In a message dated 01/12/2002 8:37:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lseiler@ez-net.com writes:
> From my hindsight, I see that working indoors made me a careful observer, a
> reasoner, a seasoned draftsman with abilities to render and establish
> values, and able to understand color from a convergent analysis mode of
> thinking. Painting outdoors however, has nearly made me cynical now of many
> of the priorities I had formerly. I see now that for many years I was
> an artist. Perhaps a good artist. I believe now however, that I am a better
> "painter."
>
> Painting outdoors. Seeing color as light reveals it. Time restraints of
> limiting light allowing only urgent spontaneous necessary strokes of color
> has shown me that a painting can be made with no other conscious thought
> but
> to see a color, its size and shape, and to make a mark that imitates it in
> all its brilliance.
>
Larry- Yes, yes! I understand you exactly! I, too, think of myself as a
"painter". I am in love with color and let that element of art dictate how
and what I am painting. I'm more interested in the colors and their
relationship to one another than I am in rendering. My colors seem to bring
on movement and shape- it seems to happen without a conscious effort to
"rendering". It's an exhilarating feeling to be able to express what I sees
through strokes of color.
I just got back from Aruba where the periwinkle blue sky against the
teal/turquiose waters, the lime and bright greens, the whites- all in
spectacular light, kept me painting all week long. It was such a feast for
the eyes!
How do you feel about Kandinsky's work? I could sit in front of his
paintings of "Winter", Summer", "Spring", and "Fall" at MoMA all day and cry
from the emotion it evokes in me. Although not done plein aire, I would
assume, and not spontaniously, but mathmatically, I am mesmorized by the
genius of Kandinsky and fascinated by his technique and formulas. I have
read his books, "Sounds" and "Point and Line to Plane". Talk about relating
painting/art to poetry! His work is so calculated yet looks so spontanious.
Larry, what do you think of Kandinsky's work? Have you, or anyone else out
there read his books? What do you think?
