Monday, December 3, 2018
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Important Message to the World of Fine Art
INTRODUCTION
I would like to write an important message to the world of fine art. This message will regard my thoughts and ideas on art and the past, present and future world of fine art. It also will include some of my various art pieces.
This important message is from all the artists by the artists, this is a message for everyone to know and hopefully make some positive changes. I would like to translate this message into as many languages as possible for people around the world to understand this important message.
I will need all the support that my fellow blogers, readers and friends can give.
Thank you all.
Ilona-
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE
WORLD
OF FINE ART
Dedicated
To all past, present and future innovative visual fine artist
What is Visual Fine Art in comparison to other art forms?
Visual Fine Art is the oldest and the highest art form among all other arts.
Origins of the forms of art were found in ancient caves that date back thousands of years, in mankind’s infancy. And pictography was the first way of communicating among early humans. As far as we know, it was the only way to communicate before the spoken and written languages were developed. Pictography was a main method of communication. Pictures of animals or hunters on the caves’ walls has been dated to be more than twenty thousand years old and is ancient proof that pictography has been a basic form of communication.
Fine Art has been determined by being not only historic, aesthetically valuable, and beautiful and also the most tangible among all other art forms. There are numerous historical paintings and sculptures that date back many centuries and are being studied, exhibited and treasured in great museums of Fine Art around the world. This makes Fine Art the most superior over the performing arts of music, singing, dancing and above the art of cinematography.
Art of entertainment is booming! Hollywood stars, singers and dancers are getting all the recognitions and having lavish lives, starting during their young years. However many talented and innovative visual artists get recognized when they are very old or have passed on. This old dilemma needs to be and can be changed.
Why am I writing this message to the world? I am doing my part to be heard and seen as a fellow artist and visual creator who is still around and not that old, and would like to make a positive change in a stale existence of the art world. There should be no more innovative starving artists. True talented visual artists should not strive and struggle in poverty all their lives. We artists need to be recognized and well rewarded during our lives, in the same way as movie stars; performers or even ball players get their recognitions and rewards. Art dealers should no more sell original art pieces from artists that are no longer here to benefit from the sales. No more art dealers selling past artists original works for huge amount of money. .Art dealers shouldn’t have any right to resell and capitalize on the work they did not produce and live their lives in luxury by those sales. This is the worst form of stealing from an artist who is long gone. There are many examples of this; one of them is now a famous artist: Vincent Van Gogh, each painting is selling for sixty million dollars. What a shame. When one reads Van Gogh’s biography of his difficult poverty stricken life that he lived, often eating his paints in order to survive and the suicidal ending makes one cry. Vincent Van Gogh does not want us to sob, he wants us to prevail and make sure that no more of his unfortunate life saga repeats ever again. And many other artists want us to change the unfair life pattern of a talented innovative fine artist.
My personal wish is that, when I am gone none of my original art pieces are ever to be sold . This will be my part in changes to the fine art world for better.
What are the differences that exist between the talented creative artist and the commercially technically trained artist?
Academy schooling for art techniques is likened to that of a harness to a horse for an artist. They have no freedom to create. The academy trained artist is confined to the rules and regulations of technical training that they acquire upon graduating from the art academy. These academy artists become commercial artist with their learned, practiced and polished technique. From this, all their work looks very much alike and mass produced.
A good example of a trained commercial artist is Thomas Kinkade. If you have seen his work it represents mostly one image of a house with glowing yellow lights from its windows. Kinkade is a manufacturer mass producer of his same or similar images that are printed on various household products like carpets, blankets, pillows etc, and sold in home accessories stores nation wide. There was a 60 Minutes television documentary made on the Thomas Kinkade manufacturing empire to identify if he is an artist or a commercial businessman. The 60 Minutes showed that he is a very successful manufacturer and commercial businessman, not an innovative artist.
Similar to Thomas Kinkade there is Bob Ross another commercial artist. He has televised art classes that he teaches on public television. Ross teaches his same techniques on how to paint the same or very similar landscapes for hobby artists. He also licenses some of the art supplies under his name to get royalties when the item is sold. Bob Ross is also a very successful businessman. Once, Bob Ross admitted openly during one of his shows that he cannot paint a portrait no matter how hard he had tried.
In the words of a famous Russian writer, philosopher Lev Tolstoy; “An artist should be able to draw, paint, sculpt design anything, and only then are they a true talented fine artist.”
Creative artists are like wild horses, no one controls us. Creative
artists are able to fly high in their imagination, we let our creativity loose. We do not know any techniques, mistakes, rules and regulations. We innovate, try and discover spontaneously, everything is new and different each time we are at work. Creativity is very important; this is what keeps the world going.
