Hi Lavona, As a painter I've used all colors together and as much as possible in all kind of combinations. Often I've been attacked "in my own culture" that my choice of colors were "too vivid" , "too eclectic", "too much" etcetera.
This is good for Latino painters or East Asia ones but not for Belgians, hey? Very funny how they try to reduce the colors in painting under the pretext of "harmony". The use of colors becomes a doctrine, a set of rules to follow and if you refuse to play by their set of rules you're not allowed to the happy few of "real painters" (exclusion again thru' the personal choice or use of colors) You know my provocative nature a bit. On the question what are your favorite colors I have often replied "black and white". Shocking people to the bone because 1. Black and white are not considered as real colors by a kind of establishment who only show their superiority in stupidity in a way 2. White is the result of fusion of all colors, every teenager who studied science knows this 3. B & W are the great expressive colors of all graphics 4. B & W are the great expressive colors of ancient movies (and I don't see the same kind of expressionism in the colored movies, a few exceptions exist of course, like Kieslowski) Of course my favorite colors are all the colors of the rainbow dear and beyond that, even the ones we can't see. The great quality of modern printing machines is that they can focus and distinguish between "millions" of color shades and gradations and we are asked to isolate one or a few ones as "favorite"?! Come on, this is a request for mutilation and for self mutilation. Next time someone asks us for a "favorite list of anything" we burn the call to cleanse ourselves of that garbage thinking. Hey, I'm back to the garbage, okay, let me see what I can find of myself in the trash bin. Is your mail box enough for the trash of a Brussels' sprout? Postal Greetings, Guido "thousand and one shades" Vermeulen http://groups.msn.com/POPOPEINT/guidovermeulenartiste.msnw Memorial BLOG http://shadowtributes.blogspot.com BLOG on artist books and small print publications http://boklist.blogspot.com FRIOUR zine blog(s): http://Friour1.blogspot.com A BLOG ON MY LIFE IN BRUSSELS http://brusselsesjoekes.blogspot.com " If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon - -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: LaVona Sherarts [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zondag 2 april 2006 16:02 Aan: ma-network@yahoogroups.com Onderwerp: RE: (",) favorite color Oh Guido, yes, you are right. I agree about that and don't mean to put other peoples' favorites down. Put yellow near my face and I look to a casket. Put red near my face and you think I am going to dance. It is my opinion of course, and you might disagree. No problem, sweetie, I like yellow,. I my family I now have all the colors of the world. Sakura is the name of my great grand daughter who carries all. Is this another mailart project comin" up? LaV --- Guido Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an interesting side debate. > Favorite things = self damaging, well yes because it > is damaging > altogother. > When you say this is my favorite you exclude all > others, meaning you put > others down for a so called favorite which is often > dictated by fashion or > "the culture of the moment in your own soicety or > environment". > A quote of a Flemish poet I saw recently in the > Brussels Center for Fine > Arts (where I work in the evenings as a second job): > "admiration and favoritism are the blindfolds for > people who are able to > see" > This in a way is more or less also that what Guido > B. says. > The damaging of excluding leads to self damaging, to > a reduction of > personal vision, heart and soul. > Everything is connected, when you hurt someone, you > hurt yourself. > > I was 16 or 17 and I read a book by a contemporary > author (Willy > Spillebeen) and had the chance to meet him with a > group of students. > His book starts also with "the dangers of > favoritism". > He used the example or the metaphor of a group of > young kittens that are > born. What to do with them? > Well, what are the most pretty kittens? (your > favorites) > They stayed alive, the others were killed without > remorse. > This strong image (for a teenager anyway) lead me to > write a poem and to > have a very suspiscious attitude to all kind of hit > parades or lists like > "give me your favorite color, author, book, music > piece, femail or male > person" and so on. > How can we always narrow us down so much? > We are able to see the beauty of differences in a > complex world but still > we tend to isolate a few things and embrace that as > "the ones". > Justice is also blindfolded for a reason, I guess... > > Postal Greetings, > > Guido Vermeulen > http://groups.msn.com/POPOPEINT/guidovermeulenartiste.msnw > > Memorial BLOG > http://shadowtributes.blogspot.com > > BLOG on artist books and small print publications > http://boklist.blogspot.com > > FRIOUR zine blog(s): > http://Friour1.blogspot.com > > A BLOG ON MY LIFE IN BRUSSELS > http://brusselsesjoekes.blogspot.com > > > > > " If everyone demanded peace instead of another > television set, then > there'd be peace." > > - John Lennon - > > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Tamara Wyndham [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: zaterdag 1 april 2006 14:39 > Aan: ma-network@yahoogroups.com > Onderwerp: (",) favorite color > > What a new idea to me, that having a favorite color > would be a "self damaging choice". I had always > thought of it as a kind of self expression of > individuality. But, you are pointing out that it can > also be self limiting. > > It is in meditative states that we make no > judgements. > > - T > > --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:13:47 -0800 (PST) > From: guido bondioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: suicide continued. > > > > --- LaVona Sherarts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I haven't had a tv set since 1957. > This does not prevent you from adopting the fiction > derived sentimentality of TV. > > I felt the pain of the loss of a good person. > There > is nothing > > egocentric about that in my mind > To me it seems extremely egocentric. There is no > loss > to you. what would confuse you in that way if not > some > constant irritation to conform such as is offered by > media? > Just as you probable have a favorite color, a self > damaging choice, You have many other unconscious > self > damaging choices. Feeling loss about someone else > taking care of themselves can only come from the > expectations placed on you by your choice of > associates just in the way you acquired a favorite > color. These responses are the work of fiction > writers. Get them in books, at church or where ever. > They remain self damaging. > > Yes, the people need to go but I have a right to > > feel a loss just as you do not. > We have many rights to do wrong. There is little > reason to use those rights just because they are > there. Use damages us as well as the rest of the > world. > As you know by now at age 72, there are many GOOD > ways > to be evil. And that phrase reminds me of the good > Baptists I witnessed burning to death a black man in > Arizona in 1947. All those people believed they were > doing GOOD. Good seems less relative than many > people > prefer to believe. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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