tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post8415465073555262309..comments2024-03-02T17:35:58.818-08:00Comments on Spike is Best: The ExhibitionPaul Stilwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-78125010082775775482010-07-29T17:26:14.654-07:002010-07-29T17:26:14.654-07:00Enbrethiliel, dang it. A half joke leaves a lot of...Enbrethiliel, dang it. A half joke leaves a lot of 'serious' in there doesn't it?<br /><br />Or am I kidding now?Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-59597662294305079402010-07-29T00:52:56.626-07:002010-07-29T00:52:56.626-07:00Thanks for that link, Terry. Oh, I really like the...Thanks for that link, Terry. Oh, I really like the artist's work!Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-48978233780283957442010-07-28T09:33:14.309-07:002010-07-28T09:33:14.309-07:00Paul - thanks. I just came across this painter wh...Paul - thanks. I just came across this painter whose work reminds me of yours somehow - see what you think:<br /><br />http://artinconnu.blogspot.com/2010/07/aime-barraud-1902-1954.htmlTerry Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819523933502820341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-48574417398614537112010-07-28T05:15:48.636-07:002010-07-28T05:15:48.636-07:00+JMJ+
It's probably a good thing you told me ...+JMJ+<br /><br />It's probably a good thing you told me you were half joking because the idea appealed very greatly to my lower nature. I was already plotting ways I could take pictures without being shooed away. =PEnbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-10630805798949297622010-07-28T01:03:37.227-07:002010-07-28T01:03:37.227-07:00Sort of lends a literal sense to the phrase, "...Sort of lends a literal sense to the phrase, "I got landed with the roommate from hell." The drawing of the horns stabbing the face's own eyes does sound comedic, but very troubling (okay, nausea-inducing) at the same time. No doubt she would take "troubling" as a high compliment.<br /><br />The sundered contact means nothing compared to the prayers she'll have from you.<br /><br />I feel proud of myself that I already read that article at Fully Booked earlier when you linked to it at Shredded Cheddar!<br /><br />Cablog likes his nudes as much as your former roommate likes her skulls. I like his use of flamboyant folk colour, and the solid dignity. I'm still very unresolved about the whole Nudity Deal in Art.<br /><br />BTW, I was half joking when I said to pretend that you had no idea about taking photos in a gallery if they told you you couldn't do it. I really wouldn't want you to lie. And don't feel obligated to photograph in the galleries, as much as I would love to see them.<br /><br />I liked that story. I should try some searches using "fish vendors".Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-52493762033264856632010-07-27T07:15:29.104-07:002010-07-27T07:15:29.104-07:00+JMJ+
No, the skull used for her avatar isn't...+JMJ+<br /><br />No, the skull used for her avatar isn't the same one in our room, but it might as well be! =P I begged her to take her art down; she refused. And then she offered to do a tarot card reading for me. Fun, fun, fun!!!<br /><br />My "favourite" drawing of hers--which always made everyone laugh when I described it, though I didn't see what was funny--featured an androgynous, angular, chalky face with a forked horn protruding from its forehead and twisting back to stab it in the eyes. <br /><br />She is actually another person who wanted to write a story/graphic novel with me, after we were no longer roommates. When she was done explaining the plot, I found an excuse to log off and then blocked her on the messenger progamme forever. (Me bad friend.)<br /><br />I'm not sure when I can get to a gallery, but here is something online. Last year, I got to interview the guy who painted these:<br /><br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/jefcablog/<br /><br />He has made a name for himself for expressing the culture of the mountain tribes in his area.<br /><br />(Since I'm totally into plugging myself, my article is here: http://www.fullybookedonline.com/media/inprint/fullybookedzine%20Jun%20Jul%202009.pdf . . . and okay, <i>that</i> is one bit of writing that I will kick myself over for many years to come.)<br /><br />Cablog is very different from both you and Terry, definitely. (And odd, I don't seem to remember so many topless women the first time around. Hmmmmm.)<br /><br />When I first found your blog and you had that Beckmann painting of fish, I tried to remember the name of a Filipino artist who likes putting fish into everything he paints, whether or not it belongs. He became well known for painting women fish vendors. Once, when a grand lady commissioned a portrait of herself, she made the special request that he not exhibit it next to a painting of a fish vendor. So he exhibited it between <i>two</i> paintings of fish vendors. (Heh-heh.) I still can't remember who he is, though.Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-59427344212041157012010-07-27T02:19:22.135-07:002010-07-27T02:19:22.135-07:00E, I'm pushing you to enter more things.
Well...E, I'm pushing you to enter more things.<br /><br />Well, over the internet is not so convincing a push I guess...but I'm serious.Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-40375358629859348222010-07-27T02:10:24.683-07:002010-07-27T02:10:24.683-07:00Terry, my best wishes for your entry next month.
