Hoquiam River Bright 10" x 14.75"
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn
Here are some thoughts on painting:
- A painting must become more than the sum of its parts.
- A painting is a history of what happened to the artist.
- An artist should communicate his ethos through his art.
- I believe that a painting should affirm the personal.
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Previous Mind Maps
Map Your Ideas
Another thought-provoking essay, Casey. Your previously published mind map and your list of 100 favorite things about art have both become oft-used models, puzzles of the highest order. Spirit-teasers. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteHaven't gotten to the map/music yet, but while it's loading, that's a lovely painting.
ReplyDeleteFinally saw it; well drawn/said/thought. You're articulating things I've been thinking about succinctly and lucidly.
ReplyDeleteThat painting is devine--the music is too! The Mind map is interesting....I can guess what part is your daughter's idea. haha. Great post. Has me thinking!
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ReplyDeleteThose are finely spun words, SamArtDog - I am humbled by that. Thank you for reading these posts!
ReplyDeleteJean, you are an ever faithful reader, too. I enjoy our interactions here, at yours and at Kathy's blog.
Hey, Celeste! I had to honor my daughter's opinion - there may be more to it than we first think, huh?
Referring to making things pretty: I am aware when I am painting that I have a need to recognize accidental pretty visual connections that just happen. Sometimes I want to enhance these happy accidents and other times I want to scrub them away.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Diane - you are on to one of the subtexts I have been hinting at in this series. I recently posted the video series by Roger Scruton, who is an important philosopher that is taking up the need for beauty in art.
ReplyDeleteHe takes on Duchamp, and I love the way he says, "you-RYE-nal" when he speaks of the ready mades.
love your use of color and shapes!
ReplyDeleteCandylei
Thank you very much, Candy.
ReplyDeleteThinking. Thinking. Thinking. My head might be stuffed with fluff from time to time, but what you say makes sense. More than replicating what is seen, let us see the human filtering of the artist!
ReplyDeletelove the "mind map"! I referred one of my former students to your blog, she used to paint with watercolor but now is doing wonderful pastel work. Your pastels and blog are inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThank you kindly, Robin!
ReplyDeleteKvan - good Pooh riff. I imagine that I couldn't absorb a Kitty Wallis workshop, and a Mind Map from the Twilight Zone all at once.
Thanks for the thought-provoking Artist Ideas posts, Casey. Your focus and comentary has been helpful to me in formalizing some of my own ideas about my work and where I want to go with it. Hoquiam River Bright is a beauty - I'd love to see it in person.
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