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Kerry:
--- Quote from: injest on April 02, 2009, 07:02:53 pm ---this one makes me curious...and I think if I saw it in a gallery I would come back to it again....why "Blood in the Water"? I see the red...so uniform and neat...not at all like blood would be in water...so I would think on it and try to feel it more...
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I love abstraction because different people see different things in the painting. I like to encourage this and for that reason, I prefer not to give my own personal meaning to a painting. A friend once told me that when she looked at "Blood in the Water," she imagined she was in a plane flying over Sydney Harbour at night, with all its little bays and inlets, looking down at the lit-up city from high above. Another friend who didn't like it said, "Humph, blood in the water, that looks about right!" She explained her comment to me by saying that she thought it looked like what she regularly saw when she looked in the toilet bowl. Told ya, it's all open to your own interpretation! ;)
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Kerry on April 02, 2009, 07:51:37 pm ---I love abstraction because different people see different things in the painting. I like to encourage this and for that reason, I prefer not to give my own personal meaning to a painting. A friend once told me that when she looked at "Blood in the Water," she imagined she was in a plane flying over Sydney Harbour at night, with all its little bays and inlets, looking down at the lit-up city from high above. Another friend who didn't like it said, "Humph, blood in the water, that looks about right!" She explained her comment to me by saying that she thought it looked like what she regularly saw when she looked in the toilet bowl. Told ya, it's all open to your own interpretation! ;)
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Isn't that why some artists prefer not to "name" their work? So as not to influence the viewer.
injest:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 02, 2009, 07:54:56 pm ---Isn't that why some artists prefer not to "name" their work? So as not to influence the viewer.
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I hate when artists don't name stuff! I need a starting point...
southendmd:
--- Quote from: injest on April 02, 2009, 07:56:59 pm ---I hate when artists don't name stuff! I need a starting point...
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I know: "Untitled #231" doesn't do much for me!
"Blood in the Water" is so much more evocative.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 02, 2009, 07:54:56 pm ---Isn't that why some artists prefer not to "name" their work? So as not to influence the viewer.
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Exactly right, Paul. Alas, I'm not courageous enough to do that. I recently finished an extremely elementary, Mondrian inspired abstract and was tempted to call it something like "Composition 9A," but I chickened-out and called it "Seaside Folly" instead! ::) :laugh:
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