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For you information - The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious. It Is The Source Of All Art And Science. He To Whom This Emotion Is A Stranger, Who Can No Longer Pause To Wonder And Stand Rapt In Awe, Is As Good As Dead.. His Eyes Are Closed. (Albert Einst

Josse Ford :: Art Journeys And Conversation :: - Uplifting the world through art, one painting at a time. "We, the new, the nameless, the hard-to-understand, we firstlings of a yet untried future - we require for a new end also a new means, namely, a new healthiness, stronger, sharper, tougher, bolder, and merrier than any healthiness hitherto. He whose soul longs to experience the whole range of hitherto recognized values and desirabilities, and to circumnavigate all the coasts of this ideal "Mediterranean Sea" who, from the adventures of his most personal experience, wants to know how it feels to be a conqueror and discoverer of the ideal - as likewise how it is with the artist, the saint, the legislator, the sage, the scholar, the devotee, the prophet, and the godly Nonconformist of the old style: __ requires one thing above all for that purpose, great healthiness - such healthiness as one not only possesses, but also constantly acquires and must acquire, because one continually sacrifices it again, and must sacrifice it! __ And now, after having being long on the way in this fashion, we Argonauts of the Ideal, who are more courageous perhaps than prudent, and often enough shipwrecked and brought to grief, nevertheless, as said above, healthier than people would like to admit, dangerously healthy, always healthy again, __ it would seem, as if in recompense for it all, that we still have an undiscovered country before us, the boundaries of which no one has yet seen, a beyond to all countries and corners of the ideal known hitherto, a world so over-rich in the beautiful, the strange, the questionable, the frightful, and the divine, that our curiosity as well as our thirst for the possession thereof, have got out of hand __ alas! that nothing will any longer satisfy us! Technorati Tags: art , spiritual art Recently I attended a panel at the Whitney curated by Andrea Zittel. Andrea and her friends who live at Joshua Tree talked about their influences and experiences on building community in the context of art. Here's what the Whitney had to say about the event: "Well known for her research and design of domestic and external environments, Andrea Zittel creates experimental models for contemporary life, or what she calls "systems for living." Her current project, the desert studio and home A-Z West in Joshua Tree, California, explores all aspects of the everyday, from home furniture and house guests to food and clothing, as part of her investigation into the contours of human nature and human needs. One such A-Z project, Wagon Stations, comprises mobile living stations customized by individuals invited to join Zittel's desert community; several will be on view beginning February 9 at the Whitney Museum at Altria." I've always liked Andrea Zittel . I first saw her work at the Whitney where she had a film on her daily routine as an artist at Joshua Tree. I appreciated it because the film had a great sense of humor. And then, of course, there's the desert. As Andrea herself has to say of the desert: "After living in the desert for six years, I have come to believe that most of us are drawn here because each of us is looking for some version of personal freedom." The A-Z wagons represent small, portable structures, customized by each artist, an ode to personal freedom. Traveling through the desert in my RV, painting, I can totally relate to the need for a space of one's own, even better if we can take it with us on our art journeys. The panel itself meandered across a lot of different territories, from activist 60s art to camping out in a large tent in the middle of the Freize Art Fair, in London. What struck me, however, was just how much fun these artists were having being artists. They seemed to live in a world so far removed from our ordinary world of "getting ahead" and commercial considerations. How refreshing! This is what it must be like to live fully in the artist archetype, not an small pokey garret, starving but noble, but in a world of childlike wonder, innocence, creating magnificent worlds of your own choosing, without regard to whether of not anyone else gets it. I can't remember the last time I felt like that - probably the last time I was out in the desert. "In one of his letters from Tahiti, Gaugin had written that he felt he had to go back beyond the horses of the Parthenon, back to the rocking-horse of his childhood. It is easy to smile at this preoccupation of modern artists with the simple and the childlike, and yet it should not be hard to understand it. For artists feel that this directness and simplicity is the one thing that cannot be learnt. Every other trick of the trade can be acquired. Every effect becomes easy to imitate after it has been shown that it can be done. Many artists feel that the museums and exhibitions are full of works of such amazing facility and skill that nothing is gained by continuing along those lines; that they are in danger of losing their souls and becoming slick manufacturers of paintings or sculptures unless they become as little children. Technorati Tags: art , artists , culture , desert , journeys , women Einstein Finds Inspiration in the Music of Mozart Last year, the 100th anniversary of E=mc2 inspired an outburst of symposiums, concerts, essays and merchandise featuring Albert Einstein. This year, the same treatment is being given to another genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on Jan. 27, 250 years ago. Einstein once said that while Beethoven created his music, Mozart's "was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master." Einstein believed much the same of physics, that beyond observations and theory lay the music of the spheres — which, he wrote, revealed a "pre-established harmony" exhibiting stunning symmetries. The laws of nature, such as those of relativity theory, were waiting to be plucked out