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woo! so Im back from houston! the trip was awesome. not much to say other than it was a successful VAS trip.
art places that I went to see:
Museum of fine arts- houston (2 buildings and a sculpture garden)
contemporary art museum
menil collection building
cy twombley building
rothko chapel
art opening at some art gallery
another opening at an art store (but you dont purchase supplies at this store, you purchase ART... yeah! it's not a gallery though. they sold like print-making people art aka prints, books, buttons, etc not paintings and such)
sooooooooooo Im finally home! yay! i missed home. it was weird finally being away. I had a good time, and I got to see a lot of fabulous art (old and new) which satisfied my sweet tooth (for now)
I must admit, after seeing a lot of surrealist paintings in person, it made me like them less than before. I dont like surrealists to start off with (to self-centered and dali... oh just dont get me started about him. *gags* guy is phenomenal when it comes to technique though)
point being, I did not enjoy the colors or surfaces of most of the paintings. they seemed to have very few thin layers of paint, which isnt normally a problem, but I ont think that the paintings I saw should have been dopne that way. they just needed like two more coats of tinted glaze in some areas, and THEN I think they would have been way more enjoyable. Of course, the subject matter was not enjoyable... that's another story.
surrealism was great for it's time because it was something new and what not, but when people try to revive it (or worship dali and his art movement), it irritates me...
I saw a sargent painting, and I wasnt as excited as I would have been if I had seen it two weeks before. I talked to alexander, and he told me to quit looking at him and look at fischl more. he gave me an amazing compliment, too, saying that he thought what I was doing with the figure was a lot more ineteresting than sargent (notice, though, he did not say i was better nor technique was better or anything like that... if I was better, I wouldnt be at slu still, i would be in New york making big bucks...)
point bieng, my conversation with him changed the way I think (yet again) about figure paintings, and Im kinda like "ok, I came, I saw, and I might not have conquered, but I surely as hell need to move on" type of thing... being an artist is so wonderful because we are always developing who we are and what we do... wow.
im so tired and i dont know if anything makes sense. sorry if it's confusing
art places that I went to see:
Museum of fine arts- houston (2 buildings and a sculpture garden)
contemporary art museum
menil collection building
cy twombley building
rothko chapel
art opening at some art gallery
another opening at an art store (but you dont purchase supplies at this store, you purchase ART... yeah! it's not a gallery though. they sold like print-making people art aka prints, books, buttons, etc not paintings and such)
sooooooooooo Im finally home! yay! i missed home. it was weird finally being away. I had a good time, and I got to see a lot of fabulous art (old and new) which satisfied my sweet tooth (for now)
I must admit, after seeing a lot of surrealist paintings in person, it made me like them less than before. I dont like surrealists to start off with (to self-centered and dali... oh just dont get me started about him. *gags* guy is phenomenal when it comes to technique though)
point being, I did not enjoy the colors or surfaces of most of the paintings. they seemed to have very few thin layers of paint, which isnt normally a problem, but I ont think that the paintings I saw should have been dopne that way. they just needed like two more coats of tinted glaze in some areas, and THEN I think they would have been way more enjoyable. Of course, the subject matter was not enjoyable... that's another story.
surrealism was great for it's time because it was something new and what not, but when people try to revive it (or worship dali and his art movement), it irritates me...
I saw a sargent painting, and I wasnt as excited as I would have been if I had seen it two weeks before. I talked to alexander, and he told me to quit looking at him and look at fischl more. he gave me an amazing compliment, too, saying that he thought what I was doing with the figure was a lot more ineteresting than sargent (notice, though, he did not say i was better nor technique was better or anything like that... if I was better, I wouldnt be at slu still, i would be in New york making big bucks...)
point bieng, my conversation with him changed the way I think (yet again) about figure paintings, and Im kinda like "ok, I came, I saw, and I might not have conquered, but I surely as hell need to move on" type of thing... being an artist is so wonderful because we are always developing who we are and what we do... wow.
im so tired and i dont know if anything makes sense. sorry if it's confusing