Browsing: Letters
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Subliminal art
Dear Artist, In 1980 a university media professor, Wilson Bryan Key, wrote a book that caused quite a fuss. It was an inquiry into the use of subliminal images — mostly in advertising — but also in fine art. The…
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The art of Robert Lenkiewicz
Dear Artist, Robert Lenkiewicz is one of my favorite painters. He died on May 5, 2002, age 60, of complications arising from heart problems. Yesterday I was reminded again of Robert by a letter from his friend Henryk Ptasiewicz. I…
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Just for today
Dear Artist, Just for today I’m going to try to make a better painting. We’re not talking Sistine Chapel here, just a piece of joy begun and ended between sunup and sundown. Just for today I’ll be happy with it.…
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Sabbatical
Dear Artist, Yesterday, my friend Chuck Putnins, whose other life is anesthesiology, wrote, “Next year I’ll be taking 6 months off work from May 1 to November 1. During that time I want to get better at painting and develop…
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Sir Winston Churchill’s art
Dear Artist, In 1915, after the debacle in the Dardanelles, and with an ugly war transpiring across the English Channel, Winston Churchill was let go from the British Admiralty. Anxious to relax his mind and emotions, he purchased a box…
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Art picking
Dear Artist, Yesterday, I was an art picker. My fellow pickers were art instructor Victor Arcega and popular sculptor Craig Benson. I don’t know about them, but I think this was the biggest show I’ve ever juried. There were 852…
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Colour therapy
Dear Artist, Dr. Reuben Amber, in his book Colour Therapy says that proper attention to colour can control obesity. “Overweight,” says Reuben, “is the result of an overdose of blue rays or the lack of red rays in the body.”…