The question of today’s session was really difficult for me: which artist do you like the most? I always hate the kind of social question. I imagine right away some cheesy person, in a boring party, who asks you, “What do you do in the life? Who is your favourite band? Which book had changed your life? Do you like dogs?” I don’t have one, unique, unchangeable favourite artist. I have ten, twenty, hundreds. In addition, they change with my mood, with the weather, with the space and the time. Today, I have a headache, so I like Vermeer. I want to see specifically a piece call Women in blue reading a letter, a wonderful, peaceful small painting full of light. Yesterday morning, my favourite painter was the dynamic Picasso and yesterday night the torment figures of Schiele fascinated me. Tomorrow, I will like a contemporary sculpture of land-art, I will listen Queen of the stone age (rock band) in a crowded subway and Miles Davis at dusk. If a book, a theatre piece or a choreography touch me today, it probably didn’t interested me 2 years ago and it won’t in 2 years. For me, answer to the question “which artist I like the most “is mean only two things: you like a memory of the feeling you had in front of the piece of art once or you are stock in a period of time. I don’t want to be stock; I want to move, to change, to do mistake, to develop, to be live. Pauline
Pauline, this is a fascinating and very honest response to a question. I am very excited that the question during our braiunstorming session inspired you to think about art and artists in such interesting way.
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The question of today’s session was really difficult for me: which artist do you like the most?
ReplyDeleteI always hate the kind of social question. I imagine right away some cheesy person, in a boring party, who asks you, “What do you do in the life? Who is your favourite band? Which book had changed your life? Do you like dogs?”
I don’t have one, unique, unchangeable favourite artist. I have ten, twenty, hundreds. In addition, they change with my mood, with the weather, with the space and the time. Today, I have a headache, so I like Vermeer. I want to see specifically a piece call Women in blue reading a letter, a wonderful, peaceful small painting full of light. Yesterday morning, my favourite painter was the dynamic Picasso and yesterday night the torment figures of Schiele fascinated me. Tomorrow, I will like a contemporary sculpture of land-art, I will listen Queen of the stone age (rock band) in a crowded subway and Miles Davis at dusk. If a book, a theatre piece or a choreography touch me today, it probably didn’t interested me 2 years ago and it won’t in 2 years. For me, answer to the question “which artist I like the most “is mean only two things: you like a memory of the feeling you had in front of the piece of art once or you are stock in a period of time. I don’t want to be stock; I want to move, to change, to do mistake, to develop, to be live.
Pauline
Pauline, this is a fascinating and very honest response to a question. I am very excited that the question during our braiunstorming session inspired you to think about art and artists in such interesting way.
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