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Current mood: artistic
Category: Blogging
I wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season and open my Home/Studio/Gallery to the World for my annual New Years Party. I think we will Dance under the stars and embrace a Good Spirit and forgive everyone of their sins and seek absoulution of our own. I plan to resolve my bad habits that I Love so well, mainly Drugs, Booze, and Cigarettes.
I also want to find a companion this year that wants a Bonding Expierance as well as some sexual gratification occasionally. Life is passing too quickly not to take advantage of these Beutiful Women that pas thru this portal. So if your Hot and Horny and look halfway decent with NO STD's, look me up for some playful encounters. I know Lomi Lomi, Hawaiian Massage. I also have practiced Tantra, and Anchient form of coupling Pleasure and Spirituality for a prolonged period of time without Viagra. So shuck off them panties and climb in my bed. Well, first we will bathe and clean the playground. So, I'm waiting for you, Have you been waiting for me?
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Monday, December 25, 2006
A PRAYER FOR JAMES BROWN
Current mood: quixotic
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
JAMES BROWN DESERVES FORGIVENESS FOR ALL THOSE CRAZY THINGS HE DID. LIKE RUNNING FROM THE POLICE AND NOT STOPPING EVEN AFTER THEY SHOT HIS TIRES OUT. DEAR LORD FORGIVE HIM.
REMEMBER ALL THOSE CANCELLED PERFORMANCES WHEN HE WAS TOO HIGH ON DRUGS? PLEASE,PLEASE, PLEASE DEAR LORD FORGIVE HIM.
OR WHEN HE WAS MEAN AND CRUEL AND KINKY TO ALL THOSE WOMEN OVER THE YEARS. POPPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG AND SNORTING WAY TO MUCH MAKING HIM CRAZY YEARS, DEAR LORD FORGIVE HIM.
AND THE "ANGEL DUST" IN PRISON THAT MADE HIM DO THE THINGS HE ORDINARY WOULDN'T DO. BOYS BECOME GIRLS AND GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN DAZE. OH LORD OH LORD PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, FORGIVE HIM.
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Monday, December 18, 2006
THE POWER OF PRAYER IMBUED ART
Current mood: peaceful
Category: Religion and Philosophy
ALOHA FROM MAUI,
I HAVE COMPLETED ABOUT 60 OIL/CANVAS IMAGES USING THE "HEART" SYMBOL TO REPRESENT "PRAYERS FOR PEACE". I GOT THE IDEA FROM TIBET WHERE THEY HAVE PRAYER WHEELS THAT ARE SPUN TO CREATE THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONS OF PRAYERS FOR PEACE BECAUSE OF THE INTENTION OF THE SPIRIT OF THEIR CREATION, HENCE "PRAYER WHEELS". I HAVE OIL-PAINTINGS THAT WILL RADIATE THEIR INTENTION WHEREVER THEY RESIDE. DURING THIS LIFE I THINK THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SAVE THE PLANET IS "PRAYER" AND A DIRECT INTERVENTION FROM THE ONE TRUE "GOD".
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on Friday, December 22nd, gianlu said
I just want to say , dear Alberto that I agree vith your point and expecially whene you say "If it were up to me, I would close the Academies." but are you sure the you are not the product of your time of your past and of your culture? I also think that we're all linked by the same unpercetible and unperscrutable matter that we call culture, no matter if right or left ( I hate reducing each thing in such a poor discrimination of thoughts ) no matter if is academic or personal, but still culture, and I do not mean to persevere the neverending dicotomy between nature and culture, I call an inner self done by the capacity of every human being to absorbe with his proper mental and spiritual qualities the reality that surround himself.
on Monday, December 18th, jose said
I’ve regained my breath. One point that you mention has kept me thinking longer than the others and I see only Andrew and Gabriella responded to it. I can understand your reluctance to teach within an Academy but I fear you cannot escape being a teacher or a mentor, if only through your words and the example you embody. Thank you.
on Sunday, December 17th, walt said
Yes, quality is subjective. That's why we are always pushing for more of it! If one doesn't strive for the highest then doesn't one undershoot their capabilities?
It's easy to get used to drek. It's all around us. But quality always blows away my expectations and my assumptions. And then I'm inspired again.
What I like most about Alberto's blogs is that he engages us with his interior thoughts as he does with his interior visions through his work.
on Sunday, December 17th, Gabriella Morrison said
Alberto - you have broken your blog into discrete sections, for clarity of understanding. Thank you!