A good example of a creative artist is Leonardo De Vinci, an Italian man who lived five hundred years ago and is still well known. There is no singer or dancer who lived five hundred years ago and
is still known, this is direct proof that Fine Visual Art is the highest form of art above all
other categories of art including performing art. . Leonardo’s natural talent and abilities
have their mark on progress in art, architecture, technology and science. The first
transportation unit, which was then the bicycle, was invented by Leonardo De Vinci . He
was so remarkable that his work still remains a mystery and is active in scientific studies
today, like his paintings of Mona Lisa and her mysterious smile, his numerous
technological inventions and working prototypes and scientific discoveries.
What are technique and style?
Style is a specific technique or way of painting that is comfortable and is adopted by an artist to use . Many academically trained artists adopt a specific technique that they have
practiced over the years and feel comfortable with. They stick to their one technique and
are afraid to try something new, because as I have mentioned earlier these artists are
harnessed.
Creative artists have many styles and we are always trying something new. We don’t like our work to look the same. It would be boring and hinder our creative process. I am posting some of my various art works on this message blog. The majority of the art pieces that you see were created by me a long time ago while in my early 20s.
Personally I reinvent each painting when I paint; this is my goal. Before I begin a new painting I totally forget about my previous painting and begin with new idea, composition, colors, mediums and the different application of paints. I’ll try something different in order to prevent my paintings from looking alike. Often I get a comment,” Your paintings look beautiful and different, like they have been done by different artists..” That is a big compliment for me, this what I strive for. I don’t want my paintings to look the same. Copying your work over and over, like a commercial artist, repetition is a hindrance to any creativity to emerge. Look -alike paintings are not fine art, they are mass produced objects.
Why not believe in yourself and just try it ?
My art “career “contained many rejections in fact one rejection after another. Although my art work has been exhibited and some of the pieces were published, I was never paid. So I had to work in various customer service phone banks, retail jobs and do my art out of my small living room. When I grow weary from painting, I make sculptures, draw, and design new apparel and accessories, exercise units, etc. I have a few on going projects that are patent pending and some working prototypes made.
Whenever someone starts any tasks or any challenge it is important to see it through. Challenges are worth doing. They open your mind, liberating you from the limitations that you think you have ,building and strengthening confidence. Not trying at all is the real failure. I too, even now, struggle. Just recently my self esteem began to strengthen. I strongly feel it is through doing creative projects not in art alone but in speaking out for me verbally and through writing.
For many years my biggest phobia was the fact that I could not write and I believed this until I got into college. However, I remember having to ask people to write simple notations for me that most people would not think twice about writing. These little acts of kindness on other people’s part were actually embarrassing for me. When I got into college I had to write and this is when I recognized a phobia about writing and as it turns out my problem only existed in my head.
Now I write with confidence, not only I can write, I graduated from college with honors and a degree in Business Management. My favorite subjects were Philosophy and Expressive Writing. Writing for me proved to be a very powerful an effective form of communication. Things get done when we put them in writing. We think that we can not do things but this is a false assumption; our mind has played a trick on us. Fear is our worst enemy. We should focus more on doing the good. We all are God’s best creations and there is no way we are failures.
Why writing versus reading?
I enjoy writing; however I am not a big fan of reading. During my school years, I read what was required of me in order to graduate. What really surprised me is when I was in college and I took my very first philosophy class. I never heard of any philosopher or their philosophical views prior to going to college. Incredibly, I surprised myself; I intuitively knew all of their philosophical thoughts. How is that possible? I would ask myself, I never heard of Plato or of Socrates before this lecture class. I remember that I was able to finish their philosophical sayings spontaneously. This to seem to me as if
they were reading my mind and I theirs.
The professor in my philosophy class had a PhD in this subject and had many years of
reading and writing on it. He gave me the highest participation points and said, “I never
had a student who received this high number of points for participation.”
Some time ago, when I was twelve, my mother took my drawings that I always drew on my own, she took them and me to children’s art academy . We sat down with an art director of that academy. He looked at the drawings and told my mother; “Your daughter does not need to go to the art academy, she is already gifted in art: art schooling can hinder her creative abilities. Just let her do art on her own like she has been doing.”
True gift is given as a blessing and cannot be acquired. Creative fine artist is a gift ,
amazing voice for a great singer, or great dancers have the unique ability to move and many other special talents. We all have been blessed by our creator with different special gifts, some times it takes time to find out what kind of talents we are blessed with.
Conclusion:
This blog contains an important message to the world. Hopefully our modern
technological way of communication will help me reach as many people as possible
around the globe so they can read and understand this message. Message from the artists,
by the artist, for everyone to know about the stiff world of fine art.
All talented, innovative artists will be recognized and rewarded the same way as movie stars, entertainers and athletes. This would make all of us fine artist very happy. One day, the rags to riches story, will happen to all talented and innovative fine artist during their lives, even better, during their young lives.
