Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sunday Five - Art and Artists


On my, oh my, oh my, I am almost late posting the Sunday five.  I can't let that happen, I must tap into the creative powers and put out.  Creative powers, hence art, hence this weeks sunday five. 

1: What art(s) do your practice (secretly or publicly?) 
2: I have a board meeting in Nashville the end of the month, the team building exercise is recording a song live on the stage at the Ryman Auditorium.  Are you comfortable singing in public? 
3: The image above is by Andy Warhol,  was he a great artist or a great marketer? 
4: As a child did you follow the rules and color inside the lines and use the correct colors? 
5: Is there a piece of art that you created, on display or use in your home? 

My answers: 
1: What art(s) do your practice (secretly or publicly?) Photography and painting.  I want to do jewelry making again. 
2: I have a board meeting in Nashville the end of the month, the board team building exercise is recording a song live on the stage at the Ryman Auditorium.  Are you comfortable singing in public? This will stretch me way outside of my comfort zone, I think it is meant to do that. 
3: The image above is by Andy Warhol,  was he a great artist or a great marketer? He did some neat work, but I think he is overrated. 
4: As a child did you follow the rules and color inside the lines and use the correct colors? I stayed inside the lines, but had my own sense of color. 
5: Is there a piece of art that you created, on display or use in your home? Paintings, photographs, two silver boxes and a metal inlay piece I made at University.  

6 comments:

  1. 1: knitting

    2: not really. if I am around close friends who care about me, I will. it also helps if I am under the influence of wine.

    3: both, I think

    4: sometimes

    5: I WEAR my art!

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  2. 1. I practice the art of wishing I could knit, crochet, paint or do macaroni art. No talent whatsoever.

    2. Not comfortable at all. I did get a little tipsy on our Alaskan cruise and my sister put my name in (unbeknownst to me) to sing a song with the band and lady singer. I should've left but my sister was having too much of a ball. I really wasn't drunk enough, but I did it. My brother-in-law has video proof that Son of a Preacher Man never sounded so bad!

    3. Art is in the eye of the beholder, and it, like wine, is just a matter of taste.

    4. Nope.

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  3. 1. I dabble in a great many things but don't have the discipline to practise any of them enough to become truly proficient. For example, calligraphy.

    2. Yes, I am comfortable singing in public.

    3. Sometimes, especially in our consumer society, being a great artist and a great marketer is one and the same thing. Warhol captured that perfectly.

    4. I always coloured inside the lines and used the right colours. I was a good girl, I was.

    5. Generally speaking, no -- although right now, I'm using a pair of pillow slips on my bed that I hand-embroidered 50 years ago as a child in 4-H. Kittens and flowers, if you must know.

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  4. 1: What art(s) do your practice (secretly or publicly?) Writing. I doodle and wish I did more sketching/drawing/sculpture.
    2: I have a board meeting in Nashville the end of the month, the team building exercise is recording a song live on the stage at the Ryman Auditorium. Are you comfortable singing in public? I never have, but I would find it fun to do as part of your team building exercise.
    3: The image above is by Andy Warhol, was he a great artist or a great marketer? He was creative and a trend-setter but, for me at least, more a great marketer than a great artist.
    4: As a child did you follow the rules and color inside the lines and use the correct colors? I hated coloring books, because I felt obligated to color inside the lines.
    5: Is there a piece of art that you created, on display or use in your home? Etchings and drawings of mine hang on our walls. Just a few, though, and more than 30 years old.

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  5. 1: drawing and writing
    2: avoid board meetings. trust me.
    3: both
    4: yes I was a good boy who did as told
    5: several

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