Show Notes Episode 12: Is Fiction Communication?

This is an exploration of the parameters of the question, the mapping of where we can go. Yes, no, maybe: is fiction a kind of communication? All three possibilities are explored.

 

The subconscious finger-wagging, let’s avoid.

 

None of the fictional worlds would have existed had the original writer not created those potentialities to carry on in that way… as if you are, as a writer, inventing instruments of imagination. Is that communication? Do we overburden the concept by making it work with one approach?

The construction of imaginative instruments and parameters… is that what fiction writing is?

A stage for the performance of the imagination.

Allowing readers to construct in their imagination because reading is, after all, a creative act.

 

 

 

Non simultaneous communication

What the creator cannot see: the reaction

And the reactor does not impact the directionality of the creation

In fiction writing

Show Notes Episode 11: Is art always human centered?

Is art always human centered? The notion of the anthropomorphic, the idea that art is always human centered, to what extent is that idea valid? Is the landscape the ultimate example of art that humans can create that isn't human centered? Is there something in the fingerprint of human creation that always leave a telling trace? Or is it possible for humans to create art with no trace of the human? And what does such an exploration prompt in the course of explanation? 

Show notes Episode 10: The Life Beyond the Light in the Window

We have this phenomena of artistic creation of the life beyond what’s shown to us

This is a symbolic representation of said phenomena

How does this work in fiction, in non-fiction, in visual conveyances?

The light is also placed there for us, as we are our first audience but modally different. We are the audience to a creative process, with the need to sense that more needs to be said. So we reach to say, to tell about the life beyond the light in the window.

 


Show Notes Episode 9: Crossroads


Two topics at once in this episode: the crossroads and the newcomer. A consideration of the meanings of the crossroads as a hybrid place unto itself. The newcomer is a role that individuals take on, a contextual role. Like the crossroads, the newcomer is intensely aware of then and what's ahead. A consideration of the painting by Emily Shanks, "The Newcomer at School," and an interpretation of what each of the people in the picture represents. 


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emily_Shanks_Newcomer_at_School.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Shanks



Show Notes Episode 8: The temporary and the preserved

Does art celebrate the temporary by trying to preserve it? Or is it an exultation of permanence? Is there such a thing? Is memory the only mold humans have to preserve? Perhaps recycling is the ultimate perpetuity, the collective embrace of reconstitution. When does a moment begin and end?

Louise Nevelson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Nevelson

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81006

Guiseppe Pitrè:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pitr%C3%A8

 

Marcel Duchamp

https://www.moma.org/artists/1634-marcel-duchamp

The Persistence of Memory:

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79018

Show Notes Episode 7: Who's There?

 

What is pervasive? What is elemental? What is contained within demarcations and what runs the gamut of existence? From the first two words of Hamlet to the self portrait and the fruits of or as destruction, to the assertion of the artist as inextricably bound visionary with the talent. Diego Velazquez and the portrait of the self via the portrait of the powerful other. Francis Bacon, the scream, the mouth, the difference between expression and communication. The artist as declarer of what art is, Marcel Duchamp. The critiques of conceptual art, art that does not respond to current events. Invictus, The Desperate Man, a silent scream.

 

Hamlet

https://www.folger.edu/hamlet

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1524/1524-h/1524-h.htm

Rembrandt Self-Portraits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-portraits_by_Rembrandt

Research Barnett Newman’s views on art and his analysis of Cezanne’s apples:

Painters Painting documentary (De Antonio & Tuchman, 1984, page 43)

Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Innocent_X

Francis Bacon’s Portraits of Innocent X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_after_Vel%C3%A1zquez%27s_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X

Interview with David Sylvester in “Fragments of a Portrait”:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13696820/

Marcel Duchamp

https://www.moma.org/artists/1634-marcel-duchamp

Plato's Symposium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)

Gustave Courbet “The Desperate Man”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9sesp%C3%A9r%C3%A9

 

“Invictus”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus

Network the film:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/

 

 

Show notes Episode 6: The Black Box

From Ilya Repin’s paintings in the 1800’s to what our descendants might make of our lives in hundreds of years: the black box and the unknown. Expectations, moments, questions, sketches, input, output, what happens in the process?

