Comments for about art - the book - a blog http://blog.aboutartbook.com Stan Berning Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:52:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on “A Natural History Part Five” / Tulsa ‘09 / Stan Berning by fettenberg http://blog.aboutartbook.com/2010/01/31/a-natural-history-part-five-paintings-from-09-stan-berning/%/comment-page-1#comment-82 fettenberg Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:44:59 +0000 http://blog.aboutartbook.com/?p=439#comment-82 read some more on your blog tonite which revealed your insites upon wrapping up the new series that went on to be shown in Tulsa. As I experience your various outputs, it feels as though we are kind of alter egos, except you have spent more exhaustive time than I have spelling out in words what the smearing has meant for the creative process. Your words reveal many secrets. If this world isn't totally dumb and blind to the importance of what you've created through writing and plastic media, then, G willing, you will be sitting in the 'king's chair' shortly. I do so hope it comes to pass. F read some more on your blog tonite which revealed your insites upon wrapping up the new series that went on to be shown in Tulsa.

As I experience your various outputs, it feels as though we are kind of alter egos, except you have spent more exhaustive time than I have spelling out in words what the smearing has meant for the creative process. Your words reveal many secrets. If this world isn’t totally dumb and blind to the importance of what you’ve created through writing and plastic media,
then, G willing, you will be sitting in the ‘king’s chair’ shortly.

I do so hope it comes to pass.

F

]]> Comment on “A Natural History Part Five” / Tulsa ‘09 / Stan Berning by fettenberg http://blog.aboutartbook.com/2010/01/31/a-natural-history-part-five-paintings-from-09-stan-berning/%/comment-page-1#comment-81 fettenberg Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:21:24 +0000 http://blog.aboutartbook.com/?p=439#comment-81 Hi Stan --Lucky to get a faster connection than a day ago. But I am very excited to see the progression of this latest series. Sum totally: heart beat faster & I know I respond to the - to me- the most passionate and seemingly the most effortless pieces. I have some emphatic responses against some of the more controlled-looking ones. In any event, I see that you're up to a high-wire act: you may sometimes fall, but your guts and verve get you right up on the line again, with added vigor. This time I really would like to book one of these pieces of yrs for my part of our trade ( that is if the price level isnt all skewed & my favorites arent all on their way to their new happy hunting grounds ). Hopehopehope the show & a tidal wave of interest will engulf all the paralyzed folks out there & make them realize they can actually walk and even run again..with the help of your painting. With them receiving this prayer, they'll be able to part with the dollars and cents they thought they didnt have. Mit tiefster Verbundenheit, Frank Ettenberg Hi Stan –Lucky to get a faster connection than a day ago. But I am very excited to see the progression of this latest series. Sum totally: heart beat faster & I know I respond to the - to me- the most passionate and seemingly the most effortless pieces. I have some emphatic responses against some of the more controlled-looking ones. In any event, I see that you’re up to a high-wire act: you may sometimes fall, but your guts and verve get you right up on the line again, with added vigor.

This time I really would like to book one of these pieces of yrs for my part of our trade ( that is
if the price level isnt all skewed & my favorites arent all on their way to their new happy hunting grounds ). Hopehopehope the show & a tidal wave of interest will engulf all the paralyzed folks out there & make them realize they can actually walk and even run again..with the help of your painting. With them receiving this prayer, they’ll be able to part with the dollars and cents they thought they didnt have.

Mit tiefster Verbundenheit, Frank Ettenberg

]]> Comment on letters and notes - your face / Alberto Oliveira by Danielle Shelley http://blog.aboutartbook.com/2009/07/09/letters-and-notes-your-face/%/comment-page-1#comment-40 Danielle Shelley Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:16:52 +0000 http://blog.aboutartbook.com/?p=125#comment-40 Stan, I got interested in Alberto Oliviera and his work via your blog. You can see the rest of Alberto's face at: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/a/albertooliveira/ Another half-portrait at: http://www.artreview.com/profile/AlbertoOliveira Your thoughts about art are so interesting, and you express them so well. (As a former writer, I really appreciate your writing.) Thanks for giving them to us through your blog. I didn't realize you had just had a book published--I'm looking forward to reading it. I'm still pondering your comments about my art--thanks again for sharing them with me. I also work to be present in the moment, in fact it's what I most want in my life; it's been my ongoing quest for decades. I see my painting as a meditative practice. Although my current work doesn't show the process of its making in the same way earlier work does, I believe that if the artist can be truly present in the making, whether the history of the making is visible or not, that presence is communicated through the work and can help the viewer to experience presence as well. (My artist statements often focus on the quest for presence through art.) My favorite quote: Be Here Now. That seems so simple, so trite, but it's the most important thing in life, in my opinion. Cheers, Danielle Stan, I got interested in Alberto Oliviera and his work via your blog. You can see the rest of Alberto’s face at: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/a/albertooliveira/
Another half-portrait at: http://www.artreview.com/profile/AlbertoOliveira

Your thoughts about art are so interesting, and you express them so well. (As a former writer, I really appreciate your writing.) Thanks for giving them to us through your blog. I didn’t realize you had just had a book published–I’m looking forward to reading it.

I’m still pondering your comments about my art–thanks again for sharing them with me.

I also work to be present in the moment, in fact it’s what I most want in my life; it’s been my ongoing quest for decades. I see my painting as a meditative practice.

Although my current work doesn’t show the process of its making in the same way earlier work does, I believe that if the artist can be truly present in the making, whether the history of the making is visible or not, that presence is communicated through the work and can help the viewer to experience presence as well. (My artist statements often focus on the quest for presence through art.)

My favorite quote: Be Here Now. That seems so simple, so trite, but it’s the most important thing in life, in my opinion.

Cheers,
Danielle

]]> Comment on dear reader / a painting from the last chapter / Stan Berning by JoAnne Meckstroth http://blog.aboutartbook.com/2009/07/06/dear-reader-a-painting-from-the-last-chapter-new-paintings-from-09/%/comment-page-1#comment-37 JoAnne Meckstroth Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:46:17 +0000 http://blog.aboutartbook.com/?p=67#comment-37 I just love your new pieces,especially #44. The vibrant color and movement makes me "stop" in the midst of busyness and dream. It pulls on my potential and stirs me to dream about tomorrow - what I can still do and be! Life without potential and purpose would simply be an endless string of activities with little significance. Thanks for providing a place to pause, dream and expose my potential! I just love your new pieces,especially #44. The vibrant color and movement makes me “stop” in the midst of busyness and dream. It pulls on my potential and stirs me to dream about tomorrow - what I can still do and be! Life without potential and purpose would simply be an endless string of activities with little significance. Thanks for providing a place to pause, dream and expose my potential!

]]> Comment on letters and notes - Hieronymous Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” / Tatiana by JoAnne Meckstroth http://blog.aboutartbook.com/2009/07/07/hieronymous-boschs-the-garden-of-earthly-delights/%/comment-page-1#comment-36 JoAnne Meckstroth Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:21:49 +0000 http://blog.aboutartbook.com/?p=77#comment-36 Insightful thoughts and exciting to know that at a very early age we are impacted by a word, a painting, an action. Look forward to more. About art...I do not have the capability to comment of Hieronymous Bosch’s work. Insightful thoughts and exciting to know that at a very early age we are impacted by a word, a painting, an action. Look forward to more. About art…I do not have the capability to comment of Hieronymous Bosch’s work.

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