It will be a new beginning for the past present and the future world of Fine
Art
I would like to write an important message to the world of fine art. This message will regard my thoughts and ideas on art and the past, present and future world of fine art. It also will include some of my various art pieces.
This important message is from all the artists by the artists, this is a message for everyone to know and hopefully make some positive changes. I would like to translate this message into as many languages as possible for people around the world to understand this important message.
I will need all the support that my fellow blogers, readers and friends can give.
Thank you all.
Ilona-
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE
WORLD
OF FINE ART
Dedicated
To all past, present and future innovative visual fine artist
What is Visual Fine Art in comparison to other art forms?
Visual Fine Art is the oldest and the highest art form among all other arts.
Origins of the forms of art were found in ancient caves that date back thousands of years, in mankind’s infancy. And pictography was the first way of communicating among early humans. As far as we know, it was the only way to communicate before the spoken and written languages were developed. Pictography was a main method of communication. Pictures of animals or hunters on the caves’ walls has been dated to be more than twenty thousand years old and is ancient proof that pictography has been a basic form of communication.
Fine Art has been determined by being not only historic, aesthetically valuable, and beautiful and also the most tangible among all other art forms. There are numerous historical paintings and sculptures that date back many centuries and are being studied, exhibited and treasured in great museums of Fine Art around the world. This makes Fine Art the most superior over the performing arts of music, singing, dancing and above the art of cinematography.
Art of entertainment is booming! Hollywood stars, singers and dancers are getting all the recognitions and having lavish lives, starting during their young years. However many talented and innovative visual artists get recognized when they are very old or have passed on. This old dilemma needs to be and can be changed.
Why am I writing this message to the world? I am doing my part to be heard and seen as a fellow artist and visual creator who is still around and not that old, and would like to make a positive change in a stale existence of the art world. There should be no more innovative starving artists. True talented visual artists should not strive and struggle in poverty all their lives. We artists need to be recognized and well rewarded during our lives, in the same way as movie stars; performers or even ball players get their recognitions and rewards. Art dealers should no more sell original art pieces from artists that are no longer here to benefit from the sales. No more art dealers selling past artists original works for huge amount of money. .Art dealers shouldn’t have any right to resell and capitalize on the work they did not produce and live their lives in luxury by those sales. This is the worst form of stealing from an artist who is long gone. There are many examples of this; one of them is now a famous artist: Vincent Van Gogh, each painting is selling for sixty million dollars. What a shame. When one reads Van Gogh’s biography of his difficult poverty stricken life that he lived, often eating his paints in order to survive and the suicidal ending makes one cry. Vincent Van Gogh does not want us to sob, he wants us to prevail and make sure that no more of his unfortunate life saga repeats ever again. And many other artists want us to change the unfair life pattern of a talented innovative fine artist.
My personal wish is that, when I am gone none of my original art pieces are ever to be sold . This will be my part in changes to the fine art world for better.
What are the differences that exist between the talented creative artist and the commercially technically trained artist?
Academy schooling for art techniques is likened to that of a harness to a horse for an artist. They have no freedom to create. The academy trained artist is confined to the rules and regulations of technical training that they acquire upon graduating from the art academy. These academy artists become commercial artist with their learned, practiced and polished technique. From this, all their work looks very much alike and mass produced.
A good example of a trained commercial artist is Thomas Kinkade. If you have seen his work it represents mostly one image of a house with glowing yellow lights from its windows. Kinkade is a manufacturer mass producer of his same or similar images that are printed on various household products like carpets, blankets, pillows etc, and sold in home accessories stores nation wide. There was a 60 Minutes television documentary made on the Thomas Kinkade manufacturing empire to identify if he is an artist or a commercial businessman. The 60 Minutes showed that he is a very successful manufacturer and commercial businessman, not an innovative artist.
Similar to Thomas Kinkade there is Bob Ross another commercial artist. He has televised art classes that he teaches on public television. Ross teaches his same techniques on how to paint the same or very similar landscapes for hobby artists. He also licenses some of the art supplies under his name to get royalties when the item is sold. Bob Ross is also a very successful businessman. Once, Bob Ross admitted openly during one of his shows that he cannot paint a portrait no matter how hard he had tried.
In the words of a famous Russian writer, philosopher Lev Tolstoy; “An artist should be able to draw, paint, sculpt design anything, and only then are they a true talented fine artist.”
Creative artists are like wild horses, no one controls us. Creative
artists are able to fly high in their imagination, we let our creativity loose. We do not know any techniques, mistakes, rules and regulations. We innovate, try and discover spontaneously, everything is new and different each time we are at work. Creativity is very important; this is what keeps the world going.
