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The Comedy in the Divine: Part Seven of Eight


When we walk through museums, visit exhibitions and look at art, we come with preconceptions, prejudices and preferences, and, if you are an artist, take from those works ideas and processes we could use as our own. Much of the time we come away with our opinions affirmed, pushed to reconsider an artist's work, or just excited to get back into the studio.

But sometimes, a work of art produces a sudden insight or a discovery that reshapes one's approach to art making.

Here is the ninth work.

Nine Drawings: Part Eight of Eight


When we walk through museums, visit exhibitions and look at art, we come with preconceptions, prejudices and preferences, and, if you are an artist, take from those works ideas and processes we could use as our own. Much of the time we come away with our opinions affirmed, pushed to reconsider an artist's work, or just excited to get back into the studio.

But sometimes, a work of art produces a sudden insight or a discovery that reshapes one's approach to art making.

Nevelson Art Project 1991

Nevelson Project 1991
During the first Gulf War, 1991, the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock created a program that brought over 800 public school children to the museum school to create sculptures based upon the work of Louise Nevelson.

AFTER THE PIT

What a difference a week in the studio makes
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After two years struggling in an artistic pit, I have once more connected with my core and have found a theme.