Entry for August 02, 2007

When I did the blogthings Who should paint you, I got Andy Warhol. I guess it works if we take the idea that he did an image over and over and over with little or no change. That seems at times like the way my life lessons go. Sigh. But of late, Kokashka has come to mind: acidic colors, bold strokes, in your face. Some times Munch: the crazy dream you can't wake from.
I've mentioned to a few of m v-friends that I loved the water color illustrations of Paradise Lost by Salvador Dali. Yet if he were to paint my life, it would be one of those multi meaning, search for the hidden, surreal jobs.
I have a tendency in painters to appreciate opposite sides of the thought and application pool. Kandinsky and Joseph Stella ignite my mind and subconcious. I get lost in a Pollock. Yet if we're not going there, I want the romantic/impressionism of Constable, Homer, Moran. I think I really like realism. It just doesn't have a lot to do with my living!
On second thought - scrap the realism.