...Terry, my best wishes for your entry next month.<br /><br />The writing in this post was mainly my emotional frustration with there seeming to not be any real culture here. It's like there is just the facsimile of culture. For this vacuity I think I assigned the absent artists as a kind of metaphor in my mind. Of course, I was being presumptuous in the extreme, saying "arrogant indifference", since they could have been absent for all manner of real reasons.<br /><br />And I do consider low self-esteem (for want of a better word; I know what you mean by it, and that it is not merely its pyschological implication) a real reason; if only because I am well-acquainted with it, in life. Though I would not presume to think mine is as yours in every respect...it's just that I know and understand what your saying through my own experience.<br /><br />I know that if I overheard people say the same thing about one of my paintings at an exhibition, I would have no trouble believing their words, *but* I would probably struggle mightily with resentment, because there is pride in me.Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-3438571599456586212010-07-27T01:27:32.336-07:002010-07-27T01:27:32.336-07:00Your biased appraisal, Enbrethiliel, is all I need...Your biased appraisal, Enbrethiliel, is all I need to hear. At least according to my biased opinion.<br /><br />Oh dear Lord, please don't tell me the skull that was in the room is the same used for her avatar. I used to draw dark stuff - perhaps from the subconscious - though it never got into the seriously scary. I remember going to my friend's house, whose mother and grandmother are artists, to show my drawings. I had received some lessons from his mother. His grandmother is from Brazil and she's a sort of "sensitive". I remember her not even mentioning anything about the drawings, and she said to me as she pointed out the window at some ducks they owned: "You need to draw things outside of yourself". Not that that was a turning point or anything.<br /><br />I'd love to see some pictures from galleries over there. What's the worse that could happen? They tell you to stop taking photos, and then you pretend like you had absolutely no idea!<br /><br />LOL to your brother's reactions. All of the reactions. Really, the first three are indeed as accurate as you can get. You know, I took a photo of the artist's lengthy, abstractly verbose commentary for the first place painting. I decided not to post it, but oh, how I would love to show it, then have your brother's words after it: "Hey! It's a bunny! And there's a flying duck! And a dinosaur head!"<br /><br />There's nothing like the truth.Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-45691876592754001412010-07-26T21:49:25.022-07:002010-07-26T21:49:25.022-07:00+JMJ+
Terry's comment reminds me of why I no ...+JMJ+<br /><br />Terry's comment reminds me of why I no longer write "serious" fiction or poetry. <br /><br />A few months ago, I was musing that I no longer have the knee-jerk <i>"Oh, man, that's <b>awful</b>!"</i> reaction to writing I've done since I started blogging, which I saw as a sign of progress. But a few <i>weeks</i> ago, I admitted to myself that my blogging isn't also my <i>writing</i>. So I've been hiding.<br /><br />At least the winners (and you and Terry) get your real work out there. I wish I had a friend pushing me to enter more things.Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-56404872330244924472010-07-26T20:48:08.688-07:002010-07-26T20:48:08.688-07:00I do not like or 'get' the winners.
I lik...I do not like or 'get' the winners.<br /><br />I like your painting very much - but I think I told you that before.<br /><br />I'm entering a piece in a juried show next month. I normally don't tell people when I do that because I don't want to be embarrassed if it is rejected. I have never won beyond Honorable Mention. <br /><br />I really have extrememly low self-esteem - I know that is lame to say - but I never go to openings or the announcement of winners because I'm embarrassed since I think my work isn't very good. (A friend always pushes me to enter something.) <br /><br />Once I went to a show my piece won an award in and I stood back while people walked by, I heard comments like, "Why would this be honored?" <br /><br />I honestly wondered why as well.Terry Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819523933502820341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-38993201712172739802010-07-26T05:03:04.245-07:002010-07-26T05:03:04.245-07:00+JMJ+
I made my little brother look at your photo...+JMJ+<br /><br />I made my little brother look at your photos. These are his reactions . . .<br /><br />First Place Winner:<br /><br /><i>"Hey! It's a bunny! And there's a flying duck! And a dinosaur head!"</i><br /><br />Second Place Winner:<br /><br /><i>"That's a painting???"</i><br /><br />Honourable Mention:<br /><br />*silence*<br /><br />Your Painting:<br /><br /><i>"Food! . . . That's celery, right?"</i><br /><br />The Landscape:<br /><br /><i>"I like that one! It's nice."</i><br /><br />The Skull:<br /><br /><i>"AWESOME!"</i><br /><br />Anyway, I'm sorry that my brother doesn't know his vegetables, but at least he was spot on about the first three winners, right? =PEnbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-80279062411563576282010-07-26T02:16:43.474-07:002010-07-26T02:16:43.474-07:00+JMJ+
We all know I'm totally biased, but I l...+JMJ+<br /><br />We all know I'm totally biased, but I like your painting the best. <br /><br />It's even better than the one with the oranges. <br /><br />And oh, my--that skull! I once had a roommate who liked to draw monsters and seriously scary stuff and put them up on our walls.<br /><br />Oh, look: she's on Deviant Art! <br /><br />http://lyvon.deviantart.com/<br /><br />Some of the stuff in her gallery was on our wall first! Anyway, I kind of like that skull in your gallery more than the skull that was in our room.<br /><br />Anyway, I'd make the rounds of some galleries over here and take some pictures for you (because I think you'd actually like some of the paintings), but I don't think people are allowed to take photos. =)Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.com