How to paint, in new idea

[Allan Rahbek]

[QUOTE=SB Wang,
cannot overstep the limitations.

In art we must also subordinate the limits of our choice.
When we have chosen a medium, say oils, everything must be said with oil paint. You express yourself in an oil world. I look at it through the oil glasses and understand it with my oil mind.
Or like H. C. Andersen says in The ugly Duckling "The world, says mother duck, is all the way out to the stone fence by the church yard."

The simpler mean that are used the stronger expression.

I feel often annoyed when I note the influence of reference photos used. That

[SB Wang]

Allan:
Van Long, an American writer, praised Denmark. I can see why now.

I rewrote my question: "When we look at a cross section of a knife: if artist's ability is the apex of the triangle, i.e. an edge of a knife could be worn down. What are the two sides of that triangle, in figurative sense ( to sharpen on)"?

[Allan Rahbek]

The knife fill the gab between the mirror of the world and your minds eye.

If you come out with anything sharp from that confrontation, it may be art.

Of course it can be turned down and used for cutting, that be negative and contrary to art.

Allan

[Allan Rahbek]

I may have been a little short in answering the above challenge.

Mirror of the world, means how the world present it self to us and how we perceive it. That is the one side of the triangle.
The other side is what we choose to pas on to our fellow human beings. That is the things that expresses our mind, seen with our minds eye.

If it comes out as art depends on how fine my instrument is tuned.

Allan

[SB Wang]

Allan:
Sword in Mao's poem:
http://www.iusb.edu/~journal/1999/Paper8.html

Towering aloft
Above the earth
Great Kunlun
You have witnessed all that was fairest
In the human world
As they fly across the sky, the three million dragons Of white jade
Freeze you with piercing cold
In the days of summer
Your melting torrents
Fill streams and rivers till they overflow
Changing men
Into fish and turtles
What man can pass judgment
On all the good and evil
You have done
These thousand autumns?
But today
I say to you, Kunlun
You don’t need your great height
You don’t need all that snow!
If I could lean on the sky
I would draw my sword
And cut you in three pieces
One I would send to Europe
One to America
And one we would keep in China.
Thus would a great peace
Reign through the world
For all the world would share our warmth and cold

[SB Wang]

Optimistic...Mao foresaw the future two decades earlier:
" Marxists are not fortune-tellers. They should, and indeed can, only indicate the general direction of future developments and changes; they should not and cannot fix the day and the hour in a mechanistic way."
"It is like a ship far out at sea whose mast-head can already be seen from the shore; it is like the morning sun in the east whose shimmering rays are visible from a high mountain top; it is like a child about to be born moving restlessly in its mother's womb".

On heroism:
"We...have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations".

[Allan Rahbek]

SB,

I am a little confused, again... I honestly can

[Allan Rahbek]

Hi SB,

I don

[SB Wang]

"Pierce through blue sky without ruining the edge of a sword", another phrase in Mao's Long March poem. Mao praised the heroes, especially himself. For the sword, he struggled more than two decades, overcame so many hardship beyond our imagination.

[SB Wang]

Thanks, Allan!
I've learned a lot from you and everyone here.
Reading an article about the Long March by an American student, as if looking at a mirror, I've realized how difficult to paint a profound portrait. His paper is quite good but missed some key points. A blemish in otherwise perfect thing.
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