spence munsinger
artist & painter
I’ve been reading Mark Rothko’s “An Artist’s Reality”. Rothko wrote this late-thirties, early-forties. He was a teacher, and that shows. It was not published until 2004. It’s a older style of writing than even the 30′s. It’s worth reading. The writing is a high level look at art and purpose and the goal of [...]
“One must observe nature by means of the light reflected from objects, rather than be concerned with the tangible existence of the objects themselves.” From “Search for the Real” a collection of writings by and about Hans Hofmann, published in 1948. This statement is a Zen koan for an artist, at least for me. [...]
I was searching for something about color and I ran across a statement in a forum, something like “if you want to see how to paints trees find a book by Wolf Kahn”. Further down in that newsgroup, someone else agreed that the was the path to follow. I wasn’t researching trees, but I [...]
