artPosted by Dusanka 08 Mar, 2009 13:10Helene She is very close to my heart as being an artist of both great power
and great weakness. There were moments in my own art-life when I felt
blessed and moments when I felt limited because I am a women.
It is not known if E. Munch knew about work of Helene, but she knew
about hem. "Something about his feeling is strange to me. But women
feel different".
I agree with her complitely.
"Helene Schjerfbeck is one of Scandinavia's most acclaimed female
painters of all time. An outsider plagued by ill-health her entire
life, the artist's work spans a journey from national romanticism and
intensely coloured still lifes to almost abstract self-portraits of a
frail woman nearing her death."
artPosted by Dusanka 03 Mar, 2009 13:18James
Abbott McNeill Whistler
http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/html/jmw.htm
"Whistler's
collection of letters and pamphlets on art, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies,
was published by William Heinemann in 1890…Another book recorded a lawsuit
against Sir William Eden in 1898 which resulted in a change to French law,
giving artists control over their work."
For this blog I like to represent my new painting together with words of Whistler. When I look at this painting I can only think on poetry of that place. I used the elements from nature to create the feeling, that feeling Whistler named poetry.
"As music is
the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject-matter
has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of colour.
Nature
contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard
contains the notes of all music.
But the
artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements,
that the result may be beautiful-as the musician gathers the notes, and forms
his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony.
To say to
the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say the player, that
he may sit on the piano."
Symphonie in blue
oil on canvas 120x100
artPosted by Dusanka 24 Feb, 2009 14:31Idea and
the creation of the painting Background
During the
Christmas holidays we went to National Museum in Leiden. There was some work of
artist Bierenbroodspot we wanted to see, but while walking around in the museum I came across the Greek head.
Her beauty
moved me deeply and I decided to make a painting.
First I
found a board from old table and I limed a peace of linen. I prepared the whole
background, linen and the board around it with transparent gesso. My wish was
to play with the two meanings of word background. For background as surface I created
two different backgrounds, one rough (linen) and one glossy (board) and for
background as origin (my Greek grandmother) I needed to paint the head.
I needed to
concentrate to work very slowly and carefully as I wanted to make head coming
out (without any drawing) and linen needed to be untouched and clean on some
places. For somebody like me (I get dirty even if I think of paint and colour)
this was really a big challenge.
artPosted by Dusanka 24 Feb, 2009 12:38Nu dat de opening achter de rug is kan ik mijn gedachten ordenen.
Het werk gaat door na een leuk tussenstap.
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