Joe, I guess you didn't look like much of a prospect to buy his artworks. No other reason to be rude. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > On Sep 25, 2011, at 20:52 , William Robb wrote: > >> On 25/09/2011 2:40 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >>> I don't care who said it, it is an ignorant and arrogant comment, >>> unworthy of a great artist. >>> >> Quite often, the great artists are both ignorant and arrogant. >> They are, after all, merely differently gifted versions of ourselves, and >> they have, by dint of their gift, more reason than most to be arrogant. >> Why should someone who can slap paint on a canvas in a pleasing way, or >> press a button on a little black box at the right time be any less of a >> human being than anyone else? >> Besides, it might have been said in jest. > > I'll second Robb's explanation. > > San Francisco in the 60s. One of my good friends, an amazing artist, at that > time using gesso and Rapidographs of the smallest wire, was drawing complex > miniature scenes on poster board that at first and from a distance seemed to > be a portrait, or a Haight street scene. Once you stepped in and studied it, > you became enthralled in the internal goings on. He has since moved on, and > grown into painting, sculpture, studied in France and God knows where else. > He never went to school after high school. After failing as a real estate > magnate (never started) and drug distributor, he never had another job. > Everything was his art, and being social enough to the right people who would > buy his works, or send him on his way to travel and paint, sculpt, etc.. > > I stopped by his studio some 20 years ago when I was in San Francisco for > MacWorld, thinking how great it would be to catch up after a long absence. > Found him working on the largest piece of jade I'd ever seen (could have been > something similar, but he told me jade) that a woman had shipped to him to do > with as he saw fit for her. He had fashioned it generally as the bust of a > Roman warrior, wearing a helmet with a crest that was tall in front, small at > the back. The crest consisted of a dozen elephants, each one smaller than the > one in front. Each was topped with the large, covered hathi howdah the > Maharaja would use, the drapings from that were detailed in bas-relief. > Inside of each was a person sitting on a supported pillow. The person was > about 1/2 inch tall and smaller, but had details on the face of a nose, eyes, > mouth, and topped with a hat. The rest of the helmet was similarly detailed, > as was what showed of his garment. The skin was smooth and flawless. > > As I remarked on the piece, Jim blasted me with a long tirade about how I had > graduated from art school, but had wasted my talents by working for "the > man", learning about technology, a turncoat to the art world, a useless turd > on the face of the earth. Followed by, "Get out!". > > That sound like a true artist? http://www.artwithin.com/art/d0/a19/ > > He used to be on Facebook. Not there anymore. I don't know if he is still > alive. > > Joseph McAllister > Pentaxian > > http://gallery.me.com/jomac > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
