I found this really interesting and learnt a lot. Thank you! And I love your painting inspired by the Malevich.
I was very interested by your point that the resources of techniques like cubism were by no means exhausted - or even fully understood - by the early practitioners. Your remark reminds me of something TS Eliot said about past masters. From memory, he said "we know more than them and they are what we know."
Thanks for writing. By focusing in on 'visual musicality' specifically as I am doing over the next few months, I am researching and building the case for the proposal of early modernists to use the example of music - which is abstract - as a direction for abstract art after the invention of photography which caused an image crisis for painting. The question was, what do you paint if you are not painting from nature, from what is seen?
I am currently reading a book called The Music of Painting that traces this emerging trend back to Richard Wagner in the 1860's. I am still early in the book, I am not sure I want to look that far back myself but I will see where he goes with that chain of thought. I would say that musicality in art has been part of the underlying logic of painting back to at least the renaissance but not in the way that I am considering in relation to abstract art. Musicality however, is about how to control how the viewer looks at a painting much in the same way a musical composition controls how the listener's attention is managed and, by the way, how we use musicality in our speech to emphasize and organize how someone hears and understands what we say when we speak. It's a deep subject when you start thinking about it.
I'm always curious and fascinated by how and where an artist earliest inspirations come from and to actually see those influences in someone's present works. To see or realize where that earliest spark came from that 'blew someone's mind' where they felt such a pull to want to do the same or similar work. I still get that jolt of a high when I view art that I get an immediate and deep desire to own and to love. I'd pour over art books for hours studying what the artist created and read about the process, meanings/ideas/feelings they had while creating their art. That absolute need to make the art that sometimes bypasses all the conscious explanations is also intriguing to me. Just that Need.
I wrote a little article about my earliest art experiences that I remember. This article is scheduled for Nov. 6th. I have been writing a lot of articles and scheduling them. I currently have articles scheduled 3 days a week through Nov. 15.
Your discipline for such things is admirable and inspiring. Looking forward to reading them as I find that subject intriguing........I love knowing when/why/how someone has been awakened to something that really stoked them into a lifelong passion.
Nice to see your drawing and a lot of old favorites. First time we went to the Picasso museum I was thinking it was just to say we went, but we ended up going many times, and being awed by the variety and ground breaking work. And I do love Russian constructivism.
I found this really interesting and learnt a lot. Thank you! And I love your painting inspired by the Malevich.
I was very interested by your point that the resources of techniques like cubism were by no means exhausted - or even fully understood - by the early practitioners. Your remark reminds me of something TS Eliot said about past masters. From memory, he said "we know more than them and they are what we know."
Thanks for writing. By focusing in on 'visual musicality' specifically as I am doing over the next few months, I am researching and building the case for the proposal of early modernists to use the example of music - which is abstract - as a direction for abstract art after the invention of photography which caused an image crisis for painting. The question was, what do you paint if you are not painting from nature, from what is seen?
I am currently reading a book called The Music of Painting that traces this emerging trend back to Richard Wagner in the 1860's. I am still early in the book, I am not sure I want to look that far back myself but I will see where he goes with that chain of thought. I would say that musicality in art has been part of the underlying logic of painting back to at least the renaissance but not in the way that I am considering in relation to abstract art. Musicality however, is about how to control how the viewer looks at a painting much in the same way a musical composition controls how the listener's attention is managed and, by the way, how we use musicality in our speech to emphasize and organize how someone hears and understands what we say when we speak. It's a deep subject when you start thinking about it.
I'm always curious and fascinated by how and where an artist earliest inspirations come from and to actually see those influences in someone's present works. To see or realize where that earliest spark came from that 'blew someone's mind' where they felt such a pull to want to do the same or similar work. I still get that jolt of a high when I view art that I get an immediate and deep desire to own and to love. I'd pour over art books for hours studying what the artist created and read about the process, meanings/ideas/feelings they had while creating their art. That absolute need to make the art that sometimes bypasses all the conscious explanations is also intriguing to me. Just that Need.
I wrote a little article about my earliest art experiences that I remember. This article is scheduled for Nov. 6th. I have been writing a lot of articles and scheduling them. I currently have articles scheduled 3 days a week through Nov. 15.
Your discipline for such things is admirable and inspiring. Looking forward to reading them as I find that subject intriguing........I love knowing when/why/how someone has been awakened to something that really stoked them into a lifelong passion.
Nice to see your drawing and a lot of old favorites. First time we went to the Picasso museum I was thinking it was just to say we went, but we ended up going many times, and being awed by the variety and ground breaking work. And I do love Russian constructivism.
Thanks for this info about the influence.
Thanks for writing Mim. Which of the Picasso museums are you referring to? There are several!