I’m enjoying the applications for the iPhone that allow sketching - the transparencies in color are really amazing - and while the precision isn’t there yet - I like the effects I’m getting using a program called IDoodle2Lite
This “sketch” was nearly effortless for me to produce, yet I felt it was expressive of unique choices I’m making - in other words, it’s Art.
By the way, an in a curious way, I’ve beent thinking a lot about why I’m not painting much this summer - and came up with something that I call our “narritative voice” - and wrote a post about it at The Analytics Guru titled - Being Uncritically your own best friend. I also wrote another post today on More on our own nariation which puts forward my philosophy the importance of storytelling to our own consciousness, first.
We decide, I believe, the meaning of the various things that happen to us and those around us, for own lives - and then I also cover, in the later post, how events can be painted by others - to be one way or the other - but how we need to make decisions on our lives based on a naritive that works for us.
And I tried that with painting - which I talked about in the first post - how I portray, to myself, my own activity, or lack of it, this summer, is going to lead to how I want to talk about to others and what choices I actually have before me - in the future.
It might not really be just about Art in New York - but have noticed that objects, services and product placements can be Art, and when I was in The Apple Store, tonight, on Prince Street, in Lower Manhattan, I was reminded of it.
For one thing, every since thing that Apple has produced, is simplified, as if you don’t have to think about it - just go ahead and use it - I give some examples in my video, above.
By the way, I have a bunch of drawings and things like that to scan, so I can put them up here - but even so - I haven’t been painting as much this summer - between traveling and writing to my three blogs, including this one, and working on other types of projects - I’ve often been wondering, what’s the next step for me to take here. Don’t know the answer to that one, not yet, anyway.
Had a hard time doing much artwork lately. Conference travel, speaking with people, speaking at conferences, seems like my art, at this moment.
I was with a friend at the Metropolitan yesterday, looking at Braque, Gaugin and Cezanne. My friend pointed to a Volliard long, rectangular painting and said…. “the people who this painting was about nutured the art life in Parisat the turn of the century”.
I replied “how do you know that”? She said the information was on the card next to the painting, but it really wasn’t
It turned out she knew something I didn’t and chimed in that artists exist and come to be known through the community and influentials in communities. We agreed and disagreed there but then I asked a killer question.
Where are the communities an artist would join now? What is new and exciting now? We both drew a blank.
Nancy popped back with an answer, that Art, since the 1950’s, especially visual art, lost it’s relevancy because there’s nothing truly interesting or exciting about visual art today.
Other artforms have gained while painting has lost, and it is not clear what it means to be an artist, today.
