Browsing: Letters
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The art collecting instinct
Dear Artist, Gail Thompson of Markham, Ontario, Canada, writes, “I would like to see a letter on why collectors will continue to collect original art. Being in sales, I always look for customer benefits first so I am sure I…
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How to do it
Dear Artist, Florida artist Larry Moore asks, “It seems as though you are always in France or Hawaii or Sumatra — somewhere. Any chance you can elaborate on how you, and other artists like you, are able to accomplish this…
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Observations
Dear Artist, Before leaving France, I thought I might leave you with a few observations. Coming and going from this wonderful country over a period of years, I’ve noticed a few changes. While many of these changes are also world-wide,…
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Alfi is dead
Dear Artist, I know this is a bit sentimental, but I’m sorry to inform you that Alfi is dead. Alfi was a 1978 Alfa Romeo Alfetta that I bought in 1982. For twenty years Alfi has been our transportation when…
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In Monet’s garden
Dear Artist, I’m sitting in a quiet corner in Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny. Weeping willows hang down and frame the water-lily pond where a young man stands in a flat-bottomed skiff and silently nets fallen leaves from the surface.…
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Art Potion
Dear Artist, Here in France, potions are in fashion. Miraculous mineral waters, copper bracelets, Thalassotherapy, algae injections, mud activities, the pleasantries of colonic irrigation — there are ways of purging the bad stuff from the lungs, brains and bowels. Going…
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Levels of achievement
Dear Artist, Every once in a while some experts will have a conference and announce that painting is now dead. They are usually referring to somewhat realistic paintings that depict something or other that a more or less average person…
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Joseph Beuys
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping to you this morning from the Tate Modern in London, England. I’ve a confession to make. While I dearly love seeing quality paintings, and love even more trying to make them, I’m a bit of a…