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  Whitewatercolor Senior Member Username: Whitewatercolor Post Number: 299 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dale E. Ziegler, aka Eugene, It was a real treat to open up my "The Artist's Magazine" and find your painting and the paragraph about your life. Great job Artist's Magazine! | ||
Anonymous Painter Unregistered guest |
Congratulations! Your work posted here is uniformly really fine to terrific, so I can't imagine they've picked one that's less than great. ;) | ||
anon for now Unregistered guest |
Hi Griz: I've thought long and hard about this phenomenon. 1. You've certainly said that there is no accounting for taste (Le coeur a sais raisons, que le raison ne connait point! or...the heart has its reasons, whereof reason (logic) knows absolutely nothing.) 2. We may not like a work because it is not "true" but has been done for more pecuniary reasons. This was certainly the case for my painting, which was of a fashionable, expensive shoe. I don't own fashionable shoes, because my foot doctor years ago said "No heels!" and I am almost 6 feet tall so what do I need with heels? But I like painting "objects of desire" for women, because they are colorful and yeah, people buy these up. Mainly the latter. 3. Sometimes our favorite work is our most challenging to others, and the "easier" works are the ones that sell. As we explore, we go into new territory and it may be uncomfortable for others. One of my cousins is a curator of a modern art museum, and she was very dismissive if I liked an "easy" work of one of her exhibits. It may be the opposite for the "great unwashed" that my cuz was grouping me with. They like the easy works and the true artist may despair. I mean, look at the popularity of Mr. Kincaid.... | ||
Lefty New member Username: Lefty Post Number: 7 Registered: 5-2007 |
Congratulations!! Lefty | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 436 Registered: 8-2006 |
Isn't it strange that people often like pieces of our work that we don't consider our best? I suppose it just confirms that we are all unique, with individual tastes and concepts of what is beautiful. In a way, that is reas*uring -- perhaps nothing we do is really wasted but has value to someone! I displayed three works in a recent gallery night, and the one that sold was the one I had thought was least well done. Anyone have any thoughts or explanations concerning this phenomenon? | ||
Joanna Intermediate Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 96 Registered: 10-2006 |
BIG Congrats, Eugene. Absolutely loved the Herr House. Re being not happy about painting they picked. This has happened to me. I figured out, however,that if there is a painting you wouldn't appreciate seeing on a cover, don't send it (if that's possible.) I sent in a bunch to a magazine and yeah, they picked the ONE I wouldn't want. | ||
Marie Senior Member Username: Marie Post Number: 422 Registered: 8-2006 |
That's great news, Eugene! Congratulations! | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 434 Registered: 8-2006 |
An appropriate Christmas present, Eugene! If it's yours, it has to be good, even if it isn't the best! | ||
Whitewatercolor Senior Member Username: Whitewatercolor Post Number: 293 Registered: 10-2006 |
That is wonderful. I noticed that your barn raising painting is mentioned in the newsletter for the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society also. I can't wait to see the article. | ||
Joe Intermediate Member Username: Joe Post Number: 92 Registered: 2-2007 |
Congrats Eugene. I am suprised, no amazed, they are doing something for someone over 25. | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 396 Registered: 8-2006 |
Guess what! I've been selected to be included in an article "Artists Over Sixty" which will be in the March issue of "the Artist's Magazine". It's only one paragraph and a pic of one of my paintings, but this is a first for me, and very exciting. I'm not too happy about the painting they picked-- it's not one of my best. But, hey, you can't have everything.} |
