Jim,
I regret that any of
my comments sounded like Modern Art bashing. I was relating the newsletter's assertion that we would be better served if we didn't paint for the sake of sales but rather paint for the sake of paint and see what sells.
I paint what I paint but my daughter, like many a youth before her, prefers trendy things. Modern art is a lucrative trend in her observation. She views my art as a thing that must be lucrative and so her conclusion drew her into the conversation to which I refer.
My point is that the only way I can utilize my raison d'etre and really let go and create that which is in my deepest stirrings is to take my ego completely out of the equation. I must not put the condition on my creativity that it will appeal to the masses, or I will not have to worry about the archival quality of my work. This holds true regardless of which particular mass we are pandering to.
p. s. This is why portraiture is so attractive to me. With a clear cut subject and a private sale it serves as the lucrative side of my art while I continue to develop the master works within me.
