I do agree. Developing drawing skills can bring more opportunities for freedom. I would love to be a master painter so I could draw like a child if I chose to on any given day. I believe too many people don’t take their own art with love and devotion simply because of comparison with others who appear to have more (practiced) talent. I was a cook for many years. I was a good one, and became very creative (to my ability) in the restaurant kitchen. Still, I knew there were chefs out there Michelin rated, and even worked with one who was certainly a master of the culinary arts. However, I realized that I took cooking to the apex of my limitations, and I felt power in the practice. Power and freedom. For me, it’s the same with visual art. I have only one life to live. If I compare my work to Rembrandt or Chuck Close, then I will always be frustrated, and my work will not be true (to me and my limitations), and I’ll suffer. Henry Thoreau wrote that there are “many ways to live as radii drawn can be drawn from a center”. I feel the same with art. Success for me is someone being able to tell a Rembrandt from my work. A chateaubriand presentation? “No, it’s a Ron Throop—memorable hamburger with fries:)
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Sincerely speaking, you've just motivated me with your comment cause I am currently struggling with sometime similar and now I think I just go all out and keep doing me. Thank you very much. 🙏♥️
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And wow back to you!
Thanks:)
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You're most welcome friend.
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I like the cook and limitations part it comforts, makes one think about who you are,liketo be and what you want for real.
The freedom to express and be.
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Thank you! I used to pin the following quote on my front door:
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Sorry, for the late reply, you should know I read you and also the info about #stuckism. I think about it but I like to exchange the canvas for other materials as well. I assume that's no problem? I have to find a new schedule next to what I'm doing or the the doing is better next to what I intend to do.
The message on your front door is a good one. I wonder how many read it or asked you what you meant by it or did they turn around and decided to go home, or never read a word used to the text on the door?
Bluebeard... there was a comic series named that way I loved it. Still have a part of these comics. I like the tale as well.
Thanks for the sharing and brightening my day.
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Stuckism says it starts at the stopping point. I think it began as a reactionary movement of silly conceptual art exchanged among billionaires. One of its founders was dating a girl who exhibited her unmade bed, dirty laundry, ashtray, empty liquor bottles, etc... and Charles Satchhi the English billionaire, paid her $200,000 for it. He re-installed it in his mansion and showed it off at parties. The novelty paid off. He resold it in 2014, I believe, for 2 million. Stuckism is a reform movement back to traditional arts, and yes, that pretty much includes everything. Paint for painting’s sake. Make music for joy not riches. All art forms expressed by the need to express, not make a buck...
Human beings are artists. “Moderate giftedness” (quote above) is each and every one of us in a perfect world. Those who breakthrough and realize this, I believe, have a calling to reminds us all of what we have lost and the joy of living that can be regained. Painting is my path. There are many more ways, right?
Thank you!
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The ashtray and underwear art sounds a bit like the painted can left behind in an elevator and thrown away because it wasn't recognised as such (in the museum where it was "left" )
I will be hard to to back to traditional art. I no longer see schools with drawing classes, painting, begin creative. Not even holding a pen is taught. No one plays outside in the mud, writes on a wall, carves in a stone... Are humans still artists? I agree we lost a lot of joy, most of it as we gave up on trying out and creating.
It's not even allowed to get dirty if you play.
There are indeed many ways but if it comes to it painting is the first choice if it comes to expressing or ventilating feelings (it's used in all kinds of institutions the only artistic places left?)
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Yes, it is just like that! Conceptual art without the “art” is just conceptual, and I think on concepts all day long, which doesn’t make me an artist, unless I make art:)
I am fortunate to have friends who still carry on in the traditional arts. You mention “carving stone”. My friend and neighbor is an excellent marble sculptor. He drives a couple hundred miles to pick out discarded stone from quarries. Works without reward, and makes beautiful pieces.
I agree about painting/drawing. It is a very expressive art that can be understood. I believe music and dancing are more necessary for (social) happiness, but they don’t necessarily need to be practiced as an art to be exhibited.
More music and dancing please. It’ll make the billionaires unwanted.
One of my friend Eric’s pieces he brought over for show and tell last autumn. “Mitochondrial Eve” 2024. Marble.
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Your friends art is amazing and what I find more special is he searches for the material. This one feel like stroking 😍
It's what I do with a wooden weeping Buddha as I keep it on my lap. This one feels the same.
It's strange how marble can change into a face and generate warm feelings unlike the marble floors in my grandparent's house.
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Yes, it is the triumph of art practice—the transformation, on so man levels!
My friend Eric is trained in physics and works as a professor at the university teaching future science teachers. He suggested a new class to the provost, one to show comparisons of art and science. It was accepted and now he can take art into the professional life. He really is a wonder, in that he has this late in life a deep sense of wonder.
Thank you!
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