Meeting references - Feb 18th
Here are the references that came up today. Art teaching site that's so good for all of us. https://www.artpedagogy.com/ The page from art pedagogy that's about instructional art. https://www.artpedagogy.com/instructions.html I watched the rest of the David Lynch film. It starts with the creative process, then shifts to meditation before circling back to creativity at the end. Worth watching if you're into that kind of thing. Just realised he passed away last month—I had no idea. https://youtu.be/EPTQVXwCkbw?si=hnt57z3x-lN3_4aP
keep up the good work everyone...
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After the meeting I was thinking about creativity and the process of making art as opposed to the production of excellent finished pieces. I got thinking about my trip to the National Gallery, London, in December. The National Gallery was celebrating it's 200th anniversary and had an exhibition to co-incide with this about Constable's Haywain.
After our call yesterday I remembered that displayed near the actual Haywain painting they had hung a full size painted study for the scene. At the time it struck me how we see Constable as a genius and we look at his paintings in isolation as completed masterpieces and rightly so BUT I realised in that moment that Constable would have put in 1000s of hours of study and experienced the ups and downs of the creative life.
Here is some blurb about the exhibition from a press release with details of what I mean...
"The artist’s sheer thoroughness in shaping his craft comes to the core. Incredibly, Constable sketched the scene for 20 years before completing the final version in his London studio. He is seen producing multiple studies for The Hay Wain alone in varying dimensions. A full-size preparatory painting, never intended to be sold, shows the Suffolk man mapping out and readjusting the composition – carrying a lively energy all of its own. He is seen to be working out the distribution of light and colour across the work."