Thursday, April 16, 2020

Chinese Fan





Another item for my growing catalogue (to take the positive, creative view) of availables for artists, my continuing complaint (to take the negative, uncreative view): 
why are there so many details of Nature, so many human artefacts, which are apparently no-go areas for artists? 

You can paint the items in a kitchen, both dead and alive; why can't you paint the items in a lady's boudoir - those gorgeous lipsticks and hair dyes, the details of a lace handkerchief or, as here, those of a fan?

Every artist moans about the paucity of subjects available - when actually they are infinite.

Every artist moans that all they can do is make pictorial anagrams, personalised versions of the same old same old. 

But there are so many options, so much that is different new that enables you to express your deepest inner self, or simply take pleasure from the shapes and colours.

A painting of a set of bookshelves, featuring the spines of all the books you love best. 


Or of your record collection. 


Why not? 


Why does it always have to be a Crucifixion, a nude, the view from your window, or ships at sea? 

Grow the options, fellow artists! Shed the anagrams and grow the options!





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