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I'm on my way to church.
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I checked my mail.
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I took a nap.
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I also bought new art supplies last evening.
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I'm going to be busy painting.
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Contemporary art is kitsch - I know because I make it. I just read a great article on the subject and I realized all my work is crap. Isn't that great and liberating. My parents were right... I couldn't paint my way out of a paper bag.
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And yet I keep doing it.
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Oh! Oh! I'm also writing a new self-help book, "You're No Good and Either Am I".
And the Great St Thomas Aquinis said after his personal revelation, "All I have written is so much straw.."
ReplyDeleteSo you're in good company :)
Sara
P.S The world is always a better place with new glasses :)
I was hoping for crap art therapy.
ReplyDeleteWe should collaborate on that book - I could write a chapter called "You'd Be A Much Better Person If You Were More Like Me."
ReplyDeleteGreat idea - like Ben Afleck and Matt Damon - we could be on Oprah! Let's do it!
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ReplyDeleteSo you want Oprah's attention, aye? Why stop at a self-help book? Create your own freaking seminar!
I would go to that seminar! By the way, I don't think your art is kitsch.
ReplyDeleteDuring my brief foray with being an art major, I had a professor who had a perfect comeback for people who would say "I could paint a better picture than that." His answer was, "Then why don't you?"
Thanks Melody!
ReplyDeleteEnbrethiliel: Seminars - wonderful idea!
Terry, I may have mentioned this before, but a must-read book for all artists is "The Twilight of Painting" by R. H. Ives Gammell. It was published in 1946 0r 1947 -- you can get it used at Amazon. If you want to understand Modern "art", this is the best exposition of its causes, period.
ReplyDeleteTerry - you can be Matt, I'll be Ben.
ReplyDeleteTerry and LarryD moments before their appearance on Oprah
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