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    Re: Good point -- only critiquing the art! Archived Message

    Posted by Liberal on February 11, 2011, 5:35 pm, in reply to "Good point -- only critiquing the art!"

    Bright colors scare me, because someone has to be good to work around them and incorporate them in their design.

    they do me as well. most clothes i own are earthy in color - i like brown shirts alot for some reason...

    and working with bright colors is a challenge.

    mind you the painting is only 2 days in - so we have LOTS of work to do still, and many of the colors will be blended better...hell it might not look anything like that 2 months from now...

    we are still trying to carve out the shapes...and working with the contrast of chemical bright colors.

    we have done it in the past with some success - but we have also failed (ie - bill cosby is a painting we both dislike and consider a failed attempt to some degree)

    but i think you tapped into something critical...

    and althought you may not consider yourself a fan of "modern" art - it is the only art that can exist.

    i have re-created the works of master painters - i have painted countless skies and nature scenes - i used to go to the levee and paint what i saw - i have studied the masters extensively - and i was taught by my greatest mentor that the best artist in the world is the CAMERA.

    realism is dead - and as an artist i have little appreciation for an artist who practices this way exclusively - it lacks creativity.

    a modern artist must create objects and spaces that can not be seen in the natural world - we must create that which is appealling to the eye and a construct of the mind.

    some incorporate realism into their designs - like many surrealist painters...and like i have recently toyed with in my latest independent painting project...

    but what edison art is doing with this project is attempting to create depth and space, in an ordered fashion...the 3 canvases will go together in a variety of ways, their measurements are precise and they themselves create a composition - but the colors within those shapes are a touch of us - chaos.

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