Browsing: Letters
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Important stuff
Dear Artist, It’s early Tuesday morning and the studio computer is ringing like a Wal-Mart cash register. Artists are sending “Eyeku” to one another and copying to us. I’m thinking of young Basho, the first Haiku writer, cross-legged on his…
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A last look
Dear Artist, The other night while hanging out at a party a friend reminded me of Walter de la Mare’s “Look thy last on all things lovely, every hour.” Together she and I relished the idea that regularized, fleeting time might…
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Whistler’s father
Dear Artist, The psychologist Dr. Abraham Maslow in his studies of “self-actualizing people” made some interesting discoveries about the fathers of eminent offspring, particularly sons. It seems that certain dads are perceived as “not successful.” These dads are not necessarily…
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The decisive moment
Dear Artist, Last Tuesday, at home in the south of France, Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the world’s best-known photographers, died. He was 95. “One eye looks within, the other eye looks without,” said Cartier-Bresson. Starting with the simplest of box…
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Developing ideas
Dear Artist, On Wednesday, Norma Laming of London, UK wrote, “I need help with ‘developing ideas.’ I have to show I can do this in my portfolio to apply for art school and although it is an admission of a…
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Let’s do it
Dear Artist, With the last few letters about losing your mojo and about negative and positive self-talk in the studio, there came a fresh wave of artists looking for a simple fix. “I need an answer here,” said one. Then…
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Get your mojo
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Doug Swinton wrote, “It seems lately I have lost my will to paint — or as they say I have lost my Mojo. Where does one go or what does one do to find one’s Mojo? I’m…
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Ladies’ day
Dear Artist, Last night, while drifting off, I was thinking about a small notice in the December, 1922 “Studio” magazine I’d been reading: “The election of Mrs. Swynnerton marks a new and important departure from Royal Academy tradition. The candidature…