FLOOD (2000)Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48”
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FLOOD (2000)
Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48”Faced with the prospect of cancer surgery, I thought that while awash in pain killers I might at least experience some interesting dreams. Instead I found that the medications did exactly the opposite, completely deadening any creative sense I had. 1/4
#fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism #fadedstar
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FLOOD (2000)
Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48”Faced with the prospect of cancer surgery, I thought that while awash in pain killers I might at least experience some interesting dreams. Instead I found that the medications did exactly the opposite, completely deadening any creative sense I had. 1/4
#fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism #fadedstar
My net sum of interesting creative ideas while in the hospital was zero! It taught me a valuable lesson: creativity is linked to my reasoning and thought; interrupt the flow of thought artificially and the creative forces are negated altogether. 2/4
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My net sum of interesting creative ideas while in the hospital was zero! It taught me a valuable lesson: creativity is linked to my reasoning and thought; interrupt the flow of thought artificially and the creative forces are negated altogether. 2/4
Some time afterwards, I did experience some particularly compelling waking dreams. I didn’t know what they were about, but I felt that I had to paint them. 3/4
FLOOD
Faced with the prospect of cancer surgery, I thought that while awash in pain killers I might at least experience some interesting dreams. Instead I found that the medications did exactly the oppos…
The Art of Michael Whelan (www.michaelwhelan.com)
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Some time afterwards, I did experience some particularly compelling waking dreams. I didn’t know what they were about, but I felt that I had to paint them. 3/4
FLOOD
Faced with the prospect of cancer surgery, I thought that while awash in pain killers I might at least experience some interesting dreams. Instead I found that the medications did exactly the oppos…
The Art of Michael Whelan (www.michaelwhelan.com)
EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. 4/4
Michael Whelan (@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art)
Attached: 1 image EBB (2000), Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48” EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. I was having a conversation about my work with Betsy Wollheim, longtime friend and smart editor/publisher. She said, “What do you mean you don’t know what they are about? It’s been obvious to me from the first time I saw them.” 1/2 #art #fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism
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EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. 4/4
Michael Whelan (@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art)
Attached: 1 image EBB (2000), Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48” EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. I was having a conversation about my work with Betsy Wollheim, longtime friend and smart editor/publisher. She said, “What do you mean you don’t know what they are about? It’s been obvious to me from the first time I saw them.” 1/2 #art #fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism
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@MichaelWhelan "Aboutness" is, of course, an interesting question. Canada's own Margaret Atwood said "authors [read 'artists'] are not authorities on their own work", so the onus is on each of us to actively interpret and understand a work, while artists can, of course, go on intuition, logic, purpose, and/or what just feels right. I mean, you couldn't ask Miles what "Kind of Blue" is "about", could you? Now I'm just imagining that answer…
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EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. 4/4
Michael Whelan (@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art)
Attached: 1 image EBB (2000), Acrylic on Canvas - 36” x 48” EBB and FLOOD were done on faith. It didn’t matter if anyone—even myself—understood what they were about, they had to be made real. I was having a conversation about my work with Betsy Wollheim, longtime friend and smart editor/publisher. She said, “What do you mean you don’t know what they are about? It’s been obvious to me from the first time I saw them.” 1/2 #art #fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism
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@MichaelWhelan Is there any chance of these showing up in your print shop?
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