tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post8942900208905420766..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: The discourses of Joshua Reynolds 2Stapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-18945430031322843802010-08-24T11:43:58.296-04:002010-08-24T11:43:58.296-04:00He looks so young to have acquired and worked for ...He looks so young to have acquired and worked for such painting skill.Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02190235296942905567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-60660723526761251882010-08-24T00:29:32.605-04:002010-08-24T00:29:32.605-04:00Philip:
I have been here, I just messed up my dati...Philip:<br />I have been here, I just messed up my dating system and the posts were labeled a day early.I am yet steadfast and constant.<br />..........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-90459605905418730742010-08-24T00:28:10.688-04:002010-08-24T00:28:10.688-04:00Bill;
I don't have a heart, I have no internal...Bill;<br />I don't have a heart, I have no internal organs, remember?<br />..............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-46403877278076259782010-08-24T00:26:52.843-04:002010-08-24T00:26:52.843-04:00Plein air gal:
They imagine we can emote the pain...Plein air gal:<br /><br />They imagine we can emote the painting on to the canvas.<br />Nothing to that!<br />...............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-86190932826050577142010-08-24T00:25:25.597-04:002010-08-24T00:25:25.597-04:00Marian; The prose is archaic, but the ideas are ti...Marian; The prose is archaic, but the ideas are timeless.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-53382712860944080152010-08-24T00:24:32.348-04:002010-08-24T00:24:32.348-04:00Bill;
It's the gift that keeps on taking.
.......Bill;<br />It's the gift that keeps on taking.<br />..................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-59192273995699066332010-08-24T00:23:49.513-04:002010-08-24T00:23:49.513-04:00Lucy;
Yes, they are, and it is interesting to hear...Lucy;<br />Yes, they are, and it is interesting to hear that the problems of painting were much the same in his day as ours. Those old guys were not so different.<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-1249395007340237742010-08-24T00:22:44.635-04:002010-08-24T00:22:44.635-04:00Kev;
Is his meaning occluded?
His intent shrouded ...Kev;<br />Is his meaning occluded?<br />His intent shrouded in opaque verbage?<br />Perhaps a more laconic expositor would providelimpid and truncated prose.<br />..................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-85690576260609727312010-08-24T00:18:02.008-04:002010-08-24T00:18:02.008-04:00Philip:
I can read the paintings of 16th century F...Philip:<br />I can read the paintings of 16th century French artists, whose prose would be similarly impenetrable for me.<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-13107665095628388512010-08-23T15:37:10.449-04:002010-08-23T15:37:10.449-04:00Stapelton, where art thou? It's afternoon on t...Stapelton, where art thou? It's afternoon on the 23rd and still no new post for Monday. Hope all is well.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-68855855490176569802010-08-23T09:13:38.239-04:002010-08-23T09:13:38.239-04:00It is through the heart that all "men" a...It is through the heart that all "men" are connected.<br />It is through the arts that communicates to those that will listen.billspaintingmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343383719352968590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-39974391793976462102010-08-23T08:48:43.919-04:002010-08-23T08:48:43.919-04:00I think that middle quote speaks not only to the e...I think that middle quote speaks not only to the education and training and practice, but also to the processes involved in making a painting. (Most) Folks rarely see or understand all the phases and layers that a painting goes through before it becomes that beautiful finished product - from bare or toned canvas to sketch in to underpainting to layers and strokes ... I think his "small acts" could easily also refer to all the brush strokes involved - each an individual small act. So many folks seem to think that a painting just magically happened and can't understand (or believe) that the masterpiece went through all those "ugly" earlier stages!Plein Air Galhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11157926536676921563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-31502689119662848192010-08-23T08:33:48.189-04:002010-08-23T08:33:48.189-04:00Gosh, I only wish putting in the time and a slow p...Gosh, I only wish putting in the time and a slow proccess made art but...<br />I am working up a new series and I started with gouache studies, now I am in the process of scaling them to full size as pencil studies and then I have to custom build the substrate, do the underpainting etc...is it art yet?<br /><br />Some things never change. Here I am sitting with all this information in the cloud, typing on an iPad and getting to wake up every morning to the amazing fact that painting and painters still have an enduring appeal and one still has to make a painting the good old time tested way. I don't think his ideas are so much modern as they are simply true.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-28413494496719521112010-08-23T08:32:47.157-04:002010-08-23T08:32:47.157-04:00I've always hated the "gift" idea - ...I've always hated the "gift" idea - I guess I have a gift, but I think the gift is the desire and the drive, not the talent. That part I'm still working on.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13924902779504101298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-6500741584287070792010-08-23T08:07:46.853-04:002010-08-23T08:07:46.853-04:00Although the text and language are archaic, the id...Although the text and language are archaic, the ideas are modern, relevant.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08862300369187414150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-47038817447407511752010-08-23T00:12:41.937-04:002010-08-23T00:12:41.937-04:00Au contraire, I find, in their ornate precision, t...Au contraire, I find, in their ornate precision, the perspicacious philosophical elucidations of Sir Joshua eschew obfuscation.kev ferrarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509572970616136990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-47917864936793145952010-08-22T22:34:56.827-04:002010-08-22T22:34:56.827-04:00One has to agree with the ideas this Reynolds guy ...One has to agree with the ideas this Reynolds guy is championing, but good lord is his writing style remote and difficult. I applaud Stape's patience at wading through such a book<br /><br />It's funny, as so many paintings from the distant past in comparison feel so easy to "read." I was looking at a Ruisdael forest in the Baltimore Museum of Art today and thinking how easy it was to enter this world painted almost 400 years ago.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.com