David Lynch - "The Art Life"
We watched this interesting documentary by David Lynch about his life as an artist.
He was given a book early in his schooling that helped him think about art:
The Art Spirit
by Robert Henri (Author)
A classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art
"Art when really understood is the province of every human being." So begins The Art Spirit, the collected words, teachings, and wisdom of innovative artist and beloved teacher Robert Henri.
Henri, who painted in the Realist style and was a founding member of the Ashcan School, was known for his belief in interactive nature of creativity and inspiration, and the enduring power of art.
Since its first publication in 1923, The Art Spirit, has been a source of inspiration for artists and creatives from David Lynch to George Bellows.
Filled with valuable technical advice as well as wisdom about the place of art and the artist in American society, this classic work continues to be a must-read for anyone interested in the power of creation and the beauty of art.
The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art (Icon Editions)
by
Robert Henri,
Forbes Watson (Introduction),
Margery A. Ryerson (Compiler )
In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri.
While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration for those to whom the happiness to be found through all the arts is important.
No other American painter attracted such a large, intensely personal group of followers as Henri, whose death in 1929 brought to an end a life that has been completely devoted to art.
He was an inspired artist and teacher who believed that everyone is vitally concerned in the happiness and wisdom to be found through the arts.
Many of his paintings have been acquired by museums and private collectors. Among them are the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wichita Art Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery.
Paperback, (first published November 30th 1929)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207781.
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Robert Henri's Sense of Place -
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
https://youtu.be/ekBBC17qF1E
Beloved Painter and Philosopher Robert Henri on How Art Binds Us Together
“Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and
of knowledge are established among men.”
Henri’s The Art Spirit lives on as a timeless and necessary read, brimming with insightful additions to history’s finest definitions of art and complementing these essential reads on fear and the creative process.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/12/robert-henri-the-art-spirit-brotherhood/
Quotes:
Frank Lloyd Wright, writing in 1957, as cited in Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Nature, and the Human Spirit: A Collection of Quotations:
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Thomas Merton in No Man Is An Island:
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Michelangelo Pistoletto in Art’s Responsibility:
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums — they must be present in all possible activities.
The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.
Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. en.wikipedia.org
Born: June 25, 1933 (age 86), Biella
Robert Henri's Sense of Place
Cornell Fine Arts Museum (CFAM )
Curator, Amy Galpin presents:
Robert Henri's Sense of Place
March 14, 2014
Robert Henri possessed a profound connection to place.
Whether it was Ireland, Spain, New Mexico, California, or Maine, Henri was attracted to disparate places and the various people he encountered.
This talk places his painting Mountain Ash, Dark Woods, 1911, located in the permanent collection of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, in context with other works by the artist and his contemporaries.
Find out more at:
http://www.rollins.edu/cfam/
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