Comments for http://www.artazine.org Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:14:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Who is responsible for ARTs education? by Raette Meredith by eugene cantera http://www.artazine.org/2010/08/who-is-responsible-for-arts-education-by-raette-meredith/comment-page-1/#comment-321 eugene cantera Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:14:14 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=1282#comment-321 It's up to music educators to be creative and reach larger audiences. To that end I give you www.discoverlearnandplay.com - our group rates allow access to an online curriculum for $1 per student per month. We're doing our part to make professional music education and support available for as many people as possible. If we put our minds together and think outside the box - anything is possible! It's up to music educators to be creative and reach larger audiences. To that end I give you http://www.discoverlearnandplay.com - our group rates allow access to an online curriculum for $1 per student per month. We're doing our part to make professional music education and support available for as many people as possible. If we put our minds together and think outside the box - anything is possible!

]]> Comment on Who is responsible for ARTs education? by Raette Meredith by Lorena Bowser http://www.artazine.org/2010/08/who-is-responsible-for-arts-education-by-raette-meredith/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Lorena Bowser Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:56:34 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=1282#comment-319 Bravo! You've said it: It's time we stopped depending on the government to do everything for us. In fact, we never should have in the first place, and now it's clear why. The arts (as everything else that we hold important in our lives) can be supported by our own efforts - All the arts, and may I add, foreign languages, have long been proven to expand our minds and make us better able to deal with the challenges life gives us. Of all of these, music is the one "par excellence," universally understood, and clearly a major part of a healthy life. Thank you, Artazine, for providing a great resource to teachers of the arts, and thank you, Raette, for giving us Artazine! Bravo! You've said it: It's time we stopped depending on the government to do everything for us. In fact, we never should have in the first place, and now it's clear why. The arts (as everything else that we hold important in our lives) can be supported by our own efforts - All the arts, and may I add, foreign languages, have long been proven to expand our minds and make us better able to deal with the challenges life gives us. Of all of these, music is the one "par excellence," universally understood, and clearly a major part of a healthy life. Thank you, Artazine, for providing a great resource to teachers of the arts, and thank you, Raette, for giving us Artazine!

]]> Comment on The Overly-Creative Hoarder by Lita http://www.artazine.org/2010/08/overly-creative-hoarder/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Lita Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:46:09 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=1205#comment-310 You are Preaching to the Choir my Creative OCD/ ADD Sister you!! I'm feeling your strain! Chug-a-chugga-chuga-chug-chug! Keep your train on the track, I know it is the Siderails that get ME EVERY TIME!! :) You are Preaching to the Choir my Creative OCD/ ADD Sister you!! I'm feeling your strain! Chug-a-chugga-chuga-chug-chug! Keep your train on the track, I know it is the Siderails that get ME EVERY TIME!! :)

]]> Comment on Art and Motherhood by artazine editor http://www.artazine.org/2010/08/art-and-motherhood/comment-page-1/#comment-295 artazine editor Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:40:49 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=1253#comment-295 I love this post. I actually started my art career when my youngest was an infant. I realized when she was born that finishing the laundry was not as fulfilling as I had hoped it would be, simply because the minute I finished folding and putting away, more was filling the washer. My sister told me "don't try to find fulfillment in daily chores, because they never end." That day I picked up my pencil again. I auctioned my drawing on Ebay and sold it. Then I decided to try again. I was just drawing what I was interested in. Again it sold. I decided that I had no excuse to not draw or paint. I committed to one hour of "me time" to paint each day. I would set my timer so I wouldn't get carried away. Before I knew it I was selling every single painting I created. I wasn't making profit at that point. Ebay has since changed their fee structure and a profit may be made by now, but I was fired up because I knew there was a market for my work. I decided to get active locally and try to sell around town. I started making money and even though I have three kids, I can say I have been professionally selling my art since my youngest was born. Even if I only have 30 minutes, I can make time to paint. Painting is my sanity and now my career. Moms who want to create simply have to be more creative with thier time. Schedule it in. No interruptions for 30 minutes, 45 minutes, whatever it takes. Keep creating. You never know, your children will be raised around creativity and will learn from you. Even if they learn that they don't want to be an artist, they will have that valuable exposure. Bring out their paints at the same time you paint. Let them ask you questions. Talk about what you are doing. Your kids learn by watching you. Parenting doesn't mean giving up who you are, it means sharing what you know. I love this post. I actually started my art career when my youngest was an infant. I realized when she was born that finishing the laundry was not as fulfilling as I had hoped it would be, simply because the minute I finished folding and putting away, more was filling the washer. My sister told me "don't try to find fulfillment in daily chores, because they never end." That day I picked up my pencil again. I auctioned my drawing on Ebay and sold it. Then I decided to try again. I was just drawing what I was interested in. Again it sold.
I decided that I had no excuse to not draw or paint. I committed to one hour of "me time" to paint each day. I would set my timer so I wouldn't get carried away. Before I knew it I was selling every single painting I created.
I wasn't making profit at that point. Ebay has since changed their fee structure and a profit may be made by now, but I was fired up because I knew there was a market for my work. I decided to get active locally and try to sell around town. I started making money and even though I have three kids, I can say I have been professionally selling my art since my youngest was born.
Even if I only have 30 minutes, I can make time to paint. Painting is my sanity and now my career.
Moms who want to create simply have to be more creative with thier time. Schedule it in. No interruptions for 30 minutes, 45 minutes, whatever it takes.
Keep creating. You never know, your children will be raised around creativity and will learn from you. Even if they learn that they don't want to be an artist, they will have that valuable exposure. Bring out their paints at the same time you paint. Let them ask you questions. Talk about what you are doing. Your kids learn by watching you.
Parenting doesn't mean giving up who you are, it means sharing what you know.

