Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quoting "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com>: > Philippe, > By definition, art is an attempt to reach your soul; bypass the analytical > part of our thinking. I found this to be true for me now. By going on gut feelings, maybe I'm repudiating my own discipline, (or getting very lazy). In college I studied Art History, analyzing, analyzing, without neccessarily being taken with the art. I never thought much about many artists, whose work I'd only seen in books, for example, Jackson Pollock; he just did splatters, right? But when I went to his retrospective at MOMA in 1999 I was staggered by the works. They just grabbed me and pulled me into what seemed like infinite spaces. I didn't want to leave the gallery, and when I did I was afflicted with great sadness that I'd never again get to experience so many of his paintings at one time. I have the catalog of the exhibition, but even the exquisite reproductions fall short of the feelings I got being up close to the paint, feelings I can't really put into words. Photos can go right to this same place for me too, and find it hard to explain what grabs me about an image (which results in my bland postings here ;-} > > So yes, art is only practical as it brings us to places we could not get to > without a little help from someone else's vision. People could go on > without art, it just would be a lot grayer. That's for sure. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Office Phone: 414 229-6525 | E-mail: amr3@uwm.edu Department Phone: 414 229-4282 http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/