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Repository 201: Gaining Wider Perspectives in 2017
Gaining a wider perspective is like opening a window to a stuffy room – the whole atmosphere changes and the fresh breeze carries alternatives to our habitual ways of reacting. – Tarthang Tulku Whether it’s been to justify my spells away from the studio to work as a management consultant, business owner, museum associate, mother, etc, I always believe that my artwork, and artwork in general, benefits from the more I know about everything else besides art. I still believe that is…
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Repository 45: On Matisse’s Art Genes
I’ve been reading some essays on Henri Matisse lately, and was excited to read his quote, which I whole heartedly agree – as artists we are very much influenced by whom we admire and surround ourselves with – the good, the bad, and the ugly. His words: I have never avoided the influence of others…I believe that the personality of the artist develops and asserts itself through the struggles it has to go through when pitted against other personalities. If…
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