]]> Comment on What’s Wrong with Beautiful Art? by Lorena Bowser by Glenn Parton http://www.artazine.org/2010/08/1221/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Glenn Parton Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:22:01 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=1221#comment-292 I agree that the essential purpose of art is to express creativity and beauty, but I think that in doing this authentic art also reveals a critical function in that it "contradicts" the established, ugly social reality. This radical, subversive, revolutionary purpose of art is seldom appreciated. In other words, art is not only the appearance of a better world, but also a social agent for achieving a better world. I agree that the essential purpose of art is to express creativity and beauty, but I think that in doing this authentic art also reveals a critical function in that it "contradicts" the established, ugly social reality. This radical, subversive, revolutionary purpose of art is seldom appreciated. In other words, art is not only the appearance of a better world, but also a social agent for achieving a better world.

]]> Comment on What’s Wrong with Beautiful Art? by Lorena Bowser by Phil Dynan http://www.artazine.org/2010/08/1221/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Phil Dynan Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:50:34 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=1221#comment-291 Great piece Lorena! and very relevant. I'd like to throw in one other "concept" I've given a lot of thought. Especially around these parts (, far Northern Ca. which I think you are somewhat familiar with) the so called "artists", for the most part, do not even consider "creativity" of any importance whatsoever. The local art club (100 members) - again, for the most part, sit around and copy things out of magazines, off the internet, etc. I had about 8 of them come for drawing classes and none of them would draw from life - and only wanted to copy from magazines. We had the parents of a teenager come in and the mother was reduced to tears telling us how her daughter - a creative genius by her account - was absolutely bashed about by the art club and told she was not allowed to draw things from her mind. She was instructed, at a club meeting, to draw a tree from a photo in a magazine... "until she got it right". What I keep coming back to in my mind is that early artists wanted to create a picture of a person they knew, or an animal they had slain, or a place they wanted to remember. There was no other way - until the invention of the camera - to do this. But with the invention of the camera, there was no longer any need for this and creativity "should" have become more important. Instead, if you believe what you read in most "art" magazines and at most "art clubs" I've spoken to, creativity has a very limited significance. People will say "I don't understand this art" or "I don't know what it means" or, worse, "it makes my head hurt to think about this". My feeling, quite honestly, is that the camera made "realism" (in painting) redundant...but the concept just hasn't caught up with the masses yet. I haven't sold any single paintings for a million - but I have made millions from my work. I have always followed my heart. BUT, I also love running, cycling and cats...and I believe thatinjecting those things I love has helped me sell work. My goal is always to make people happy and that seems to work - except for the collectors. My collectors want work that celebrates an event or that was serigraphed with 100 colours. They want work as an investment, not necessarily to view. And I think that is where you find the reasoning for the Warhol and Pollock (and even Richard Diebenkorn, in my opinion) high sales figures on relatively pointless "art". Tough break for many that the camera was invented, those trying to copy what a camera already does...well, pretty pointless...no matter how "skilled" they are. PS. I would like to add something more positive to this, so I want to say that my favourite artist is David Hockney and I believe his work has the elements of creativity, representation, colour, and skill all present in his work. I think this is rare and if he gets a million (or more) for a painting, I'd be all for it!!! Great piece Lorena! and very relevant.

