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Hans said...: ok, first one is a little too ambiguous like grimace....but nice folds, the second one is fun! the third one reminds me of the dunes in Washington - on a windy day. good ones!; May 05, 2007
Metamatician said...: The first one is called 'Haunted Mind' - it's supposed to be a girl in a night gown lifting a shawl around her while sitting on a bed, getting ready for sleep. It's ghostly because it's the burned-in image in my mind of a certain someone I wish I could be with. I thought you'd find more in this one, maybe it's too abstract.

The second one is called 'Mind #2' and it's what inspiration or excitement feels like - mania even. Beautiful colors but you can't really sustain that kind of kinetic energy for long without burning out.

The last one IS a picture of sand dunes, although from a more local beach obviously, with some camera shake and dimming to indicate either a windstorm or just the imprecision of memory. It could have been a crystal blue day, but if my mood was down, it was filed in my brain looking like this.

All three are meant to try to express in images the subjective experience of feelings, of brief flashes in the mind. Memory is not realistic, it's an impression of what you observed plus how you colored it with your state of being at the time. I tried to show that visually in three different ways.; May 05, 2007
Hans said...: Goes to show that to judge an artist is to judge yourself in a way. How does a painting affect you: how do you feel when you look at it, does it haunt you afterwards, is it hard to look away, etc. The artist knows what he/she is after, what affect is desired. The observer can't share that but it does make an impression in some way. I love your descriptions and I love the sensitivity you put into each one.; May 05, 2007
Hans said...: really meant to judge ART, not especially the artist in my case.; May 05, 2007
Metamatician said...: Thanks for the followup comments, I appreciate it. It is hard to know what the artist intended, and you shouldn't have to. In the end the only value for the observer is how it make him or her feel, so the "goal" of art for the observer is different from that of the artist, who may be painting for cathartic reasons or to get a different message across. Sometimes the key emotional elements get through to the observer even if the specific details don't - I think that must be what artists strive for. Just to compel the observer to feel something similar to the feelings he or she put into it.; May 06, 2007
JOVIAN said...: the top one creeped my out a bit. it reminded me of a nightmare creature craning to look at me through the screen, like murmandamus looking through the crystal ball. the middle one is frenetic, beautiful, and dangerous. the sands dunes do have a distant-memory quality about them, a bit sad with pink floyd clouds on the horizon, but are missing a subject or a compelling reason to care about them. H; May 11, 2007
Metamatician said...: Careful, that top one is my Nicky you're talking about!

Thanks for the comments though. Yeah, the bottom one lacks a subject. It's more of an abstract, but in straddling the line it doesn't really have power either as something defined or impressionistic.; May 12, 2007

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