A good example of a creative artist is Leonardo De Vinci, an Italian man who lived five hundred years ago and is still well known. There is no singer or dancer who lived five hundred years ago and
is still known, this is direct proof that Fine Visual Art is the highest form of art above all
other categories of art including performing art. . Leonardo’s natural talent and abilities
have their mark on progress in art, architecture, technology and science. The first
transportation unit, which was then the bicycle, was invented by Leonardo De Vinci . He
was so remarkable that his work still remains a mystery and is active in scientific studies
today, like his paintings of Mona Lisa and her mysterious smile, his numerous
technological inventions and working prototypes and scientific discoveries.
What are technique and style?
Style is a specific technique or way of painting that is comfortable and is adopted by an artist to use . Many academically trained artists adopt a specific technique that they have
practiced over the years and feel comfortable with. They stick to their one technique and
are afraid to try something new, because as I have mentioned earlier these artists are
harnessed.
Creative artists have many styles and we are always trying something new. We don’t like our work to look the same. It would be boring and hinder our creative process. I am posting some of my various art works on this message blog. The majority of the art pieces that you see were created by me a long time ago while in my early 20s.
Personally I reinvent each painting when I paint; this is my goal. Before I begin a new painting I totally forget about my previous painting and begin with new idea, composition, colors, mediums and the different application of paints. I’ll try something different in order to prevent my paintings from looking alike. Often I get a comment,” Your paintings look beautiful and different, like they have been done by different artists..” That is a big compliment for me, this what I strive for. I don’t want my paintings to look the same. Copying your work over and over, like a commercial artist, repetition is a hindrance to any creativity to emerge. Look -alike paintings are not fine art, they are mass produced objects.
Why not believe in yourself and just try it ?
My art “career “contained many rejections in fact one rejection after another. Although my art work has been exhibited and some of the pieces were published, I was never paid. So I had to work in various customer service phone banks, retail jobs and do my art out of my small living room. When I grow weary from painting, I make sculptures, draw, and design new apparel and accessories, exercise units, etc. I have a few on going projects that are patent pending and some working prototypes made.
Whenever someone starts any tasks or any challenge it is important to see it through. Challenges are worth doing. They open your mind, liberating you from the limitations that you think you have ,building and strengthening confidence. Not trying at all is the real failure. I too, even now, struggle. Just recently my self esteem began to strengthen. I strongly feel it is through doing creative projects not in art alone but in speaking out for me verbally and through writing.
For many years my biggest phobia was the fact that I could not write and I believed this until I got into college. However, I remember having to ask people to write simple notations for me that most people would not think twice about writing. These little acts of kindness on other people’s part were actually embarrassing for me. When I got into college I had to write and this is when I recognized a phobia about writing and as it turns out my problem only existed in my head.
Now I write with confidence, not only I can write, I graduated from college with honors and a degree in Business Management. My favorite subjects were Philosophy and Expressive Writing. Writing for me proved to be a very powerful an effective form of communication. Things get done when we put them in writing. We think that we can not do things but this is a false assumption; our mind has played a trick on us. Fear is our worst enemy. We should focus more on doing the good. We all are God’s best creations and there is no way we are failures.
Why writing versus reading?
I enjoy writing; however I am not a big fan of reading. During my school years, I read what was required of me in order to graduate. What really surprised me is when I was in college and I took my very first philosophy class. I never heard of any philosopher or their philosophical views prior to going to college. Incredibly, I surprised myself; I intuitively knew all of their philosophical thoughts. How is that possible? I would ask myself, I never heard of Plato or of Socrates before this lecture class. I remember that I was able to finish their philosophical sayings spontaneously. This to seem to me as if
they were reading my mind and I theirs.
The professor in my philosophy class had a PhD in this subject and had many years of
reading and writing on it. He gave me the highest participation points and said, “I never
had a student who received this high number of points for participation.”
Some time ago, when I was twelve, my mother took my drawings that I always drew on my own, she took them and me to children’s art academy . We sat down with an art director of that academy. He looked at the drawings and told my mother; “Your daughter does not need to go to the art academy, she is already gifted in art: art schooling can hinder her creative abilities. Just let her do art on her own like she has been doing.”
True gift is given as a blessing and cannot be acquired. Creative fine artist is a gift ,
amazing voice for a great singer, or great dancers have the unique ability to move and many other special talents. We all have been blessed by our creator with different special gifts, some times it takes time to find out what kind of talents we are blessed with.
Conclusion:
This blog contains an important message to the world. Hopefully our modern
technological way of communication will help me reach as many people as possible
around the globe so they can read and understand this message. Message from the artists,
by the artist, for everyone to know about the stiff world of fine art.
All talented, innovative artists will be recognized and rewarded the same way as movie stars, entertainers and athletes. This would make all of us fine artist very happy. One day, the rags to riches story, will happen to all talented and innovative fine artist during their lives, even better, during their young lives.
It will be a new beginning for the past present and the future world of Fine
Art
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)