The procession can’t be witnessed. Kahlil Gibran “On Children,” and how the present cannot decide the future. Who were the secondary English teachers of the 1700’s? Perhaps the intellectualizing was in the everyday ways of being in various professions. The black box of the past and the future. How storytelling can cultivate awareness of self.

Wikipedia entry on "They Did Not Expect Him": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Did_Not_Expect_Him

Ilya Repin's "Religious Procession in Kursk Province": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Procession_in_Kursk_Governorate

Kahlil Gibran and "On Children"

https://poets.org/poem/children-1

The Black Box Concept in AI and Systems Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

Gutenberg Project Full Text of Jane Eyre:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_(figure_of_speech)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

Show notes Episode 5: What makes a costume real?

Costumes, cosplay, derivative imaginative experiences. When does a costume become real? Is a persona a mask? Can it become real? The pathway on the stage becomes real when the audience walks through it.

How fiction can vibrate to the frequency of real. The audience decides that this is an enactment experience. We put on the costume and align with another form of being self. Synesthesia and the experience of becoming; self to character. Not necessarily synthesis. Derivative imaginative play. Solidly not real. Beyond the cover of the song. The notion of the influence. Costumes as a scaffolding technique of becoming as a creative.

Show notes Episode 4: Tapestries of meaning

The public good, the fallout shelter, we’re having an assembly today. The wonderful ruckus of it all. Thrown together, pieced together, stitches and seams all showing. From Victory Gardens to Patrick Henry, to Giuseppe Pitrè and Guiseppe Arcimboldo; from Great Wave immigrants to rainy day assemblies.

Victory Gardens:

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/victory-gardens-bloom-across-the-1940s-city/

Ottmann, Michelle Melissa Althaus; Maantay, Juliana A.; Grady, Kristen; and Fonte, Nilce N. (2012) "Characterization of Urban Agricultural Practices and Gardeners’ Perceptions in Bronx Community Gardens, New York City.," Cities and the Environment (CATE): Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 13. Available at: http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol5/iss1/13

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20180602042934id_/http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=cate

https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/victory-gardens-make-a-comeback/#:~:text=Bronx%20Green%2DUp%2C%20NYBG's%20community,post%20on%20the%20Hand%20Lens.

 

Guiseppe Pitrè:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pitr%C3%A8

 

Zipes, J. (2009). The Indomitable Giuseppe Pitrè: Research article. Folklore, 120(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00155870802647809

https://www.academia.edu/3384433/The_Indomitable_Giuseppe_Pitr%C3%A8

 

Patrick Henry:

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/hc/america-i-1761-1837/i-the-give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death-speech/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death!

Arcimboldo:

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/142008-four-seasons-one-head

Show Notes for Episode 3: The Universe, End to End; Art and the Scale and Scope of Conveyance

When do the measures of the universe meet in a tight corner? Is the universe of artistic conveyance large enough to embody contrasting notions of validity? Considering Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” Reaching to the ends of a natural ethic from Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse.” Are we reaching to the stars or to the earth right in front of our feet with our artistry? The universe of referentiality from the still life to the landscape. Considering Helen Frankenthaler and Clara Peeters. Considerations of my own works including symphonies in the sink and people of the fork. This is a consideration of the layers of referentiality in the workflow of creating art. Considerations of photography, using Procreate, and how photography and digital tools become part of painting workflow.

References and Searches:

1.     Walt Whitman – "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

Search terms: "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman full text"

  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45480/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer

 

2.     Robert Burns – "To a Mouse"

 Search terms: "To a Mouse Robert Burns full text"

 Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse

 3.     Helen Frankenthaler – Thoughts on abstract painting

 “A red-blue against the white of cotton duck or the beige of linen has the same play in space as the duck, or that duck assumes as important a role as the red shape” (De Antonio & Tuchman, 1984, pp. 82-83).

