tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post3902806264361765807..comments2023-06-19T04:45:03.558-04:00Comments on *Mnemosyne*: Feature: Cheryl & Janet Snell Day 2Kerowyn Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05427992468681976349noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post-46316602418998259882009-09-30T12:13:04.845-04:002009-09-30T12:13:04.845-04:00Thanks Chris & Nanette. I'm glad you'r...Thanks Chris & Nanette. I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'm having fun too.<br /><br />JanetCheryl and Janet Snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00318690027422849905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post-10231971705308471822009-09-30T01:22:24.880-04:002009-09-30T01:22:24.880-04:00Hi again.
I think this woman is beautiful, and qu...Hi again.<br /><br />I think this woman is beautiful, and quite determined.<br /><br />xo<br />n.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post-39980946231276443102009-09-29T19:51:22.404-04:002009-09-29T19:51:22.404-04:00Thanks for the further info on the art... which I ...Thanks for the further info on the art... which I find very striking. Can't articulate the way the others have as to why. But the portrait is very compelling.<br /><br />I'm loving the interview questions as well. thanks.<br /><br />Chris BrooksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post-34962131261415493172009-09-29T17:58:45.704-04:002009-09-29T17:58:45.704-04:00Wow, what great comments! Thank you,fleuve-souterr...Wow, what great comments! Thank you,fleuve-souterrain, Tim and John.<br /><br />This drawing is one of a series of about 30 (others can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/13617008@N08/)that use a figurative head in an abstract space to focus the relationship between the figurative and abstract elements. To let the viewer experience the psychology of the human figure, I connect the head to its surroundings with various spatial elements. They establish the psychological relationship between head and the space. I am especially interested in what happens when the space becomes an image, which I guess happened with the marks on the right that look like an arm. It's really just space.The drawing is not narrative and is meant only to convey an emotion, not a story. <br /><br />The face could be an archetype. Most women have felt like the subject looks, and I'm glad the general mood shows through. <br /><br />The connection to Schiele is in the way the eyes and nose cross. Schiele used that alot, and<br />I wanted to try it.<br /><br />JCheryl and Janet Snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00318690027422849905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post-87944113413730198702009-09-29T06:32:40.926-04:002009-09-29T06:32:40.926-04:00I too had to research Schiele - glad I did. Am in...I too had to research Schiele - glad I did. Am intrigued and engaged by your art and now am also intrigued and engaged by what else I've stumbled upon as a result... not sure where the falling dominoes are taking me, but am enjoying the journey.John B. Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11497208622485346132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post-85142223272131700022009-09-28T21:04:21.715-04:002009-09-28T21:04:21.715-04:00Not being familiar with Schiele, I left a one-word...Not being familiar with Schiele, I left a one-word impression. Then I got to wondering. So I did some reading about Egon Schiele. Fascinating stuff. I'm surprised I didn't know about this proto-Expressionist, since his era means so much to me. The time in which *The Magic Mountain* is set...the absurd convulsions during the Great War...the childhood reminiscences of Bruno Schulz...the dark, sensuousness of Scriabin's piano music. So many psychic shadows falling on Europe and Eastern Europe. Such a rich matrix for eruptions of unbridled, daemonic art!<br /><br />So the work before us "After Schiele" takes on layers of significance and sends the imagination off on tangents. I can't make out the vertical object on the right. Is that an upthrust arm? The meaning of this picture must have much to do with that strange form. <br /><br />But to the portrait: this woman looks iconic, like a Medieval nun. She wears the expression of one blasted by circumstance, yet determined to survive. She is indignant, and to hell with the prick who done her wrong. Who needs him?<br /><br />Is this Valerie (Wally) Neuzil, who Schiele abandoned when his free-loving spirit wafted toward the Harms sisters instead? Or perhaps, our figure is an archetype -- partly Wally and partly all women who have been left bitter but with head held high after shabby treatment.Tim Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02077264442946829918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post-77447781451163772722009-09-28T19:36:29.421-04:002009-09-28T19:36:29.421-04:00like the combination! art and words that make us t...like the combination! art and words that make us think :)fleuve-souterrainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671460507098082150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308476111836253756.post-32597841204905845392009-09-28T19:13:41.650-04:002009-09-28T19:13:41.650-04:00Striking.Striking.Tim Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02077264442946829918noreply@blogger.com