SCUMBAG things to look at when making paintings
svell: Edvard Munch, Love and Pain (Vampire), 1893-94.
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nevver: Behind every great novelist …
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llamacorns: newsweek: Our Arts Critic Responds to the ‘Useless Majors’ List When Blake Gopnik, Newsweek & The Daily Beast’s arts critic, saw that arts degrees made up the majority of our ‘13 useless college majors’ list, he was a little upset, so we asked for a post from Blake to put it all into context. Here’s Blake (follow him on tumblr!): I say we could simply re-title The Daily Beast’s survey as “The 13 Most Useful College Majors” and it would be equally valid. After all, who’s more important today, Rembrandt or the people who bought his art? Monet or the people who bought his? Van Gogh or the rich idiots who FAILED to buy what he made? Useless is as useless does, I say, and it seems pretty clear to me that, across history, many of the people who made the biggest difference had training in the most useless professions. (Aristotle, anyone?)  Again, which is more useless, adding another million dollars to the millions you already have, or adding a new work of art, or a new thought, to the world’s store of ideas? The single biggest problem the world has today, by far  is that people in the West are used to owning and using too much, and are setting an impossible example for the rest of the planet. (See the new movie called “Surviving Progress”). So there’s real-world, practical virtue in living modestly, “uselessly”, and taking your pleasure from the thoughts and ideas you acquired in getting your “useless” degree in art or poetry or philosophy.  The world will not be a better place when more people have more money and stuff. It can ONLY be better when more people have better thoughts. I’m proud to say that my first degree, in medieval history, and my second and third, in art history, are as useless as they come. I’d do them all over again. PS: The most recent issue of Newsweek magazine ran a nice long and positive review of a book by philosopher Michael Sandel claiming that money is not the measure of all things – and that it’s ruining America’s values. Read the Michael Sandel book review // Follow Blake on Tumblr (Ed: Oooh! Ooh! We just so happen to have a live chat planned with Michael Sandel on Wednesday at 1pm ET. We swear this wasn’t planned, but so cool Blake mentioned the book review.) One day when I get my degree, I will keep it in a very thick metal frame and will smack anyone in the face who says it’s useless. It’s not useless then. In fact, I think I’m doing society a favor.
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cavetocanvas: Sidney Nolan, Self Portrait, 1988
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sfmoma: closedcontraptions: Philip Guston, Couple In Bed (1977) To talk about being lonely or isolated/cut off is to try and define a shape in the dark- it’s there but you have to figure out what isn’t there and construct things through a negative. The fact that Guston used cartoon-like figures to convey the political and the personal makes sense because what better way to show the world than to use the language that’s native to childhood and the formation of visual understanding? Interesting take. Learn more about the political themes in Guston’s work in this video.
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toomuchart: Pablo Picasso, Young Girl Struck by Sadness, 1939.
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nevver: “I despise modern music. Words cannot express how much it gets on my nerves – the false, pretentious, smug assertiveness of it. I hate business, having to deal with money. Money is one of the most hateful inventions of the human race. I hate the commodity culture, in which everything is bought and sold. No stone is left unturned. I hate the mass media, and how passively people suck up to it.” — R. Crumb
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5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative, John Cleese

nevver:

  1. Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
  2. Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
  3. Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
  4. Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
  5. Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
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definitelynotlow:

lmao, explode me. cut our arms off!

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theories-of: Chris Martin-1,2,3…, mixed media on canvas, 77 x 68 inches
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