A)Virtuosity vs. self-expression. Lots to mull over here. It is easy to be seduced by virtuosity, but shouldn't virtuosity be the handmaiden of expression, the love and joy of doing, of connecting on an intellectual, sensual, visceral level with other?
B) Recognition of affinities.
An early recognition of what is important to one starts a process of identifying all along life those exemplars which have consonance with one's being at a most basic level. New loves and admirations are added to one's sack of treasured discoveries, from time to time, and these really form a lifelong practice of certain sorts, and their traces are revealed in a body of work one makes over a long period of time. This is natural.
F) Working alone.
One always works alone, but has silent companions along for this journey. These mentors reside in amongst the bits and pieces compiled in one's sack of treasured discoveries.
J) detachment from feelings.
It would be a mistake to detach from one's feelings, were this to be possible. It is through our feelings that we filter what is of importance to value, to express and to, perhaps, share. I would always be more pleased to be partisan, even if often wrong, than to be distanced from what I feel and think. I value art that wears its maker's heart on its sleeve and shares his/her humanity and foibles.
on Sunday, December 17th, mark said
Off the subject here, but does any one know about Hyacinthe Baron, why has she not been writing blogs? I seldom if ever agreed with her but found her blogs fun to reply to. Just wondering.
on Saturday, December 16th, Matt said
A good article that touches on what many have commented.
us.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/11/26/art.globalization/index.html
on Saturday, December 16th, Matt said
I have to agree with Walt about quanity versus quality. Yet, quality is, of course, highly subjective. And Mark, I agree with you that there are many, many more 'artists' today than ever before. Some of it is good and some or perhaps a lot isn't. In the end, as Mark and Oliver suggest, just do regardless of how many others are at it. Those that have something will be noticed and those that don't, well, they create because they enjoy it I would guess...
Happy Hoildays AA bloggers!
on Saturday, December 16th, olivier said
Is there really more artist today than ever before? I think today they are more toll to call yourself an artist if you like to handle brushes or a hammer. In my grand grand mother time most of the stay at home mum used to play with watercolour or oil if they were more ambitious. Let's call ourself painter or carveer or whatever. Art is another dimension. As an antique dealer I can tell how much staff if there available; most often worthless. I can also recall so many painters who had their time and made the news with talent got a nice bio/career and became completly forgotten by today's market . The opposite did happen too from time to time. You're right Mark: who care? Nothing as change at all artist will allways complain. (Most of the small businesses always complain). Complain is an easy way!
Be a painter and have fun! Isn't it all is it about? and more challenging too
I know some by here are really working hard to try to make something out of it. Like our brother indian use to say: Watch for the smoke when you think too much, work hard and leave the good news alone , hips
on Saturday, December 16th, mark said
There are more artists today then ever before, and yes you still see "paintings" everywhere. What is hader I think is that the competition is greater, not always in quality but quantity, plus the added competition of the new medias out there. The modern artist needs to look at different ways to "get out there" I am, and I still have trouble turning on my computer. Plus arts role in sociaty is different today then it was even 50 years ago, it is I suspect a natural evolution of things and one we artists must live with. So let art be what it is today, why waste time about dreaming of by-gone ages (besides artists have always starved). We are in the world we are in and it is up to us to be apart of it, do what we do, try to be seen as best we can and continue to create, as that is what is important. We have much to say to those who what to hear us, and they will listen. Besides I think in time the plastic arts will once more be of greater importance then ever befor. When will that be? I do not know but I feel it.
on Saturday, December 16th, walt said
Joel,
don't mistake quantity for quality. Yes there are far more artists out there today...but do they actually make better art or is it worse than times past? It is a very serious question. Just because there are so many doesn't mean they are equal.
on Saturday, December 16th, Joel Skotak said
Can you really say that art plays a minimal role in today's society? Do you think there are less serious painters today than there were 300 years ago? I bet there's more (> %)Do you think it's any harder to be a successful painter today than 100-300 years ago? I bet it's abit easier because of technology and consumerism. I see technology and te media as a means to improve the art world rater than hurt it. If you do something different, you can get your name out there much easier than before there were cell phones, the internet, and newspapers.
Tre, though, that people may turn to photoshop rather than a traditional canvas, or to a camera or digital video. But when I see paintings in every restaurant and bar, I have to say that art is not being stifled by society, I'd say it's flourishing (of course I live in Austin, a very artsy city).
