one of my fondest memories was going to the YMCA (my mother would sometimes send me by taxi and I often got a driver that was missing an ear) and my favorite activity was finger painting...oooohhhh I love the feeling of wet paint on my finger (still do)...Back then, I loved painting. I wish to recapture that feeling...I think that I will have to start over again and let the child within guide me!!!!!
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I am enchanted by the very tactile nature of art materials, and their physical properties, how the spread, drip, stay in place, move through osmosis, flow under gravity, react when attacked, soothe me when i caress them.
I was struck by a distinction made by Ted Jacobs, (“Drawing with an open mind”), “It has always appeared to me that human graphic art is divisible into two fundamental lines of development: the tactile and the optical. The tactile is essentially a means of representing forms based upon information received through the sense of touch. The optical, or visual, is a technique for representing either what is perceived by the eye or the process of perception itself. The tactile tries to represent the model on the basis of how we think it feels, the optical according to what it looks like”.
So needless to say, i’m now exploring art informel, but with form – an inherent contradiction that affords me a lot of thinking and quite some fun - especially with tachisme and action painting (painting is a performance art) applied to portraiture. So thanks for your great post on COBRA.
Hi Suzanne, sorry about the mess of comments i'm creating here - i'm a newbie, but learning. I deleted my first post because it's ID pointed at my profile rather than my art interest - an important distiction. (I'm in love with art and art making, not with myself). At least now i've learnt to sign with my blog - Tachisme.
Annnnyway, my first post started out by saying, "I know how you feel, Suzanne. I too etc". Phew. At least i know you can delete this doky fess up. Cheers, h.
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