I painted this afternoon (more of that in my next post) and then went over to The Brooklyn Museum for Target First Saturdays, a program where the Brooklyn Museum and everything in it, is free all evening, there’s food, drink, dancing, movies and lectures.

I saw the Gilbert and George show, which is just about to come down.

There was a lot more to say, but I’m on my IPhone, so less is “more”, and here’s the photos I took, tonight, at The Brooklyn Museum of Art.

On Monday night I was walking home just before dusk and was caught up with how magical everything looked, especially the clouds.  Lately I’ve been sketching whenever I can - it balances out my Web Analytics work and keeps me rooted in what I fundamentally aim, an artist.

In fact, I’d challenge anyone tell me that eyes of an artist aren’t needed in almost any field.  I was at my doctor’s office on a routine visit and I noticed how many people were calling for advice and consultation.  I asked the doctor how he managed to deal with so many people on know what to say over the phone.  The doctor replied: I like to talking to people over the phone, I get to know them and I can pick up things about how they’re doing and what they need just by talking to them.

Especially today, with so much data, so many inputs, so much information hitting us from all sides and even though time and space …. the ability to synthesize, to filter out, to abstract and get the essential meaning ….. it vital in Medicine, as is in Art.

That’s why, when I visited France last month, and stood in front of Cezanne’s mountain in Aix-en-Provence, I remembered how he took in all the data - all that information -and made it his own.   Slavish imitation is not Art…any more than a Doctor rattling off a bunch of medical tests and diagnosis ….. what you want for Doctors and Artists …. is the story….the synthesis … the meaning of what you there for.

Fundamentally, Art is about “seeing” - it always was and it always will be; everything else grafted on it may be valid, or not, but it’s the vision thing….the Artist “sees”…..and that’s where the synthesis arises.

Also, after reading The World Vision of Paul Cezanne and Delacroix’s Journal, I can say that Art about feelings that can’t be verbalized - the images are but heliographs into the feelings of the Artist.