Sunday, August 17, 2008
a flower is a joy forever...
"A Lone Iris" by Anita Wolfe, the award winning artist that can paint my happiness and joy...and i thank her for that, immensely :) for not all artists have the talent, capacity or capability to paint beauty such as flowers that mean sunshine and a smile for me. sorry to offend anyone, as if some people read this blog, laughs. but it's just a fact that others excel in something else as you and me do in another one, not me though for i never excelled in anything, laughs. now a question...is there beauty in darkness? yes there is but not in darkness itself but it's in the thought that it is a step that is there to be overcome in order to have that light or sunshine after dawn or after that dark spooky night. for when the sky is dark and gray i see no beauty in it for i see dark clouds that might bring floods that may drown and may kill some living things including humans, so it's agony and you're perverted if you see beauty in agony and suffering, you are weird and that's point blank...it seems like your own unconscious mind is making your hands draw or paint things to make it known outside of you, your very own repressed desires of whatever that is maybe which are being manifested in your works, like revenge or thoughts of destruction of those that maltreated you maybe when you were younger and that is sad. one can deny it all that he/she wants but the proof are there facing everybody's eyes, laughs. oh well. but as they say, "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" as we are different human beings with different strokes, takes, tastes, likes, eyes and minds :) as some painters paint with what they've gone through in their very own lives then...and now as it happens in their very own world as well, is their present subject...my take :> and what could possibly be the reason why a painter refuses to paint your request? it might be "fear" that they won't meet your expectations? it might be fear that they'll lose themselves in the process for they want to put an identity stamp in their works? losing their own identities in the process so to speak if they say yes and surely that would be a problem, isn't it? but a painter should always be evolving and so is his art...in other words, a sensitive painter should be able to change as the situation requires for after all when all is said and done it is his own easel, canvas, hands and brush that made that created art work alive even what kind of a request his patron or his customer had requested as a subject for him or her to do, so it is a very high challenge for that artist at hand. indeed...if one painter refuses to paint what you want, that is a sign of inflexibility and unwillingness to grow as an artist in my mind, but this is only me, laughs. oh well. and it does not count, so that's that :) and besides it's the painter's art so it makes sense that he or she decides what is there to paint, right? although my admiration goes to the one who can paint me whatever i want as a decoration in my house, (yeah i know art is not supposed to be a decoration, laughs. okay, how about a show object?) :) not what that painter wants, for it's me who will be looking at that painting every day of my life and this is right also so and put this on record that i refused to be "tortured" by just merely by an art, i want that art to create positive feelings from me not negativity for that is bad energy, laughs...there should be harmony... the customer should be first be satisfied, laughs. and in any business the policy is that the customer is always right, so again, my point is that... make the customer happy for your art to be a success, in my book, but that is just me, so...pardon pls. :) and while we're at this subject of this so called art, I'm reminded of one of Mr. Jim Paredes' many posts in his blog. it's about a certain pinoy painter whose art is really needed to be given a boost, nationally i mean for he deserves it. his art rocks, i love them. when I'll be in the Phil. I'll check on him and plan to buy his works :) yes like a singer, it is in exposure that one artist will be a success plus that extra-ordinary talent as well similar to that lady painter who created portraits of Alan Greenspan, the very influential money man here in the U.S. of A, which airily truly resembles him in person. one painting alone had made this extra-ordinarily talented lady set for life, money wise. and that my friend is one measure of success of an artist. it's not in the hype but really it is truly in her very own created art plus clever selection of her subject, intelligent lady if you ask me, laughs, for that reason alone. for art imitates life to the max, my view, even no matter what anyone would say and most likely than not it is the artist's life or desires that in subtlety is being shown to us in those canvases, us the viewing public, believe it or not, so really it's your choice where you would want to spend your money for it's yours. the best that i could remember is that positive paintings are rewarded tremendously, check above my recent post for proof :) the Mona Lisa of Austria, named Adele. that painting is the most expensive art ever sold to date. Amazing! so why not paint your lady love, muse or goddess instead? laughs, in the manner or frame like what the great Klimt did, just a hint for any budding artist. this way you'll make her happy and you won't have that fear in life that you gonna lose her...(^_~)...just a tip from me :>