Monday, May 3, 2010

Why Has Time Existed for so Long?

For some time, I've been working on an oil painting I've titled "Whiskey Priest." It depicts a clergyman with a headdress on fire, as well as traditional Vatican robes with a flask in a front pocket. I decided on Spanish-type brush strokes because I felt those weren't used very often or often enough in portraits. (Traditional Spanish brush strokes, by the way. The cake-y, messy paint with a lot of incomplete lines. Actually, I could save the reader some time and describe it as Fauve inspired. [Also, I know Fauve is a French movement! Just sayin', looks a lot like Spanish brush strokes.])

Then what do I find? Maurice De Vlaminck using nearly the exact same blotched brush strokes in his portrait of Apollinaire. (Would link the painting, but the copy-right restrictions inhibit me to do so.) I feel I should know that using inspiration from a particular movement will conclude in a painting similar to another painter's. I also feel I could have invented those brush strokes on my own, bringing me to my point: why has time existed for so long? Without any inspiration I could have been Le Fauve, I could have defined the absurd and I could have made fire or something to that effect. Everything good has been done in the 20th century. (Excluding fire, that's probably a little bit older, 19th century?)

Well, two paragraphs of whining is always fun to get out. Therapeutic, if I may say so! Also, I feel like mentioning something positive; 'Notorious Lightning' has been re-released on vinyl with a faster tempo on three songs! To me, this means it's only a matter of time until 'City of Daughters' will be released again with "School, and the Girls Who Go There" actually on it.

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