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Puzzles are not always Puzzles.
By Alvie N Leeper
Puzzles are often hidden inside something else. Case in point is the construction of a painting or drawing.
It saddens and upsets me when I view what is sometines put forth as art in paintings these days. Like so much of the education in the last three decades Form, Structure, Rules and such have been sluffed over or just deleted because they are too much trouble ,no apparent need and so on.Composition became an unnecessary chore and was dispencsed with. In my time ,30 + years as an Artist, I learned my art from the books written by conscienious Artists and Sculpturers who strove to create works that took hold of you and made some part of you tingle with an emotion.
So to the puzzle of creating a painting.C O M P O S I T I O N . The very heart of a painting.It is a sad comentary
that I with only my own initiative of learning how to paint I had four pupils in my classes who held Masters Degrees in Art and had no knowledge of how to construct or compose a painting.Composition is the placing of the objects you are painting in the stragetic places on the canvas so the viewer psychologicly is drawn to these positions.A puzzle which ,if you are successful, brings forth a strong painting beckoning a viewer to enter. As a matter of self interest ,pick up an Art Magazine today and see how many (Artists?) simply stick the subject in the middle of the page.Take a piece of paper and cover the Rt or Lf quarter or third of the painting and see how it changes.Cracking this puzzle makes the difference between an Artist and a paint thrower. Composition unfortunitely remains a mystery to many who suscribe to the designation of ARTIST. Add to this the mixing and use of color and you have a quamire of missing knowledge.
It is unfortunate that Integrity, Honesty and Effort has been neglected in the education of the last two or three generations of our College Educated people.If it is pretty or will go with your Blue Couch its good art. Sorry I can't abide with that premise. I find it sad that this attitude prevails throughout the offspring of the Babyboomers. It is almost as though the painter can not instill their painting with the truth of what they are painting.Artists of the last century had no qualms about painting all the hair on a womens body,but today you must be politically correct and skip, avoid and leave out to meet this standard.
I find it very puzzling to encounter people who indulge in painting ,a very personal ,intuitive and mental activity and they approach it in a arcane manner with little or no specific drive or target. In one history book I find Rembrandt listed as a young Master Artist. Astounding? Not really when you know that he had acquired 13 years of apprenticeship to a Master Artist by that time.
The puzzle of creating has always intrigued mankind and saddly not all rise to the challenge and strive to reach the pinnicle of excellences. Alvien
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Contributor's Note
I have a background of drawing starting with my Quacker Great Grand Mother who started me out drawing a little Porcelian Piggy Bank when I was three. I have earned all or part of my livelyhood through my art for 20 years. I have taught 3500+ people how to paint.Not as I paint but the techniques and methods of creating a painting.
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Creating is such a beautiful thing, Alvie. Thank you for sharing.
Best wishes.
Frederick
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You are quite welcome . I am glad you take the time to reply to my offerings. Thank you Alvien
It would seem to me that if those who profess to be artists keep lowering the bar of what is acceptable, it is in some part due to the lowered expectations of those who observe the art. When bad behavior is rewarded with praise, bad behavior will continue. Unfortunately, until the demand for inferior art diminishes the quality of the art will continue to deteriorate.
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How right you are. This relates back to my intel of the deminishing of the standards in the U of C universities. If a person is held to shoddy work that is what he will produce. Add to this the Cheap promoters who import foriegn ,especially Asian paintings by the roll and it becomes self perpetuating.
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