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THE ART THAT IS OURS
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By:
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picassostar
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Mood:
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happy
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Date:
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08/27/2009 20:10:16
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Music:
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None
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I suspect that all artists who paint – those who paint for money, those who paint for pleasure, and those who fall somewhere in between – harbor a secret ambition of one day seeing their works on the walls of big time galleries and museums (Well, maybe not all of us), as if perhaps we could thereby add a mite to our immortality.
That, if anything doesn't explain the “why” of my work. I paint because I want to, and I do so at the urging of many people, my wife, my website acquaintances, and an old curmudgeon artist in Indiana.
And while my work is a long way from the high-brow, glittering art scene that I would have personally enjoyed – and a long, loooong shot from the work that carried my dreams a long time ago when I was capable of things truly great – I am just as proud of my work as I can be, because I created it.
But when you run across any artistic errors in my work (and there are many), then please blame me because I missed my dream of going to art school – and I kept trying to educate myself as I went along, which really is a lot more fun than going to school. I keep telling myself that, but my inner critic insistently quibbles and carps over my use of color and texture and other similar mysteries.
As for the genre of art I do? I don’t know. I call it abstract, but I want to do something spontaneous, don’t you see, something that would grab the art world’s attention – something, in short, that would make me a wealthy and admired artist (laughing)
I considered for awhile calling my work “The Art of Synchromophonia” because I was interested visual interpretation of music, or something that would make sense – just enough to make people think I was a heavy thinking artist like Pollack or Picasso. (Laughing again), but just cool enough to make people want to buy my work. (Still laughing). I think they call such thoughts in the art world “marketing.”
I finally decided, out of agony and desperation, to simply call my work "mine". That’s what my art work is, it is me.
Finally, let me say I naturally want you to enjoy my art, for that would be payment of the very headiest kind. But more than simply enjoying it, I hope it inspires you to create things that are entirely you.
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