Not all doom and gloom
End of the week and whilst not exactly a beacon of happiness and light I'm not as gloomy as the previous post.
I think I do far too much thinking and not enough doing of my many ideas.
Instead of thinking I need to be doing...
I went to the Affordable Art Fair on Thursday where a mind-numbing 120 galleries had stands after 2/3 of it my brain had overload. It's interesting the galleries that came from near the coasts or countrysides had work that dealt with the sea or bovine and feline subjects.
But what I was able to see in most works that were painted be they figurative or abstract were the influences of artists like Rothko, Diebenkorn, Chagall, Warhol, Lichenstein writ large upon the work...
I don't know if this ability to see the influences is a hindrance or an advantage.
I met a lovely girl called Violet working for a gallery at one stand and got chatting to her for quite a while, if I had more courage I would have tried to get a number and asked her out for a drink but she has my card now. After all why ruin the ego boost of talking to her although it is her job to talk to all potential buyers by getting shot down in a public place. Are art fairs for picking up girls? I'm sure some artists have by being there with their work.
So on show were the good, the bad and the ugly...I really need to make more art.
I still feel embarassed when people say that I am an artist. I don't tell people that I am an artist, when does one actually say that they are? Yet other people say that I am or introduce me as one. I have seen some truly awful artwork in my lifetime and those artists seem to make some money from it, is an artist measured by financial success that justifies his or her place in the world. Then again Van Gogh was a financial failure in his lifetime but his conviction in himself as an artist drove him on.
It is self-doubt that holds me back, I need to be more confident in my work.
Again too much thinking and not enough making and doing of art.
I think I do far too much thinking and not enough doing of my many ideas.
Instead of thinking I need to be doing...
I went to the Affordable Art Fair on Thursday where a mind-numbing 120 galleries had stands after 2/3 of it my brain had overload. It's interesting the galleries that came from near the coasts or countrysides had work that dealt with the sea or bovine and feline subjects.
But what I was able to see in most works that were painted be they figurative or abstract were the influences of artists like Rothko, Diebenkorn, Chagall, Warhol, Lichenstein writ large upon the work...
I don't know if this ability to see the influences is a hindrance or an advantage.
I met a lovely girl called Violet working for a gallery at one stand and got chatting to her for quite a while, if I had more courage I would have tried to get a number and asked her out for a drink but she has my card now. After all why ruin the ego boost of talking to her although it is her job to talk to all potential buyers by getting shot down in a public place. Are art fairs for picking up girls? I'm sure some artists have by being there with their work.
So on show were the good, the bad and the ugly...I really need to make more art.
I still feel embarassed when people say that I am an artist. I don't tell people that I am an artist, when does one actually say that they are? Yet other people say that I am or introduce me as one. I have seen some truly awful artwork in my lifetime and those artists seem to make some money from it, is an artist measured by financial success that justifies his or her place in the world. Then again Van Gogh was a financial failure in his lifetime but his conviction in himself as an artist drove him on.
It is self-doubt that holds me back, I need to be more confident in my work.
Again too much thinking and not enough making and doing of art.
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1 Comments:
definitely too much thinking, but awesome to talk to someone outside your sphere! i love when this happens, just in general. i'm such a recluse and social anxiety is not my friend. and it's totally ok to call oneself an artist and not be creating art directly at that moment.
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