tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post75769098007868847..comments2024-03-28T18:48:41.469-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Thoughts without a Thinker and Beauties without a SoulGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69593668223556341272012-01-11T08:19:38.284-08:002012-01-11T08:19:38.284-08:00Re. modern and abstract art, sometimes of course i...Re. modern and abstract art, sometimes of course it <i>is</i> sublime. However, in my experience it is all too often as Picasso described. <br /><br />The trouble with the girl I mentioned earlier was that, as she whined (oh, how she <i>whined</i>!), drawing was "too hard." Nothing inspired her, and when her first painting was gently critiqued (which was a real struggle, because one's first impulse was incredulous laughter), she simply gave up. The repetitive circles to which she turned after that seemed much less an open spiral toward growth than a series of closed loops marking the shutting-down of her creativity.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54448490458731059012012-01-11T08:13:54.978-08:002012-01-11T08:13:54.978-08:00picasso shares w/ our host the sunsign Scorpio.
ZE...picasso shares w/ our host the sunsign Scorpio.<br />ZE ARTIST: sis must have that will ask for...<br /><br />it seems to me Hollywood for a while now is only best capable of self-parody---like Cruise's Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder...and in pop music my kinda favest band <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFrogsMusic" rel="nofollow">THE FROGS</a> <br />mines that + sacred-cow-in-general slaughter like the MOTHERS used togehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23562550246597044482012-01-11T07:32:14.696-08:002012-01-11T07:32:14.696-08:00Here is the quotation from Picasso I was looking f...Here is the quotation from Picasso I was looking for. This is Picasso to Giovanni Papini, in an interview that appeared in Libro Nero in 1952:<br /><br />"In art the mass of people no longer seeks consolation and exaltation, but those who are refined, rich, unoccupied, who are distillers of quintessences, seek what is new, strange, original, extravagant, scandalous. I myself, since Cubism and before, have satisfied these masters and critics with all the changing oddities which passed through my head, and the less they understood me, the more they admired me. By amusing myself with all these games, with all these absurdities, puzzles, rebuses, arabesques, I became famous and that very quickly. And fame for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated, I am rich. But when I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great and ancient sense of the term. Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt were great painters. I am only a public entertainer who has understood his times and exploited as best he could the imbecility, the vanity, the cupidity of his contemporaries. Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than it may appear, but it has the merit of being sincere."<br /><br />And it has the ring of truth.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64993832295632368442012-01-11T07:01:41.174-08:002012-01-11T07:01:41.174-08:00ge, the recent film "The Artist" looks g...ge, the recent film "The Artist" looks good -- have you seen it?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41145127808992165022012-01-11T07:00:32.510-08:002012-01-11T07:00:32.510-08:00I'm still learning what it means, but I think ...I'm still learning what it means, but I think Kitsch = comfortable.<br /><br />RE modern art (whatever that is) similar to the kind of argument John Lien was making on Mush's blog, if 0.00001% is valid, beautiful, or worthy of the term Art, it's worth pursuing.<br />I've seen some great abstract sculpture, stone carvings by Isamu Noguchi that are "something" whether it has arrived at its archetype yet or not. Abstract art, to me, seems only interested in the essence of things. A flower's flowerness, for example.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60267713736808220442012-01-11T06:49:28.477-08:002012-01-11T06:49:28.477-08:00[pardon the OT thread]
yes i got to give that WA f...[pardon the OT thread]<br />yes i got to give that WA film a try...<br />i have fond fantasy hopes of 2 other literary films of that era that a Hollywood of my dreams would produce:<br />The Harry Crosby story [could even suggest Brad & Angelina as the tragic Lost Gen lovers]...and Impressions of Africa the clinical surreal fantasy of Roussel. The current BOMB magazine has an interview between 2 of Roussel's translators who also dream of such a film's eventual fruition.<br />-maybe terry gilliam's last stand?gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35506181713811772322012-01-11T06:33:43.869-08:002012-01-11T06:33:43.869-08:00Rick
Scruton: "Kitsch reflects our failure n...Rick<br /><br />Scruton: "Kitsch reflects our failure not merely to value the human spirit but to perform those sacrificial acts that create it."<br /><br />Nailed. 1 John says it best: "Whoever fears is not perfected in love."<br /><br />Kitsch is just another way of running away.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84978931268359601972012-01-11T04:24:52.738-08:002012-01-11T04:24:52.738-08:00Fitz too.
Btw, have you seen Midnight in Paris? I ...Fitz too.<br />Btw, have you seen Midnight in Paris? I think you'd enjoy it. It's on DVD now.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44776751059197245672012-01-11T04:07:15.730-08:002012-01-11T04:07:15.730-08:00actually i may be confusing Pound w/ Joyce, sorry!...actually i may be confusing Pound w/ Joyce, sorry!---all knew one another, were pals with the dashing BLACK SUN publishers Harry & Caresse Crosby over theregehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71190512123206198392012-01-10T22:27:11.782-08:002012-01-10T22:27:11.782-08:00The transcendence of beauty at once escapes me and...The transcendence of beauty at once escapes me and returns to reward me, and only by the human eye am I patient enough to wait for it.<br /><br />Here's proposing a toast with the atom bomb to produce mushroom's cloud...Rusty Southwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15219593571227897865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55570940936296827162012-01-10T16:49:50.949-08:002012-01-10T16:49:50.949-08:00ge, was that in A Movable Feast?ge, was that in A Movable Feast?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80787035179207493172012-01-10T16:20:34.851-08:002012-01-10T16:20:34.851-08:00This put me in mind of my little meditation on ges...This put me in mind of my little meditation on <a href="http://primordialslack.com/?p=71" rel="nofollow">gesture drawing.</a><br /><br />Discipline is the frame for such freedom.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44321761092066374502012-01-10T16:19:32.818-08:002012-01-10T16:19:32.818-08:00didja know Hem. was tennis pals with Joyce in gay ...didja know Hem. was tennis pals with Joyce in gay paree??gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34534936799903078342012-01-10T14:16:40.738-08:002012-01-10T14:16:40.738-08:00Thanks, Mush.
