Culminating Activity: The Art Show

It’s over. What a relief it is. All that weight on the shoulders can be dangerously debilitating. All the hard work creating and preparing for this culminating activity was simply exhausting. It took me a day to recover. These are some quick snap shots of the opening. I will try and take some better shots - framed and cropped – for a future blog entry. The show will last until June 18th so see it before time runs out. I am impressed with the work. My fellow colleagues are artists and teachers!

How can you instruct others to create if you are not a creator? The cerebral part of art education is important, yet the intuitive, hands-on aspect of creating is irreplaceable. The intelligence infused into a one’s mind and body through creative three-dimensional problem solving is crucial and fundamental to a complete education. The difference between talking about it and actually doing it is the difference between fantasy and reality. Don’t talk about painting. Don’t study about creating. Just do it! End the talk. Do the creative, imaginative fine arts locomotion movement walk. We must have hands-on, project-based art education. Not static-based, dullard-based, cerebral only art education. You gotta get into art. Sure, it’s a messy proposition, it’s supposed to be. Be a creator. Use and exercise your imagination. Make your mark, impact a soul even if it is only your own.

Last Class Music Performance

Art sketchbook

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Art sketchbook

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Agate Imagery - Art Inspired By Nature

These agates appear to have imitated my own work.  What do you think?  Or is it the other way around?  

Thatcheria Mirabilis - Art Inspired By Nature

I am in love.  Elegance, grace, and simplicity.  That is what I love about the Miraculous Thatcher Shell.  Discovered in 1877, it is found from Japan to northwestern Australia in 825 feet of water.  As an artist I am inspired by such alluring elegant proportions.  Nature and art are linked.  Nature inspires imagery I create.  Nature inspired Frank Lloyd Wright.  In fact this shell inspired the design of the Guggenheim. 

"What we must know in organic architecture is not found in books.  It is necessary to have recourse to Nature with a capital N in order to get an education.  Necessary to learn from trees, flowers, shells - objects which contain truths of form following function.  If we stopped there, then it would be merely imitation.  But if we dig deep enough ... we arrive at secrets of form related to purpose that would make of the tree a building and of the building a tree."

Frank Lloyd Wright      

These beautiful shells remind me of the beach and diving.  I gotta get to the azul water in Cozumel this summer and dive away!  Looking forward to three dives a day for two or more weeks.  Certainly over 40 dives if time allows!  Come on down and dive!

Here's a great 70's beach tune.  Remember it?  Those 70's and this great upbeat beach beat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1m5ieCWCK8

Flaming Blue Water

Playing around with Adobe Photoshop...Elements 8.  Pretty cool.  Transforming my own work into new imagery.  My artwork is about process as well as product.  It is a performance as well as outcome.  More intuition than introspection.  Thinking about the work might hinder the process and mangle the result.  I control some variables in the creative process, yet the "accident factor" is a major player in the final outcome.  This "accident factor" or chance is the crucial ingredient for successful imagery.  It is also the main reason for imagery failure.  The difference between diamonds and coal; the chance and place of pressure.  The ingredients are there, paint and painter, yet chance plays its theatrical part in the creative process and final product.

The original piece is compelling.  I did not plan the imagery, chance played its part and produced a winner image.  Photoshop adds its own transforming power.  Chance provides a beauty that is natural and authentic. An "untouched-by-human-hands" feel and look draws the viewer into a world of wonder and conjecture.  How was it made?  Is it petrified?  Mineralized?  Agatized?  What kind of natural wonder is this?  What part of the globe produced this artifact?  Was it from the land of the lost or living?  Such interrogatories the inquisitorius inquisitor must ask when viewing the ineffable imagery.

Checkout the original at joelglorvigen.com. (http://joelglorvigen.com/index.php?p=1_7_Flaming-Blue-Water)