stop whining and get to work
Robert Altman in an interview said, " Mediocre artists have too few ideas, good artists have too many and great artists have one.. "
...persistent, obsessive.. idee fix...
Santayana said something similar about persistent obsession, when you have lost sight of the goal or hope of success...
I return to the figure. The arena of identity. The shell that carries the story.
Altman says the best films are the ones that ask the viewer to make the narrative, come into the frame and draw their own conclusions. I create space for the viewer to project a story of individual and group in the figurative work. It began out of necessity. I didn't have a lot of money for paper, so I overlapped figures in my life drawing sessions in the late 1970's. At first, I was only aware of the compositional choices I was making to fit several poses into the frame. When I looked at the finished (full) overlapping figures, I had inadvertently accomplished relationship, a social dialogue.
The potential of story arrived in the figures.
...persistent, obsessive.. idee fix...
Santayana said something similar about persistent obsession, when you have lost sight of the goal or hope of success...
I return to the figure. The arena of identity. The shell that carries the story.
Altman says the best films are the ones that ask the viewer to make the narrative, come into the frame and draw their own conclusions. I create space for the viewer to project a story of individual and group in the figurative work. It began out of necessity. I didn't have a lot of money for paper, so I overlapped figures in my life drawing sessions in the late 1970's. At first, I was only aware of the compositional choices I was making to fit several poses into the frame. When I looked at the finished (full) overlapping figures, I had inadvertently accomplished relationship, a social dialogue.
The potential of story arrived in the figures.
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