| Stephen S. Vanek artist Dallas, Texas If you are interested in purchasing a painting please contact me at StephenVVV@sbcglobal.net |
The American poet A. R. Ammons once wrote a long improvisational poem on an adding machine tape. He wrote in bursts, highly energized, trusting his impulse, and often doing very little editing or reworking. A writer Daniel Tobin had this response to Ammon’s work: There is no "finality of vision," the creative process, like the ecological process of a dune-swept shore, depends… on "the wider forces," the "enlarging grasps of disorder," out of which order itself is momentarily fastened. On my best days I paint with a similar consciousness allowing the paint and my impulses to take over, not thinking too much, feeling my way through, and always looking at the emerging piece trying to help it become what it wants to become. I'm located in Dallas Texas. For more information please email me at StephenVVV@sbcglobal.net Links I found this interview with abstract artist Sean Scully interesting and inspiring. An analysis of Jackson Pollock artistic influences and development One of my favorite artists; Nicholas De Stael Need a portrait photographer? My wife, Marta has had her photography published in numerous periodicals and websites. You can visit her website at Martaphoto.com. |
What are you doing? Looking. At what? The River. You've never seen enough have you, of that river you looked at all your life? It never does anything twice. It needs forever to be in all its times and aspects and acts. To know it in time is only to begin to know it. To paint it, you must show it as less than it is. That is why as a painter I was never at rest. Now I look and do not paint. This is the heaven of a painter -only to look, to see without limit. It's as if a poet finally were free to say only the simplest things. Given Poems |
Beauty will save mankind.
Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky