Do you ever feel like you are on the edge of something important?… The problem is that I am excited but worried – what if I don’t or can’t do whatever it is I obviously need to do? what if this thing that is going to happen doesn’t because I am afraid, or too sore or something?
Indeed, art (and the inherent beauty of art forms) remains the most vivid example of nudity’s ability to move artistic mediums to new levels…. Admittedly, my work is not designed for shock value, it’s more a beauty and sensuality thing, but if we lose our wonder at seeing things then that can only be detrimental to art. When we are bombarded with images, we start to filter them out in our heads, if that starts to happen with nudity – will we miss out on some of the great pleasures in life?… as the filters start growing there may be more room rather than less for broader images of nudity, an opportunity to stand out from the plasticized perfect images to provide the reality that audiences crave..
*sigh* My swelling is up so high I feel like I am lying on a hot water bottle…. I wouldn’t mind but I am already planning my next one and I have ideas pouring out of my….. I don’t know what I would do without my little sketch book, when the pain gets so bad I want to cry I pick up my book and pencil and escape for a while.
Where The Girls Aren’t by Jerry Saltz: The programmatic exclusion of women is partly attributable to the art world’s being a self-replicating organism: It sees that the art that is shown and sold is made mainly by men, and therefore more art made by men is shown and sold. This is how the misidentification, what Adorno called a “negative system,” is perpetuated.I have been watching the trends on this with alarm, it is a true fact that women are under-represented in the art industry…. maybe we need to set aside our fears and worries about our babies and send them off to the galleries with a packed lunch, cry and then be proud that something we gave birth to is doing so well.
Suddenly Sunday is looking a LOT closer.. Yesterday, I had plenty of time.. now? no time! but I think I will be done anyways. even if it kills me. I want these works to shine, they are looking like a great group and I really want them to look polished and finished. oh ye gods!…
Well, I lost the long battle with the lurgy. it has invaded my system and is making me do sweet FA. 🙄 I am in pretty good shape for the show and the amazing power of painting that helps me to ignore my pain also helps me ignore being sick. I am trying not to…
I was thinking, last night as I was painting, about art sales, confidence and the nature of art sales. It’s impossible to know what any given person is going to like. You never know which work is going to speak to whom, or why, or how. It occurred to me that I am not creating…
I don’t know what else to call it. I have been painting every night and it has generally been going well up until Thursday night. You see I have had a painting in my mind that has been torturing me, It wants to get out. the first time I tried to do it I gave…
And to answer the often unasked question, “Yes, you can still have it all, no matter what others in your life might think, say or do.”… The Universe Sure, I’d keep your studio, but the hula hoops, tutus and sparkly suits…? I always get a bit of a lift from them, they are inspirational but not soppy and frequently have random silliness.
From Flesh to Poetry: “The nude is not the subject of subject of art, but a form of art.” So wrote Kenneth Clark, who distinguished in his great 1956 book “The Nude” between a naked body — that is, one merely caught without clothes on — and a nude, “the most complete example of the transmutation of matter into form.” I just love this quote. It’s a beautiful definition of the nude art form.
Jennie's Palette 