tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167350.post8451563696318312718..comments2023-10-31T05:37:45.410-07:00Comments on Hungry Hyaena: Originality and (Re)cognitionHungry Hyaenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354349850246750046noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167350.post-5318541648520547662010-02-19T10:41:33.046-08:002010-02-19T10:41:33.046-08:00Drawing is mental, it can be traced and studied an...Drawing is mental, it can be traced and studied and learned analytically. Structure is the motion and layered relationsips of life, color its passion. They cannot be learned in this way. But as long as one is studying, and using them as such, etudes, its great. Its what I do when life drawing, or drawing from nature, flowers, plants, objects of man. They are not fully formed works of art, but one essential layer. The example above also has composition and stylization to reveal nature through equivalence, using natures vocabulary. <br /><br />There are many other ways, but it is essential, and a master like above can stand on their own. As did Da Vinci's drawings, which are incredible, though I find his paintings grossly overrated. Color he never understood, he found balance in structure, but not a living force within it. Everything he did actualy failed, none of his inventions worked, his paintings falling apart like the Last Supper, or color fading like the Mona Lisa almost immediately. His work is almost purely intellectual, thinking man can master the world. He cant, this Michelangelo understood, and his power likewise multiplied. <br /><br />All three are necesary to a fully developed work, layering and intertwining into a livng force its own energy, its own presence. Which should be every artists goal, to create after The Creator, humbly, attempting to allow our works, when taken out into the world, to stand up with the power of the original. Only then, when before the nature of gods creation, and my manmade work, can I find if I have succeeded. Or if more work needs to be done. Cezanne knew this, all great artists do. It is the way to creative fulfillment. Have i enhanced life, or my own ego. That answer is not ours to make, but for those who view our works, and those that last have met this challanege, and won. <br /><br />art collegia delenda estDonald Frazellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438703089946598999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167350.post-70757734701848311632010-02-19T10:40:35.684-08:002010-02-19T10:40:35.684-08:00I havent heard of much studying older masters of t...I havent heard of much studying older masters of their craft in art school, let alone copying them. Few can draw anymore, those who do learn so on their own, the only way, as Cezanne said, "The Louvre is our textbook." Ideas have overcome craftsmanship, even though those very ideas are completely derivative, simply taking fewer and fewer facets of works that succeed. Instead of simplifying, they sub-minimalize to "appear" as original. When simply but one layer of what always has been. And as art is about relationships, once you take all those other layers away, it no longer is art. No life, no energy, no passion.<br /><br />All this copying and surrounding oneself with great works of the past of all different styles, of different parts of the world, of different ages, simply forms that most fundamental of art neccessities, the automatic shit detector. When one is around only the best, only the best will do, in ones own work, and in life. It is developed instinct. We can put it into words and analyze, but life is short. We need to instantly recognize what works and what doesnt, and move on. Creating our own as a reflection of life, not dictating to others our view of it. <br /><br />The first thing i did when I switched to painting from years of photography, where i studied the Weston's and did similar work till I created my own way of approaching and understanding nature to reveal gods design, I copied Matisse Dance with Nasturtiums, for color, Michelangelos God Creating the Sun and Moon, and Cezanne's Mt St Victoire seen from Bibemus Quarry. Color, line and structure. Harmony, melody and rhythm. Soul, mind and body.<br /><br />However none were traced, i needed to let my own hand do what others had done. To understand how and why, as truthfully as possible. Not free interpretations, but apprenticing to a master. Adapting to what is, what works, veritas, not attempting to adapt life to ones own immature desires, as contemporary art has. Self expression is for children, slowly studying and learning and most importantly, feeling humanity, nature and god the key to developing ones own langauges, and even more importantly having something to say as but one single, solitary human being among billions.Donald Frazellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438703089946598999noreply@blogger.com