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The Books. thebooksmusic.com/ It might be my all time favorite website, not just band site.
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My latest project...
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For some reason I really feel like sharing about this one. I've been telling everyone, so why not put it here? I'm trying to talk to some dead people. Specifically, dead female writers (why do I keep calling them artists?) I'm doing a bunch of series about them, and me. Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Edna St. Vincent Millay. It might be close to twenty pieces total. Stay tuned.
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On Modern Art
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I really don't know much about it. But I'm tired of the endless "I hate modern art". The other day I got, "I LOVE modern furniture, but I HATE modern art". Well isn't modern furniture modern art? Don't you listen to modern art? Aren't you, in fact, a piece of modern art, created by a god in a modern time? I'm sick of people dismissing modern art as "a dot on a canvas". Not all modern art is that abstracted. And what is art, except abstracted feeling? And what's wrong with that? Why does everyone seem to hold some grudge against Pollack, Warhol, Duchamp? Mxore than the individual art they created, their contribution was the movement they sparked. The way they changed the public's perception of art.
Why the grudge? Why do you "hate" modern art. You realize, that by insulting modern art, you insult my art, which you've never even seen. Or maybe you have, in the way I dress, the amount of makeup I wear lumped on my face like clumps of paint left too long on a paper palette. So I apologize for being art. I apologize for those who attempted to steer art away from realistic perception, towards subjectivity. Because we all see the world differently, and what's wrong with showing that?
What's wrong with showing anything on a canvas? Art is an outlet, a gallery or museum is the only place we have to tell the world how we feel. Or some of us at least. Because when we try to speak our heart in other venues, we are shot down for being different, for feeling, for thinking. So let us speak through art. Naked, sex, violence, it is how we feel. How dare we suppress it.
Why value perfection? Everything has to be perfect, a photograph, and that has become "beautiful". But what if I can do something better, what if I can show perfect feeling? Feeling that is different, or perhaps it is what everyone feels, but is too afraid to say. Let me show my darker side before it boils up, uncontrollable. Complain if you will. Call it "emo" or "depressed". But don't you dare suppress what I have inside, what is dying to be released. I will release it.
My friend the other day asked me, "How do you know if art is good or bad? How can a teacher grade a painting?" I told her that what makes art "good" is art that is different, that adds something to what we consider "art". When art is no different then what came before, what consequence does it carry? She said she sees no beauty in a Monet or Van Gogh. I told her I grew up on them. I fed off them as a little child. I would go with my mother to museums and pose beside Degas' Little Dancer. I would carry art supplies and a sketchbook to appear like the students I envied who walked by with their sketchbook to draw art for assignments. I would stare long at lilies and starry nights. Because it is what I know, I consider it beautiful. And perhaps that is why so many dislike modern art. It is not what they know, what they are used to. It is meant to jar us. It keeps you on your toes.
I guess I just hate dismissive, closed minded people in general. But it seems that a lot of people are dismissive when it comes to "modern art" as a whole. To me, I can't understand how someone could detest something that represents the era in which they live. I thrive at MOMAs; I also love Renaissance art. To me, it is all beautiful. It is art. It is expression.
Why the grudge? Why do you "hate" modern art. You realize, that by insulting modern art, you insult my art, which you've never even seen. Or maybe you have, in the way I dress, the amount of makeup I wear lumped on my face like clumps of paint left too long on a paper palette. So I apologize for being art. I apologize for those who attempted to steer art away from realistic perception, towards subjectivity. Because we all see the world differently, and what's wrong with showing that?
What's wrong with showing anything on a canvas? Art is an outlet, a gallery or museum is the only place we have to tell the world how we feel. Or some of us at least. Because when we try to speak our heart in other venues, we are shot down for being different, for feeling, for thinking. So let us speak through art. Naked, sex, violence, it is how we feel. How dare we suppress it.
Why value perfection? Everything has to be perfect, a photograph, and that has become "beautiful". But what if I can do something better, what if I can show perfect feeling? Feeling that is different, or perhaps it is what everyone feels, but is too afraid to say. Let me show my darker side before it boils up, uncontrollable. Complain if you will. Call it "emo" or "depressed". But don't you dare suppress what I have inside, what is dying to be released. I will release it.
My friend the other day asked me, "How do you know if art is good or bad? How can a teacher grade a painting?" I told her that what makes art "good" is art that is different, that adds something to what we consider "art". When art is no different then what came before, what consequence does it carry? She said she sees no beauty in a Monet or Van Gogh. I told her I grew up on them. I fed off them as a little child. I would go with my mother to museums and pose beside Degas' Little Dancer. I would carry art supplies and a sketchbook to appear like the students I envied who walked by with their sketchbook to draw art for assignments. I would stare long at lilies and starry nights. Because it is what I know, I consider it beautiful. And perhaps that is why so many dislike modern art. It is not what they know, what they are used to. It is meant to jar us. It keeps you on your toes.
I guess I just hate dismissive, closed minded people in general. But it seems that a lot of people are dismissive when it comes to "modern art" as a whole. To me, I can't understand how someone could detest something that represents the era in which they live. I thrive at MOMAs; I also love Renaissance art. To me, it is all beautiful. It is art. It is expression.
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Coldplay
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So I liked this band until I saw their website. Then I loved them. You MUST check it out www.coldplay.com/site.php
They exhibit different pieces of art every day. Check out the exhibition room... so cool! So art inspired. Too cool for me.
They exhibit different pieces of art every day. Check out the exhibition room... so cool! So art inspired. Too cool for me.
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THE MOST AMAZING WEBSITE EVER
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This site is a MUST for any illustrator, author, creative person. I randomly found it while researching an Italian artist. You must check it out
issuu.com/explore
I kinda sorta fell in love with it. I'm in mad shock right now that something like that actually exists. Wow.
issuu.com/explore
I kinda sorta fell in love with it. I'm in mad shock right now that something like that actually exists. Wow.
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