ART WORK?
Rethink: ART PLAY!
What is ART SPACE? It is whatever space you have, sometimes variable times of day or night, lighting, feeling correct energy (life force), creativity inspirations and (breathe) flexibility!
Recently I carved out a bit of art "space and time" to feel more like "me." Some fun drawings, new styles of color and subjects. The creative writing ART SPACE is here in this room, blending pictures and words/worlds. The art room is perfect for writing! I "tried" to paint in here, but the energy was not there, so I switched gears many years ago and used the kitchen table or the dining room table (a cat allowed space) in the living room. "There" I felt my haven for natural daylight and creative response at peak, "auto paint" relaxed and alert, free of conscious thought.
PAINTING WITHIN:
* Monet's water lilies bring to mind the "surface and the depth" of light and color. My favorites of blues and greens in the water plus tree stems and branches on the banks and below as reflections. Puffy clouds display their cotton shapes reflected in the softly rippling water. Sprinkled with oranges, yellows and pinks, water lilies float, dance, spin, and preen. *Walt Disney's Fantasia original movie comes into glorious multidimensions. A Day in the Country and Dance of the Flowers come to vibrant life.
When I saw Claud Monet's paintings for the first time: Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, I stook stock still and silent, visually feasting my eyes and mind as Claud Monet instantly became my favorite painter of nature. Monet's scientific blends of ever shifting light and color, thick paint, thin paint, active brush slashes and fine detail. Activity and Rest. "Art and Science are One," Henry Adams, book, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
THE BIGGER PICTURE
** A Visit to an Art Museum: Carnegie Art Museum/Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA
We tour with Fred Rogers (Mr. Roger's Neighborhood) and Bay Judson, our tour guide and art expert. Put on your tennis shoes!
Fred reminds us: View the paintings with "thoughts that you have as you look carefully and listen carefully."
When I revisit this painting, a seascape with seals, waves, clouds, sky and rocks, "I experience something new I didn't see before."
Living Art!
"Stand Back and see even more. If you look carefully and don't say a word, sometimes you feel you are there."
Silent Speaking.
Bay Judson: Here are "Paintings by the same artist that look very different. I liked the steep limestone cliffs over the blue/turquoise sea strokes, Childe Hassam, American Impressionist painter, various styles and subjects.
Fred: "I can jump into the picnic painting!" A large canvas in free style, reminded me of a movie scene.
Fred: "How do you find your way around here?"
Bay: "It's almost like my second home." [Me Too}
A CHANGE OF ART
Fred: "Every time you turn a corner, it changes, so like life."
"Here is one that looks like child style, finger paint. Does Van Gogh use paint brushes?"
Bay: "Yes, he does, dots, straight lines, almost like a patchwork quilt. Zig Zag farm fields leads you eye up into the sky."
Picture a misty mountain, veiled in puffy clouds with gentle swirls of white cotton and pale pink. I didn't notice the pink at first. "I am home!"
PAINTING IN MOTION
Bay and Fred quickly enter a large expansive room with enormous canvases and unusual sculptures to tease our imaginations.
PAINTING WITHIN A PAINTING
Bay: "Here is Juan Miro," Abstract Expressionist Painter, "What do you see?"
Fred: "I see a circle with a dark circle center that looks like an eye." There is a line of different small squares of colors, the last square was yellow, "the only yellow in the painting."
Fred: "It's like a dream, isn't it? Thats the good part about looking, what you imagine."
Bay: "Everyone has different ideas. These shapes look like doves to me."
Fred: "Really bright colors, a happy place!"
Quiet Space:
Fred: "I just wanted to know if you have a favorite painting?"
Bay: "Well, that's a hard question because my favorite painting changes almost every day."
Fred: "Changes?"
Bay: "Yes, I change inside, I just like a different painting."
Fred: "So it's how you feel inside that determines how you look through your eyes."
HEART SPACE
*** "Everything the Light Touches," Mufasa to Simba in The Lion King
Blogger Search Key Words: Claude Monet, Impressionist Painters, Abstract, Sculptures, photographs, poetry, writing, drawing, creativity, music and more.
Resources:
* Rick Steves Europe: Paris: Life and Art (2012), and other Paris shows, PBS.org
Monet's Palette (Facebook)
** Mr. Roger's Neighborhood (aired Nov 1981), A Visit to an Art Museum, Fred Roger's Productions, PBS.org
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the stories continue in cartoon form, PBS.org, Fred Roger's Productions, 9 Story Entertainment, for kids of all ages
*** Fantasia, Walt Disney Productions (1940), art and music blended come to life, full length feature film, animated. The Lion King, (1994) Original full length animated film with music lyrics sung by Elton John,
Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author and Tai Chi Practitioner
Images
Playing with Light, photo
Vibrational Angel, St. Aubert's Abbey, oil painting (detail)
Dancing Tree, pen on paper, "one liner" drawing, free flowing
February Moonset, Photo by Rob, printed with permission
