… okay … maybe this stream-of-consciousness will work … and
I made a mistake yesterday with stream-of-conscious which should have been
stream-of-consciousness … but that's okay … I'm not going to erase or correct
yesterday's choices because the editor in my brain isn't talking to me … every
time I want to correct my past he says, "live with it" … and I add,
"get on with it" …
… today it's about Picasso … I own a lot of books about Picasso and I don't know why … big books, little books … fat books, thin books, books with pictures, books without pictures … there they stand and lie throughout my house and studio … I think I have a lot of Picasso books because I don't understand the "why" … I thought I did and now I see I was wrong there too …
… at first I believed he experimented to break away from his art teacher father …. and … to break away from tradition … Picasso was a craftsman in his youth … so … who wants to keep painting the same reality over-and-over again … for almost 40 years I held that belief … but then I began to read [and watch the DVDs] of Professor Judith V. Grabiner's lectures from The Great Courses series "Mathematics, Philosophy, and the 'RealWorld'" ... and I thought "oh!" …
… it's a 36 lecture series and way too much for me to cover here … but the lectures have left me reeling … now I have a glimmer of the "why" and cubists' paintings … I haven't formalized the reasons into two-or-three sentences … yet … but knowing me, I will mull-and-mull and then mull some more … the Picasso book I am currently reading is Pepe Karmel's "Picasso and the Invention of Cubism" … Karmel analyzes Picasso's drawings and paintings line-and-brush stroke by line-and brush stroke … a wonderful in-depth analysis …
… what cheers me about Picasso's method of study is his years of experimentation … and failures(?) … does a brand name ever fail? … I had [still have?] a brilliant idea about a series of drawings I wanted to work out on a special type of paper … I was [and still am] bothered by old computer books thrown into recycling bins when the paper used by the publisher was of a fairly good quality … some are more lightweight than others … but these papers will not yellow with age … so … how to recycle the pages into drawings? …
… first … I tried the blackout technique … you know the kind … I find the poem within that page's text … and blackout all the other words … as wonderfully illustrated by Austin Kleon's "Newspaper Blackout" ... the first page I did read, "the ability to play is volatile" … whoa … nice work Ida … but … I don't have the temperament to sit there and draw my marker through line after line on a page … I don't feel creative doing mechanical work … and know that in time I will drop that idea … [this is where I always say, your art will find you, you won't find it] … that is, your temperament will guide you …
… then … to be continued tomorrow … this is a two-and-one-half year of failure after failure …
… today it's about Picasso … I own a lot of books about Picasso and I don't know why … big books, little books … fat books, thin books, books with pictures, books without pictures … there they stand and lie throughout my house and studio … I think I have a lot of Picasso books because I don't understand the "why" … I thought I did and now I see I was wrong there too …
… at first I believed he experimented to break away from his art teacher father …. and … to break away from tradition … Picasso was a craftsman in his youth … so … who wants to keep painting the same reality over-and-over again … for almost 40 years I held that belief … but then I began to read [and watch the DVDs] of Professor Judith V. Grabiner's lectures from The Great Courses series "Mathematics, Philosophy, and the 'RealWorld'" ... and I thought "oh!" …
… it's a 36 lecture series and way too much for me to cover here … but the lectures have left me reeling … now I have a glimmer of the "why" and cubists' paintings … I haven't formalized the reasons into two-or-three sentences … yet … but knowing me, I will mull-and-mull and then mull some more … the Picasso book I am currently reading is Pepe Karmel's "Picasso and the Invention of Cubism" … Karmel analyzes Picasso's drawings and paintings line-and-brush stroke by line-and brush stroke … a wonderful in-depth analysis …
… what cheers me about Picasso's method of study is his years of experimentation … and failures(?) … does a brand name ever fail? … I had [still have?] a brilliant idea about a series of drawings I wanted to work out on a special type of paper … I was [and still am] bothered by old computer books thrown into recycling bins when the paper used by the publisher was of a fairly good quality … some are more lightweight than others … but these papers will not yellow with age … so … how to recycle the pages into drawings? …
… first … I tried the blackout technique … you know the kind … I find the poem within that page's text … and blackout all the other words … as wonderfully illustrated by Austin Kleon's "Newspaper Blackout" ... the first page I did read, "the ability to play is volatile" … whoa … nice work Ida … but … I don't have the temperament to sit there and draw my marker through line after line on a page … I don't feel creative doing mechanical work … and know that in time I will drop that idea … [this is where I always say, your art will find you, you won't find it] … that is, your temperament will guide you …
… then … to be continued tomorrow … this is a two-and-one-half year of failure after failure …
Ida Kotyuk, Portrait Painter©
If you get fewer than 2,000 rejections a year, you are not
working hard enough
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