She further tells us that:

 “The plate that the apples are on is as important as the apples themselves. It isn’t as if background meant the background is a curtain or a drape in front of which there is a table on which there is a plate on which there are apples” (De Antonio & Tuchman, 1984, pp. 82-83).

 Reference: Painters Painting documentary (De Antonio & Tuchman, 1984, pp. 82-83)

 4.     Clara Peeters – "Table with Orange, Olives, and Pie"

 Search terms: "Clara Peeters Table with Orange Olives and Pie painting"

 Link: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/still-life-with-fruits-and-cheese/24d41c72-0228-4701-8baf-b888a6e8882e

People of the Fork painting 40” x 40”

People of the Fork digital painting

One of the “Symphonies in the Sink” paintings

One of the “Shelf Life” paintings

An article where I discuss artistic processes and pedagogical approaches and reference abstract art and Frankenthaler in a different context:

“Constructing a Pedagogy of Apparentness”

Show Notes - Episode 2: A New Gorgon

1. Roland Barthes – Mythologies

  • Search: "Roland Barthes Mythologies summary"

  • Link: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56917/mythologies/9780099529750.html

2. The Odyssey by Homer

  • Search: "The Odyssey Homer full text"

  • Link: http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html

3. Artemisia Gentileschi – "Judith Beheading Holofernes"

  • Search: "Artemisia Gentileschi Judith Beheading Holofernes painting"

  • Link: https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/judith-beheading-holofernes

4. Francisco Goya – "The Third of May 1808"

  • Search: "Francisco Goya The Third of May painting"

  • Link: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-3rd-of-may-1808-in-madrid/fe6f5c01-8b85-4e70-b56a-7bb58b70982e

5. Édouard Manet – "The Execution of Emperor Maximilian"

  • Search: "Édouard Manet Execution of Emperor Maximilian painting"

  • Link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436945

6. Yue Minjun – "Execution"

  • Search: "Yue Minjun Execution painting"

  • Link: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/yue-execution-t07608

7. Shakespeare’s Macbeth

  • Search: "Macbeth full text"

  • Link: https://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html

8. Chiaroscuro (Art Term)

Show Notes - Episode 1: The Reaches of Artistic Testimony

In this pilot episode, the foundation of the notion of “An Infinite Language” is explored. From the process of painterly seeing to Ozymandias and the enduring voice of the arts and the artist.
Some highlights:
Can you paint with words?
The artistic voice is more enduring than absolute power. 
The everyday person has the power to tell, to convey and sculpt our notions of what happened.
What voice carries on?
Creative output is an infinite language, it cannot be relegated to, cannot be limited to solving the world’s problems. Art is not a for-hire form of expression that is only used for problem solving.
What is the contrast between Ozymandias and the message in Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty? "The New Colossus" is a message of hope, a claim that the way of lifting up is the golden door. Other works discussed: Guernica by Picasso, David's the Coronation of Napoleon 

Key References:

1.     Percy Bysshe Shelley – "Ozymandias"
Search: "Ozymandias poem Percy Bysshe Shelley"
Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

2.     Pablo Picasso – "Guernica"
Search: "Picasso Guernica painting"
Link: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/guernica

3.     Jacques-Louis David – "The Coronation of Napoleon"
Search: "Jacques Louis David The Coronation of Napoleon painting"
Link: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/coronation-emperor-napoleon-i

4.     Emma Lazarus – "The New Colossus"
Search: "Emma Lazarus The New Colossus poem"
Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus

5.     The Colossus of Rhodes
Search: "The Colossus of Rhodes statue"
Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Colossus-of-Rhodes

6.     Robert Motherwell – General Search
Search: "Robert Motherwell artist"
Link: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/robert-motherwell-1654

7.     Jack Whitten – General Search
Search: "Jack Whitten artist"
Link: https://jackwhittenart.com/

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