tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post2100347308055585017..comments2024-03-27T12:23:10.093-04:00Comments on Judy's Journal: organic, labour intensive, energetic marksJudy Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00619951031502775381noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post-84149814670465806412015-02-01T14:12:39.890-05:002015-02-01T14:12:39.890-05:00I re-visited this post today after reading a new b...I re-visited this post today after reading a new book about quilting called Unconventional and Unexpected, American Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000. Fantastic quilts, but frustrating comments by the author, who compared all the quilts to works by famous (male) painters, as if that was what validated them. I much prefer your description of the paintings you show here, using the language of expression as opposed to imitation. Our desire to create, whether as painters or stitchers, comes from the same place.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17188002198879523397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post-64222531624682898962015-01-27T08:26:29.507-05:002015-01-27T08:26:29.507-05:00What a coincidence, Judy. I showed this painting o...What a coincidence, Judy. I showed this painting of Cy Twombly, which I have always loved, to my students a couple o days ago, and I was amazed because they didn't like it at all. In fact, they didn't understand it. We will have a class to talk about it deeply and I am sure your words will be useful for me.Montse Llamashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16870328257747437111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post-7399237154342488312015-01-24T07:37:32.798-05:002015-01-24T07:37:32.798-05:00the scale of Cy Twombly's work is something th...the scale of Cy Twombly's work is something that you can't see here. His painting is 3 x as large as Guenther Uecker's, and 5 x as large as Yayoi Kasuma's.<br /><br />When you are in front of a painting where each gesture takes one's whole body, and there is so much emptiness, it's like being on a hill top.<br />xJudy Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00619951031502775381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post-75781695511583164932015-01-23T23:23:16.298-05:002015-01-23T23:23:16.298-05:00I so love the first and last works ,number 2 Im no...I so love the first and last works ,number 2 Im not so sure .What I do get with Cy's work is the play between the positive and negative spaces.<br />I obviously need to see them all for myself......<br />Big sigh .....one day .....Chyfeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01881745109032575783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post-25310825108520408742015-01-23T22:27:29.195-05:002015-01-23T22:27:29.195-05:00Thank you Judy. I appreciate the insights.Thank you Judy. I appreciate the insights.jilloynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post-33199765312028215992015-01-23T20:43:08.674-05:002015-01-23T20:43:08.674-05:00Thanks for the introduction to the work of Guenthe...Thanks for the introduction to the work of Guenther Uecker. I found a lovely collection of his works on paper here http://m.szepmuveszeti.hu/collection_browser_eng?search_text=Uecker&page=3Votedwithourforkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06891631427002261892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post-68193226498950949362015-01-23T20:38:14.940-05:002015-01-23T20:38:14.940-05:00I think that these paintings are very much like my...I think that these paintings are very much like my own stitching, Margaret. <br />The japanese artist and the german artist use repetition and texture in much the same way - it's hard work to cover an area with the same mark, yet because the hand has done these marks, they are not the same. each is unique.<br /><br />I love the way that they are not in a grid - that they are organic yet repetitive. Like nature. I relate to these marks. I think many of us do.<br /><br />As for Cy Twombly, I respond to his marks as well because they seem to reach into himself and take a chance that they will be just the right one. He is very brave in placing things we recognize (like numbers and letters) into the messy painted areas. He is brave also because so much empty space is left - again I am reminded of what it is like to be in nature, and that may be why I like his work.<br /><br />I think that looking at paintings affirms my ideas and I am sharing them with you because I am showing you what it is like to be me. What I respond to. <br /><br />We are the same - painters or stitchers. I don't see a difference and never have.<br /><br />xxJudy Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00619951031502775381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23991882.post-67606686161089830922015-01-23T19:41:13.647-05:002015-01-23T19:41:13.647-05:00I don't understand.I don't understand.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04472013513744969837noreply@blogger.com