ART - old and new

[haldir]

I've just spent a most instructive day with my 15yo daughter doin the art galleries in Edinburgh.

She loves Modern Art, as do I. But she hasn't been prepared to take thte time to look at "classical" art until today. It was like shutters lifted from her eyes and she could suddenly see the background/ evolution of where Modern Art is at.

Anyone else had similar experiences?

 

[Samandiriel]

I always feel that way after I view my favorite paintings in person. Once you learn that an artist and art travel in cycles you gain a better appreciation of what is before you.
Glad you were able to experience it with your child, that in itself is wonderful.
Sam

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Started happening to me when I was 4 yrs old. Has been happening to me nearly every day since. It's a pretty cool thing.

 

[haldir]

Sam - I know that you'll appreciate that this was a two way thing. I saw a particular painting today for the first time (other than in books) and it blew me away to see that the artist had re-painted the hat and that the re-painting had added something to the movement in the painting!

Halo - it's not a pretty cool thing it's THE thing.

Thanks to the two of you for joining me here

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Halo - it's not a pretty cool thing it's THE thing.

Thanks to the two of you for joining me here

If you're an artist like myself and a few others here, it's a pretty cool thing amongst a number of pretty cool things. When it boils down to it there is no one thing about well done art that can be considered the cherry on top of the icing. It's all icing supported by a lot of other work and material.

 

[neonlyte]

I've just spent a week working with an artist and some children on an island just off the southwest coast of Ireland. The children were amazing, they had been briefed a month ago to think about a specific area of their lives and given camera's, tape recorders and sketchbooks to record events. What they came up with was astonishing, they are aged 8 - 10. Admittedly their islands background is significantly artisitic so they had the encouragement and support of the community, but the ideas were largely their own and beautifully executed.

Their work will form part of an exhibition in June and they will stage a performance in a ruined abbey on the island under the direction of the artist who is making a video installation of their performance for a larger international project in September. She had a pretty clear idea of what she'd intended to do before visiting the island and seeing the childrens work. Now the childrens vision has helped her crystalise her ideas and changed the substance and nature of the performance.

When this response and enthusiasm happens, you feel you have been given something very special to work with, something to be treasured, nurtured and respected.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I have always had a special and powerful affinity for the painting of the Arnolfini Wedding. I was wandering through a museum in London one day - it was a week day, and the place was nearly empty - and suddenly rounded a corner and found myself looking at it. At IT. The real, actual thing. The Holy Grail of painting.

I just drank it in. For ages. It was a moment I will always remember.