| Stephen S. Vanek artist Dallas, Texas email: 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 recently won an award for her portrait photography. You can visit her website at Martaphoto.com. |
... "A straight line is easy enough," you hear in a dream,
You smirk at this provocation. Wakng up, you work all night on an endless piece of paper, drawing circle after circle,... Linh Dinh from 13 Between the earth and man arose the leaf. Between heaven and man came the cloud. His life being partly as the falling leaf, and partly as the flying vapour. John Ruskin Modern Painters Design by AR Ammons The drop seeps whole from boulder-lichen or ledge moss and drops, joining, to trickle, run, fall, dash, sprawl in held deeps, to rush shallows, spill thin through heights, but then, edging, to eddy aside, nothing of all but nothing's curl of motion spent. 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 was 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. Wendell Berry from: Sonata at Payne Hollow Given Poems |
Beauty will save mankind.
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