I'd like to throw in one other "concept" I've given a lot of thought. Especially around these parts (, far Northern Ca. which I think you are somewhat familiar with) the so called "artists", for the most part, do not even consider "creativity" of any importance whatsoever. The local art club (100 members) - again, for the most part, sit around and copy things out of magazines, off the internet, etc. I had about 8 of them come for drawing classes and none of them would draw from life - and only wanted to copy from magazines.
We had the parents of a teenager come in and the mother was reduced to tears telling us how her daughter - a creative genius by her account - was absolutely bashed about by the art club and told she was not allowed to draw things from her mind. She was instructed, at a club meeting, to draw a tree from a photo in a magazine... "until she got it right".

What I keep coming back to in my mind is that early artists wanted to create a picture of a person they knew, or an animal they had slain, or a place they wanted to remember. There was no other way - until the invention of the camera - to do this. But with the invention of the camera, there was no longer any need for this and creativity "should" have become more important. Instead, if you believe what you read in most "art" magazines and at most "art clubs" I've spoken to, creativity has a very limited significance. People will say "I don't understand this art" or "I don't know what it means" or, worse, "it makes my head hurt to think about this".

My feeling, quite honestly, is that the camera made "realism" (in painting) redundant...but the concept just hasn't caught up with the masses yet.

I haven't sold any single paintings for a million - but I have made millions from my work. I have always followed my heart. BUT, I also love running, cycling and cats...and I believe thatinjecting those things I love has helped me sell work. My goal is always to make people happy and that seems to work - except for the collectors. My collectors want work that celebrates an event or that was serigraphed with 100 colours. They want work as an investment, not necessarily to view. And I think that is where you find the reasoning for the Warhol and Pollock (and even Richard Diebenkorn, in my opinion) high sales figures on relatively pointless "art".

Tough break for many that the camera was invented, those trying to copy what a camera already does...well,
pretty pointless...no matter how "skilled" they are.

PS. I would like to add something more positive to this, so I want to say that my favourite artist is David Hockney and I believe his work has the elements of creativity, representation, colour, and skill all present in his work. I think this is rare and if he gets a million (or more) for a painting, I'd be all for it!!!

]]> Comment on What Color Are You Really? by Lorena Bowser by Lorrena http://www.artazine.org/2010/06/what-color-are-you-really-by-lorena-bowser/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Lorrena Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:31:26 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=1013#comment-202 Oh yeah---it's me Lorrena Bowser-Beat Oh yeah---it's me Lorrena Bowser-Beat

]]> Comment on What Color Are You Really? by Lorena Bowser by Lorrena http://www.artazine.org/2010/06/what-color-are-you-really-by-lorena-bowser/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Lorrena Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:29:44 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=1013#comment-201 Lorena-I really enjoyed this article. When I was 12 or 13, I saw my first aura, but it was yellow-green. It surrounded my mom. The really cool thing is that if you have a person stand infront of a white wall, the aura is even brighter. Thanks for the read Lorena-I really enjoyed this article. When I was 12 or 13, I saw my first aura, but it was yellow-green. It surrounded my mom. The really cool thing is that if you have a person stand infront of a white wall, the aura is even brighter. Thanks for the read

]]> Comment on Color Me Pink! I’m Happy – by Lorena Bowser by Lorena Bowser http://www.artazine.org/2010/05/color-me-pink-im-happy-by-lorena-bowser/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Lorena Bowser Tue, 11 May 2010 15:32:01 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=902#comment-139 Since writing this article, I've changed to blue and green. But I keep "pink" inside. Highly recommended! Since writing this article, I've changed to blue and green. But I keep "pink" inside. Highly recommended!

]]> Comment on Bravura is Coming! by Lorena Bowser http://www.artazine.org/2010/04/bravura-is-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Lorena Bowser Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:04:59 +0000 http://www.artazine.org/?p=866#comment-119 And I'm in San Diego! No fair! And I'm in San Diego! No fair!

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