Feel the fear and paint it
Marion Milner, a celebrated child psychoanalyst wrote of her own creative anxieties in her book On Not Being Able to Paint (Heineman, 1950, but still… Read More »Feel the fear and paint it
aesthetics
The mind in another cave
Another early scratching of an early human endeavouring to capture the external world has been found in Wales (2011). What was this person thinking, and… Read More »The mind in another cave
What is ‘altermodernism’?
Image by nattu via Flickr The inmates have escaped again and flooded the world with another wind egg. Called ‘altermodernism’, a term as ugly as… Read More »What is ‘altermodernism’?
Do artists think?
When an artists ‘does art’, what are they thinking? Are they merely in the moment or are they constructing some sort of story (narrative for… Read More »Do artists think?
All that is real, isn’t, really
Image via Wikipedia I am still trying to make sense of Malevich. His book, commented on in an earlier posting, published in English in 1959,… Read More »All that is real, isn’t, really
Russian unorthodox: Malevich
Malevich is almost rediscovered! His book,”Non-objective World” paints a surprising contemporary vision of art. I like the idea of prescribing a dose of Cubism to… Read More »Russian unorthodox: Malevich
Rothko @ Tate Modern
The Rothko exhibit is a bit of a disappointment. Perhaps too many pieces, so people trying to figure out which painting will give them the… Read More »Rothko @ Tate Modern