of the cosmos by someone with a sympathetic ear. Einstein was fascinated by Mozart and sensed an affinity between their creative processes, as well as their histories......... .....he (Einstein) wrote four papers that were destined to change the course of science and nations. His ideas on space and time grew in part from aesthetic discontent. It seemed to him that asymmetries in physics concealed essential beauties of nature; existing theories lacked the "architecture" and "inner unity" he found in the music of Bach and Mozart. In his struggles with extremely complicated mathematics that led to the general theory of relativity of 1915, Einstein often turned for inspiration to the simple beauty of Mozart's music. In the end, Einstein felt that in his own field he had, like Mozart, succeeded in unraveling the complexity of the universe. This story is a beautiful example of the power of art and music to uplift and inspire. It also reminds us of the compelling and potent connection between science, art, and music - that a holistic approach to living is what we humans need to prosper and achieve great things! Technorati Tags: art , art collectors , art resources , art techniques , spiritual art , writing Who was she? An unrequited love affair? One suggestion that I agree with, is that she was a self-portrait. I believe that Leonardo Da Vinci was painting his Soul. Michael J. Gelb in his book How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci has found evidence for this from Dr Lillian Schwartz of Bell Laboratories and author of The Computer Artist's Handbook. "Applying sophistocated computer modeling with precision measurements of scale and alignment, Schwartz compared the Mona Lisa with the only extant self-portrait of the artist, drawn in red chalk in 1518. As she describes it, 'Juxtaposing the images was all that was needed to fuse them: the relative locations of the nose, mouth, chin and eyes and forehead i none precisely matched the other. Merely flipping up the corner of the mouth would produce the mysterious smile ..." Technorati Tags: art , spiritual art I am greatly enjoying a book called "The Mission of Art" by Alex Grey , a New York based visionary artist. I especially enjoyed what he had to say about Art and the Soul. "Art is communion of one soul to another, offered through the symbolic language of form and content. An artist creates a sensible form, through harmonious use of the medium (paint, clay, music, and so on), which expresses content, by subject and feeling. We absorb metaphysical sustenance from the balance of formal means and expressive ends. Art expands the appreciator's consciousness by providing a glimpse into the hearts and minds of strange beautiful humanity. Art is nutrition for the Soul. The soul cannot thrive on junk food. Many artists develop technical skills - they can draw, paint, or play an instrument - but seem to have little that is fresh, original, or worthwhile to say. Other artists really have something important to express but lack the skills or courage to express it. Rare is the artist with skill who offers a significant statement. Josse Ford :: Art Journeys and Conversation :: Josse Ford :: Art Journeys and Conversation :: About Photo Albums DUMBO Grand Tetons Journey August 2004 Josse Ford Paintings The Gates Paintings Artist Website Design Recent Posts A Call To All Artists Andrea Zittel at the Whitney Favorite Artists Wolf Kahn Henri Matisse El Greco Vincent Van Gogh Artists Josse Ford Art Home Josse Ford - Artist Portfolio Angel Animals Network New York Foundation for Arts JMG Artblog :Making Stuff: Creative Chick Marc Jennings Photography Sweet Pea Kate Beautiful Cost-Effective Websites for Artists The Artery Amy Grier Art Marketing Secrets China Art Gallery Archives March 2006 February 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 A Call To All Artists Here's a call to action from Nietzsche: - Friedrich Nietzsche, Joyful Wisdom Posted by Josse on March 05, 2006 at 01:54 PM in Art , Art Journeys , Culture , Writing | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) Andrea Zittel at the Whitney A Wagon in It's Native Environment A Wagon Station from the installation at the Whitney, Altria Further thoughts from "The Artist's Mentor": -- E.H. Gombrich "The Artist's Mentor : Inspiration from the World's Most Creative Minds" (Ian Jackman) Posted by Josse on February 21, 2006 at 05:37 PM in Art , Art Journeys , Artists , Culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) A recent issue of the New York Times featured an inspiring essay by Arthur. L. Miller about two giants of modern history...... There is more to the dovetailing of these anniversaries than one might think. Thus it was less laborious calculation, but "pure thought" to which Einstein attributed his theories. "Whenever he felt that he had come to the end of the road or into a difficult situation in his work, he would take refuge in music," recalled his older son, Hans Albert. "That would usually resolve all his difficulties." Read the Full NYTimes Essay ... Posted by Daniel on February 04, 2006 at 10:54 AM in Art , Art Happenings , Artists , Reviews , Spiritual Art , Writing | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) The Mysterious Mona Lisa Da Vinci's most well known and mysterious paintings is the "Mona Lisa." There has been much speculation down through history as to who's portrait it might be. We know that it was very important to Leonardo. He carried it with him everywhere. Why was he so attached? Hauntingly beautiful, the mystery of her smile has provoked much discussion. What is she smiling about? Leonardo used a special techique called sfumato - the blurred outline and soft edges, with indistinct corners of the eyes and corners of the mouth. And then, of course, there is "The Da Vinci Code" which has been unleashing a torrent of interest and controversy, especially within the Vatican. But this is the story of another post.. . "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day" (Michael J. Gelb) Posted by Josse on December 05, 2005 at 02:08 PM in Art , Artists , Culture , Spiritual Art | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) Art and the Soul