tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post1317126036030231168..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: The five word descriptionStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-30359926164234514792010-03-17T23:56:11.737-04:002010-03-17T23:56:11.737-04:00Mary;
You of course get branded whether you like i...Mary;<br />You of course get branded whether you like it or not. Only sometimes can you control what is said.<br />............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-83962103895505536002010-03-17T23:54:48.239-04:002010-03-17T23:54:48.239-04:00Jeremy;
Good point
.......StapeJeremy;<br />Good point<br />.......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-70587767628267369512010-03-17T23:54:20.643-04:002010-03-17T23:54:20.643-04:00Carol:
Perhaps you can get them to think "she...Carol:<br />Perhaps you can get them to think "she can do anything!"<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-26352250196052932822010-03-17T23:53:06.263-04:002010-03-17T23:53:06.263-04:00Willek;
Does he paint those blue lit strippers dow...Willek;<br />Does he paint those blue lit strippers down at the Naked Eye? Was the artist Robert Perrine?<br />...............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-55672044074424799792010-03-17T23:51:25.689-04:002010-03-17T23:51:25.689-04:00Bill;
You really MUST sign your paintings. Otherwi...Bill;<br />You really MUST sign your paintings. Otherwise you can be sure that is the description.<br />.........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-66951626559876566372010-03-17T23:50:28.231-04:002010-03-17T23:50:28.231-04:00Marian;
That is very hard to know. I guess that mi...Marian;<br />That is very hard to know. I guess that might be the hardest part of the whole thing.<br />...............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-71222218633835096682010-03-17T23:49:35.202-04:002010-03-17T23:49:35.202-04:00Philip:
I thought that it wouldn't fly. But it...Philip:<br />I thought that it wouldn't fly. But it was very successful. <br />...............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-18795697762765285042010-03-17T22:38:29.797-04:002010-03-17T22:38:29.797-04:00Sometimes you can control branding, direct brandin...Sometimes you can control branding, direct branding or choose your own branding. Its up to you when you choose what you put out there for the public to see. You can look, behave in a certain way or show specific work that makes you memorable. The work you choose to let the public see is part of your branding. The blog you write is part of your branding. When I hear people say confusing or opposing things about a person (artist, writer,actor, lawyer,etc) it is usually an issue of their branding not being clear or they have not thought about what they do in public. When the branding is a stretch like the NA Luminists you mentioned they can either carry it off or fall on their face. But either way they or someone else was attempting to brand them. There are much subtler ways of branding and some branding occurs as a result of the product not the person or the attempt to brand. Think of Andrew Wyeth and the NY art scene critics who tried to brand his work negatively all his life and the collectors who just kept buying...Mary Byromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12647925500872647350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-73324391884898129532010-03-17T18:44:38.244-04:002010-03-17T18:44:38.244-04:00Excellent point - branding is more than what you t...Excellent point - branding is more than what you tell people you are, it is how they actually perceive you. Everything communicates.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-4608345728852897672010-03-17T18:06:52.453-04:002010-03-17T18:06:52.453-04:00Branding is a problem for me. My 5 word descripti...Branding is a problem for me. My 5 word description might be "she's all over the place."<br />I paint realism AND abstraction. Love both equally. Am successful in both areas. What to do?<br />I just taught a fun workshop on abstract mixed media. Everybody loved it. Then today I came home from the supermarket with a head of cabbage that was just BEGGING to be painted. I speak cabbage and heard him say "paint me with sun coming through my outer leaves and some red grapes in the foreground." And so it goes... I just can't stick to one thing.<br />BTW, Motorola is a suburb of Detroit.Carol Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-10812625583923335332010-03-17T14:30:09.356-04:002010-03-17T14:30:09.356-04:00I also though the term "New American Luminist...I also though the term "New American Luminists" was a stretch till I saw their work. It was terrific and it was really nice to see contemporary view with that old style. One picture of Boston from Hull still sticks in my mind. If the office buildings in the distance were erased it could have been done long ago. Very nicely done. <br /><br />The five word description goes against my grain somewhat, but I have wrestled with the image thing long ago when I was carving birds. I thought about introducing fish, then weathervanes into the line of models I had created but thought I should do them under another name to keep folks from being "Confused"<br /><br />I also think a true artist should be able to do many different kinds of things well and I have tried to do just that in developing my skills. There was a painter who had a gallery on the docks in Nantucket who could paint in many different kinds of styles befitting his subject. He did things from rose covered cottages in quaint impressionistic dabs to blue lit strippers, to racing horse scenes with a brush stroke that saidd excitement. Astounding to me. But probably to make your point, I don't remember his name, but my memory is not as good as it was and it was long ago.willekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-61687739655271212432010-03-17T10:51:03.982-04:002010-03-17T10:51:03.982-04:00Oh-oh, it could be,
"The artist that tells jo...Oh-oh, it could be,<br />"The artist that tells jokes." or<br />"That guy is painting again" or<br />"He doesn't signs his paintings" or<br />... Stape, I never concidered this.<br />I'm sure they're saying something,<br />I know lots of people, so.. I have many paintings on other peoples walls.<br />I may have already damaged my reputation.(but they still hang my art!)billspaintingmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343383719352968590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-85393184073662301322010-03-17T08:25:13.254-04:002010-03-17T08:25:13.254-04:00Good morning, I have been enjoying the Earl Nighti...Good morning, I have been enjoying the Earl Nightingale CD's . I borrowed an old player from a friend.<br />They are motivational and while I am aware of some new neuro-science that makes his brain claims dated, I am keeping an open mind and accepting the spirit of the lecture. I already had one really good idea and put my goal into a one word sentence. words have power.<br /><br />My question is "How do you know when you have succeeded in getting your five word description into the buzz?" Is it when you hear it repeated back to you by some one you are meeting and they say "Oh, you are the artists who....." ?mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-30750107143087905812010-03-17T06:39:11.814-04:002010-03-17T06:39:11.814-04:00I remember that ad in I believe it was American Ar...I remember that ad in I believe it was American Art Review for the "New American Luminists." Actually I think it may have said "The New American Luminists," which I thought was stretch and then some.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.com