Well, my auntie, which is mama’s ex-sister-in-law, suggested a book for mama, The Lives of the Artists, and now mama is going bananas over Jasper Johns, Damian Hirst, Cindy Sherman, Richard Serra (said to be the world’s greatest artist right now according to the author, Calvin Tompkins), and more, not so much for what they create but HOW they create it. Fascinating.
I took a look and I must say it is amazing to follow these artists from the conception of a work to the finished product, and often, the process is far more interresting to them than the end piece.
Just to tittilate your artistic sense, have you ever considered making a pice of art with Vaseline and wax, or tapioca, or tons of steel that can appear weightless because of their beautifully crafted wavy shapes through which you can wander?
These artists are more than creative, mama says. Their brains simply work in a different manner from others and what they each perceive as art is simply beyond the scope of most human beings. The use of light, for example, by James Turrell, who is working within a crater near Flagstaff, Arizona to bring billion-year-old light from the stars into, literally, a space he has created inside the crater. There you will see your own shadow from the light from Venus. Oh, boy…He can also create light in which you walk but you don’t know it is changing colors until you are in it!
Well, mama is out of her mind over these guys and woman, because Cindy Sherman is really out there! She makes “people” out of herself and you would never know it was she behind the paraphenalia she uses to become someone else. I’ve put in a few links to these amazing geniuses of art, not all of whom are particularly nice people, but even with their idiosyncrasies, they are forgiven all because of what they have put on the earth that was not there before. Totally unique.
Not easy to do.
I’m getting out my paints tomorrow. I have an idea that mama can squirt paint on a big cookie sheet and I can walk in it and then jump all over the furniture and our living room will be an instand work of art!
I think the Gagosian Gallery will go for it…
I think I have an eye for what is art and what is not.
Chicken is art. And maybe kibble.
Loulou, we think you would make the purrfect work of art! 🙂
Well….shucks…….we’ll see after the couch is done.
Lightly poached salmon is an underrated artistic medium Loulou and all art books tend to be very comfy to have a nice little snooze on, especially if they left in a sun puddle.
Careful if you exhibit your Cookie Sheet art Loulou, the gallery system can eat artists alive!
Luff
Mungo & jet
Yeah, some no good would-be artist like …well…some no good unknown artist is probably buying a sofa RIGHT NOW so that he/she can make MY ART. THAT IDEA IS COPYCATTED, er copyrighted.
Oh, we love chicken art! Kibble art too. We can’t wait to see your living room art from the cookie sheet.
Mama said to tell you the sofa is off-white so ever better!