in my case, Cheerskep...... my hands are just a tool controlled by the mind . On occasions an aesthetic accident will happen. mando
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, September 4, 2011 4:05:12 PM Subject: "not the hand" > William writes: > > "...it can be > troubling for a philosopher-king to admit, as Leonardo insisted, that > artmaking > was an art of the (noble) mind and not the hand." > > I don't know the context of Leonardo's remark, so I can't be sure what he > had in mind, but perhaps this is a pertinent response: When I have > contemplated a work that occasioned in me what I'd call an "aesthetic >experience", > > I've often been ready to credit both the mind and "hand" of the creator. > Certainly this has happened when I've been listening to a great pianist or > watching a great dancer. Other pianists might have comparable digital > dexterity and celerity, but the action of the great pianist can deliver more > than just those gifts. > > Many singers knew the music on the page as well as Pavarotti, they "knew > where the music was", but the mind was not enough. Only his larynx could > deliver the way he could > > I've read an actor commenting on the way another actor just "filled space" > as he walked across the stage. "I just can't do that," the first actor > said. > > I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if any visual creators have looked > upon another painter or illustrator and said, in effect, "his hand just knows > something". When I've contemplated "The Line King", Al Hirschfeld, his > result was often only because his hand could execute what his mind "saw". > > I've seen Kate's work up close, and wondered just how the hell she does it > -- not just the envisioning of the thing, but the execution.
