Genius Art
Artists work diligently at their craft, calling forth years of experience and drawing deep into a grab bag of tricks and techniques, applying every particle of their being and pouring the very essence of themselves into a project to produce something which they may judge grudgingly as “not bad”....
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Mary Cassat. Anyone reading this article knows that Mary Cassat was a famous American impressionist artist of the mid nineteenth century. She was contemporary and acquaintance of so many well known French impressionist artists: Monet, Manet, Corot, Degas, Pissarro, Boudin, Cezanne, Courbet, Matisse, Renoir, Sisley and on and on. We...
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Food. Clothing. Shelter. The three essentials to sustain human life.
Compassion. Empathy. Sacrifice. The three essentials to sustain human society.
The former is utilitarian, pragmatic, imminent. The latter is sustaining, foundational, farsighted.
Humans are social animals. We need one another. Because of our big brains (apologies to Kurt Vonnegut) we are born as...
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Food. Clothing. Shelter. The three essentials to sustain human life.
Compassion. Empathy. Sacrifice. The three essentials to sustain human society.
The former is utilitarian, pragmatic, imminent. The latter is sustaining, foundational, farsighted.
Humans are social animals. We need one another. Because of our big brains (apologies to Kurt Vonnegut) we are born as...
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By what criteria do we determine who is an artist? We learn from art history that in the days of apprenticeships paired to craftsmen, an artist was one who spent years learning the craft from a master, and this craft was solidly defined. It was a discipline built upon generations...
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As I developed with oils, it became obvious that I was constrained by the studio. Working from a digital image and memory and imagination does not capture mood. The perspective is distorted by the lens. The memory and imagination lose detail. The colors are invented. Talking to an artist I...
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The newest addition to our growing family was born this fall. I was sent a picture of the little bundle on his birth day. It gave me pause. Such a look of wonderment and innocence was captured in his expression! I did a detailed pencil sketch, recomposing the picture and...
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The human eye, in coordination with the human mind, seeks to make sense of the patterns seen. This explains the fascination of a rock formation that perhaps resembles the profile of Abraham Lincoln, or the profile of an island on the horizon that resembles a reclining woman, or why we...
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