Good article on kitsch and modern a...Thanks, Mush.<br /><br />Good article on <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_1_urbanities_kitsch_and_the.html" rel="nofollow">kitsch</a> and modern art. By Roger Scruton. By way of Mizz E. (yes, I never go for long without your wonderfilled Tumblr)Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80493624156714300942012-01-10T14:02:49.761-08:002012-01-10T14:02:49.761-08:00There's always room I think for art students t...There's always room I think for art students to mess around with materials and form. Experimentation is good. The problem lies more I think with the art dealers, critics, and gallery owners who operate as middlemen. Sometimes they perform useful service (exposition, brokering), but the inflation of prices and absurd levels of critical puffery (obviously related) are ridiculous. The temptation for young artists to pass off noodling as valuable art must be great. I have a great quotation by Picasso somewhere which describes how knowing he was about making his schtick pay.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87585062810679470932012-01-10T13:53:41.223-08:002012-01-10T13:53:41.223-08:00mushroom
"grasps the need for headroom but k...mushroom<br /><br />"grasps the need for headroom but knows it lacks the amplifying power, so it opts for really tiny speakers"<br /><br />O ye of little faith!<br /><br />Speaking of headroom, one piece of music that really troubled me in a good way was Penderecki's score for the film KATYN. I left the theatre shaking.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76158052275934448772012-01-10T13:47:24.353-08:002012-01-10T13:47:24.353-08:00No, that's a great theory, Mush. Reminds me of...No, that's a great theory, Mush. Reminds me of a girl I knew in art school, who never mastered the basics of drawing (much less composition), so in our advanced painting class she gave up trying to make something halfway good (art students rarely make it all the way) and opted for rows and rows of circles instead. The teacher, an abstract painter himself, loved it.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70812828949134491092012-01-10T13:42:43.979-08:002012-01-10T13:42:43.979-08:00But I could have said, "Cradle." And th...But I could have said, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_%28grain%29" rel="nofollow">"Cradle."</a> And that's is part of what makes Rick's writing art. <br /><br />My theory, which I just developed after reading today's post, is that a lot of modern art grasps the need for headroom but knows it lacks the amplifying power, so it opts for really tiny speakers.<br /><br />Or it pulls the engine from a '73 Vega and uses it on a very small oval go-cart track.<br /><br />Also, I could reject this theory tomorrow.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61895072706561911012012-01-10T13:19:20.209-08:002012-01-10T13:19:20.209-08:00I don't care for the man all that much, but he...I don't care for the man all that much, but he knew what he was talking about when it was about writing.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90752682792409217592012-01-10T13:06:30.553-08:002012-01-10T13:06:30.553-08:00Rick said "... he compares his theory about w...Rick said "... he compares his theory about writing to an assberg." <br /><br />I think an Assberg is a totaly appropriate comparison for Hemmingway.<br /><br />Big fan.<br /><br />No. Really.<br /><br />No.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64723638329540606002012-01-10T13:04:02.301-08:002012-01-10T13:04:02.301-08:00I made Mushroom say scythe once.
...based on the t...I made Mushroom say <a href="http://listening-now.blogspot.com/2009/10/morning.html" rel="nofollow">scythe</a> once.<br />...based on the theory that Hemingway was right.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3180617450111090212012-01-10T12:56:02.353-08:002012-01-10T12:56:02.353-08:00"In 1923 Hemingway conceived of the idea of a..."In 1923 Hemingway conceived of the idea of a new theory of writing after finishing his short story "Out of Season". In A Moveable Feast, his posthumously published memoirs about his years as a young writer in Paris, he explains: "I omitted the real end [of "Out of Season"] which was that the old man hanged himself. This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything ... and the omitted part would strengthen the story." In the opening chapter of Death in the Afternoon he compares his theory about writing to an assberg."Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51270861376817907942012-01-10T12:44:47.928-08:002012-01-10T12:44:47.928-08:00Headroom. Excellent, must use immediately. A red l...Headroom. Excellent, must use immediately. A red letter day.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55886042848137301352012-01-10T12:37:42.917-08:002012-01-10T12:37:42.917-08:00Verdiales - too funny. Not sure where I fall in th...Verdiales - too funny. Not sure where I fall in that one, probably the "Second year artist" category, except I usually prefer to stick to one word. I'd leave most of them untitled, except it bugs me to have an untitled blog post.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85124490244708775122012-01-10T12:24:01.859-08:002012-01-10T12:24:01.859-08:00http://www.kpraslowicz.com/2011/02/09/8-ways-to-ti...http://www.kpraslowicz.com/2011/02/09/8-ways-to-title-a-photograph/<br /><br />Heh. <br /><br />"Your Title Here"<br />"Mandated Title TBA"<br />"Title Unknown, Probably Delinquent"<br /><br />Or just assign them random character strings, names of colors, etc.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.com