like the way he can get the tones right in faces. even though there is little shading.
Some of his flat surfaces are in oils and many seem to be silkscreens & lithographs. As I reflect on these media I wonder what I will do when I can get out of this digital crucible?
Oil – printmaking of various kinds – acrylic – pastel – charcoal ?
And a pile of Alex Katz images follow:
I will be going past Ashburton on my way to Mt. Cook so I’ll call in, Wednesday or Thursday this week. Will report back (in this post).
I listened to a radio interview with Llew Summers.
Listen to the Radio interview here – MP3.
He does amazing sculptures that are all over Christchurch. Here is a quote from his website – which is inspiring because it brings in the criteria for working with the human body.
“What’s important to me is to get a balance between the physical and the spiritual in life. We’re given a soul and we’re given a body. Sculpture provides a nice balance because works can be made which are deep and meaningful, but they require your physical body to produce them. Rather than just being clever or smart the work must have soul.”
Details about the exhibition follow – and my impressions will be added about the show & the artists.
Continue reading “Llew Summers & his collection at Ashburton Art Gallery – Zeitgeist”
Here is a podcast about all of the items in the title.
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I reference the following items:
Some Blackman images follow:
Continue reading “Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, the Ern Malley Hoax and the unconscious – Podcast”
Watched a video about British abstract painter Patrick Heron
95 of his pictures can be clicked through in the Tate Online.
Made a Podcast after watching the video.
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Later: The podcast is not so much about Heron so much as about me. Not even that, it is on the theme of the value of talent / training / education / miseducation. I relate this to my psychotherapy process and I think I have an element of envy of the privilege Heron had in being recognised so early in his family.
Some of his pictures follow:
Image by David Hockney follows, Mulholland Drive – The Road to the Studio – 1980
Got inspired by this in the video, where Melvyn Bragg interviews “Hockney at the Tate” Directed by Alan Benson
I have made a podcast on this question; Here is the MP3 to download or listen to it here:
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I reference Kahn – and below is a picture of one of his unbuilt masterpieces.
There are also some allusions to sketch blogs – many are in my blogroll but I will make a post about those later.
Posting a sketch here by L Laughy from Nithwave for inspiration.
I had a walk & talk with Kate yesterday and we were musing over our projects – her horse treks & my sketches. She told me the story of Jung’s dream with the candle. I found it really useful to keep me focussed here & today has been a busy Thousand Sketches day! No sketches, but podcasts & posts and a few good emails have come & gone.
Then as luck would have it when googling for Jung’s dream I found the words accompanying a beautiful moleskine sketch, I’ll post the words and then the sketch.
“I had a dream which both frightened and encouraged me. It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment. Everything depended on my keeping the little light alive. Suddenly I had the feeling that something was coming up behind me. I looked back, and saw a gigantic black figure following me. But at the same moment I was conscious in spite of my terror, that I must keep my little light going through night and wind, regardless of the dangers. When I awoke I realized at once that the figure was my own shadow on the swirling mists, brought into being by the little light I was carrying. I knew too that this little light was my consciousness, the only light I have. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.”
From: C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
In the last post I added a podcast about doodles, and the inspirations from Len Lye. Just found a Youtube:
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