Don't give up hope, my friend!
on Friday, December 15th, Andrew said
The alternative to academies is the learning that comes from a long relationship between a master and an apprentice. While that does not seem possible to many, it is in fact an ever present possibility for anyone who has the drive to seek such a possibility out. The beauty of being an apprentice is that you can disagree with some of what your master stands by, and still absorb what you feel is valid. Post academy apprenticeships send you into orbit. My question which from what I have experienced of you, I know will remain unanswered, is, did you apprentice to a master? As with what I said in the begining, if I want the answer and you remain silent, all it will take from me is a little drive, effort, and I will have that answer. Your past is a matter of public record.
on Friday, December 15th, olivier said
Alberto I love your paintings, talented you are. Now going back to history you made me think why is that in the early 20th artists made such a strong statement in our world. Most of them in their early years. Talented? yes. Pasionate? yes Ambitious? yes Curious? yes Politically engaged? yes ect.. But you know, don't it has always been like that when you choose an original way of living with your own judgment as a guide? Being a rooster I know what it means to cry high and loud with two feet in the mud. So far the only reason I can find is their ability to avoid thinking too much with excess of liquid substances. Absinth abolition has been of a big damage to the art ideologie. Since then we are in business. Too bad. I still like your work very much.
on Friday, December 15th, walt said
Alberto, you said we seemed to be living in a time when "Man does not need to produce Art." This is the only thing you said with which I have some second thoughts. I think it is clear from the number of schools, websites like this one and art supply stores that there is little reduction of those of us who feel the need to produce art however poor it might be. But if you meant that we do not need to consume art I would agree. This does seem to be a new phenomena. And it is one I cannot fathom since I cannot understand why people ever bought art in the first place. As I've said before why buy it when you can make your own? I simply have no connection to the need to buy, own or consume art in that sense.
As to the politics we had a somewhat similar series of issues here in the States during the middle and end of the last century (1900's.) Only because of the general prosperity I don't think it was quite as important to the arts as has generally been quoted. I think a lot of artists paid a certain lip service to ideological issues while the market for their work was low, because it was the only intellectual discussion going on, only to leave much of it behind when sales were high. There was such a good market for painting after the war well into the 60's here. It began to falter in the 70's. And while art is still fetching high prices in some circles the bottom end has fallen out. Only those with too much money are buying art these days with any relish and the rest can take it or leave it. Well, the causes have been discussed at least at a philosophical level already. But we still have a generation of young artists who have the sense that all they have to do is spill some paint on a canvas sign, their name and they will begin to sell enough to live. You and I both know that is not the case.
As to the academies? Having been a teacher all these years I've become somewhat fond of it. But if they were to go away tomorrow I could find another way to live. And maybe you are right...art might be the better for it because then only the driven would pursue the dream.
As always, your comments are much appreciated. And it is always good to see a new Alberto Sughi I haven't seen before.
on Friday, December 15th, jose said
I am left breathless, and speechless. Bravo, Alberto, Bravo!
on Thursday, December 14th, mark said
Alberto,
So much to ponder in your blog.
A) Does one need a talent to think of working in a particular art form? I had no talent, no gift of drawing or painting, but what I had was imagination and a desire (I figured this out only a short time ago) to create my own world. With this I became an artist, a painter. When others say to me "It must be nice to have a God given talet," I reply. "God had nothing to do with it." So those who have no special bent toward an art form, do it anyway, you never know where it might take you.
F-1) Art schools? I am not so sure you are not right there, but then this comes from an individual who hated school from the first day to the last. I learned to paint and to be creative and find my way through the hard work of hundreds of other artists, only a few whom I have met (as most are dead) but all who inspired me to be more. The irony here is that even with my dislike of schooling I now teach painting. I am told though, that, is what makes me a good teacher. I am sure my students are just being kind. I guess art schools can have their place, I just think not to much stock should be placed on them and after the lessons are done the student should leave it behind and become the artist, and think for themselves.
H) I think the old world of art is now over-shadowed by the modern media, movies, TV, video games and yes, even this tool we are using now, the computer. Is it a bad thing? I don't know, doesn't matter anyway because what will be will be. Maybe one day the world will look to the old arts as desirable and flock to us to full-fill their needs, maybe. Still it doesn't matter as I for one will paint, what else to do? Dig ditches? Don't think so!
Wish I could respond to all you have said but, well, no time now. Thank you for an intersting blog.
Take care. We paint.
A) There are various reasons why a young man may choose to take up the challenge of painting, poetry or music. A natural talent for writing, a natural ear for music, or hands that have a natural ability to draw can help you take that first step; but this does not, in itself, determine whether you will become a painter, poet or musician. 
