Back to the art studio where I was taking a class. An art studio is a place where passions run deep, usually unseen, undetected, until a provoking moment brings forth a torrent of intensity. I tried to copy a painting by Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, The Bride of the Wind. Copying has been standard practice…
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin Artists constantly debate what art is. Among, as well as within, themselves. Often the conflict, or at least the point of contention is whether art is or has to be an original creation. But what qualifies as original anyway? More likely than not, our ideas or at…
Art is: A Tube of Paint. On first blush, this makes sense, at least when it comes to painting: Most paintings start with a canvas and a tube (or tubes) of paint. But, before Marcel Duchamp and, perhaps, Russian avant-garde painter Wassily Kandinsky—credited with producing the first abstract paintings—a painting also needed an idea and/or…
A curious intrigue surrounded Marcel Duchamp’s urinal aka Fountain by R. Mutt. The original urinal not only never graced the show it sought to get into. It had mysteriously disappeared. Where to and taken by whom? No one knew or would say. It is, in fact, this disappearance that bestowed on Fountain its notoriety and…
This is a reblog from my old “lost” site, Journey On A Limb. But, I believe it deals with a question we revisit all the time. What is art? Is it what YOU call art? What an art critic calls art? An art historian, perhaps? Or, is it what WE all collectively call art? Is…
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