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on Friday, February 24th, rn5VYyC5B3 said
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on Thursday, February 23rd, Kathleen Heger said
It is so important that when you purchase anything that you buy what you love and what evokes a feeling from deep within you. How boring to hang paintings in your home or office that give nothing back to you!
Isn't it so much more than having someone put paint on a canvas for you?
As an artist, there are three main reasons why I choose what I create. One, I am inspired to show a specific side of a personality. Two, I want to transform what many may look at as ordinary to what I am actually seeing. Three, I want to pass on a particular feeling or mood that a subject projects to me.
I don't always explain why I painted a specific painting. It's a pleasure to see or hear someone really get it though. I'm smiling as I type this because a few months ago I was able to see the reaction and listen to people comment on one of my painting without knowing I was the artist. That was an experience that I would have to describe as more than excellent. To have someone stop short and lose their breath over one of my paintings, made my heart feel good. They got it.
I don't put pressure on myself that I have to sell what I am creating either. What I create comes from within. If one does not sell, it is fine. It had to come out of me anyway. But I may think to myself, "Oh well, works for me."
I have also used the comparison that my paintings are my children. I put myself into them so they are really all little pieces of me and have my unconditional love. Knowing once they leave my hands that they will be loved by a new owner and viewed by the people for years to come (people dipping their toes into that river that Igor describes) is what it is all about.
Thanks for the great article and comments.
on Wednesday, February 22nd, Hyacinthe Baron said
on Monday, February 20th, Hyacinthe Baron said
Michael do you experience these "inspirations" to possess works of art when you see art works on the internet?
on Tuesday, February 21st, Paul said
Igor,my paintings too are my children,but I dont want them,after all I am an unreasonable person,how come? Because Im an artist,I say to my paintings get out go and earn your living,you cant stay around here freeloading off me anymore!
As for inspiration Micheal,my inspiration is everything and everywhere,and its not always visual,a vibe or a feeling about someone or something,but mostly its visual,Im hung up about the way things look.
on Tuesday, February 21st, Jennie Kenneally said
What a wonderful piece, thankyou!
on Tuesday, February 21st, Hyacinthe Barn said
Oh I couldn't agree more, inspiration is about a desire, a need to manifest a reaction to that which is inspiring. Inspiration is the source of the energy that creates the knowledge a'priori that enables the artistic creator to manifest that tangible realization of inspiration.
A collector is simply trying to appropriate vicariously that which has been manifested by a creator who has been inspired.
Stirred by the beauty of the snow scene? Inspired to write a poem. By all means. But one cannot buy inspiration or own another's inspiration for all the money in that river that keeps flowing past. The collector can only encourage the artist through appreciation and acquisition.
I recently bought a piece of art and gave it to my son as a gift because the artist had painted a familiar scene in the forest by our country house, the spot where we visited a meteorite by the brook, and only my son and I had ever seen it.
That work was inspiring, like the flowing river and the beauty of the snow.
on Monday, February 20th, olga said
I may be wrong, But I feel that the word emotional response is better fitting if to talk about buying the art work. Inspiration is about action, creating art.
on Monday, February 20th, Brad Michael Moore said
I own art from a number of known artists, and some should-have-been artists. I own their works, for the fact I feel a sense of 'needing to horde' those pieces like you might your children during a bad storm (there’s a weather-connection). Sometimes, I'm trying to help out a friend (or gallery), - but mostly, I'm being selfish. I want to own another’s work of art because I would be proud, as an artist, to claim (or even just to dream) of that artwork as one of my own making... Who couldn’t say, “I like the good stuff?” In other words – something about the art reflects what I know about who I am, or aspire to. The reflection of what I see before me makes the work feel like a part of my experience. It’s a funny connection between collecting art and being an artist. I’ve never collected for investment. It could be the way it fits in modern interpretation, but it’s mostly because the artist was able to convey an accessible pinnacle of communication.
on Monday, February 20th, Igor Bespalov said
Hyacinthe,
Andrew was close.
"you can't enter the same river twice." This expression in Russian means that everything constantly changes and every moment is unique.
on Monday, February 20th, Andrew said
Hyacinthe, I think...that as the paintings are like children brought to life in a certain moment, in a certain mood, a river which constantly flows to the sea is...always new water.
Michael, the way you speak of 'Art', in that so generic tone, lets me believe that art, for you, is like what the term 'food' is for me. I prefer to try to find great cuisine rather than just food, where cooking reaches the height of an art form. I spend time looking for that. Food is anything, be it a ring ding or caviar. Is everything that anyone wants to call art, art? Let's go to the dictionary...something special, highly developed, beyond the reach of most, a whole slew of definitions and derivatives, all with one common element...that art is not ordinary. To hear you speak of art as if it were 'veggies', not even specifically carrots, beets, cauliflower, or string beans, well that makes me suspicious. I harangued you once for calling yourself a collector and posting on a sight for artists, knowing you'd pull. Let's not go back there, since some of your recent blogs have been well worth reading. On this one I notice the biggest draw here has been Igor's comment.
on Monday, February 20th, jose freitas cruz said
Igor, that was truly beautifuly put. inspiring words!
on Monday, February 20th, Hyacinthe Baron said
Igor can you explain what it means that "you can't enter the same river twice."
on Monday, February 20th, Hyacinthe Baron said
Michael do you experience these "inspirations" to possess works of art when you see art works on the internet?
on Monday, February 20th, Igor Bespalov said
Why would any reasonable person think or don’t think about something that undoubtfully would not be accepted by the public, no matter how much you want it, or how much you desire it.
Usually when you are going home late at night you look at the lights in the windows of your home. Someone is waiting for your there. Someone with whom you are going to share your impressions, your thoughts about inspiration.
May be that’s how the light in your soul is born.
This mystery is the process of inspiration.
Painter-artist goes through the life like he is riding a magnificent white horse-inspiration. That is his pride. That is his happiness. That is where he finds consolation.
I found my world and it is unreal. My world is in the flexibility of color, in shapes that I transform and improve.
The longer you live, the more you understand and appreciate the flying away moments when you have been different. When you could fly, could understand simple flatness and transform it into a shape, give it a color, and establish yourself on the horizon of great and pure art.
It is known that you can’t enter the same river twice. Therefore, all my paintings are my children that remember my tiredness and my delight. Living in the structure of city blocks, they project my love into eyes of unknown to me spectators. This is my confession and revelation.
