Comments on: Ask The Budda - October 09 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09 Art, Animals, and the Creative Experience Sun, 20 May 2012 10:54:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8509 MonaMajorowicz Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:22:50 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8509 You certainly didn't heavy it up. I think I struck a nerve with a few folks talking about trends and fads that was unexpected. And I do seem to be taking things a whole lot less serious these days. I spend a great deal of time being amused at life. You certainly didn’t heavy it up. I think I struck a nerve with a few folks talking about trends and fads that was unexpected. And I do seem to be taking things a whole lot less serious these days. I spend a great deal of time being amused at life.

]]> By: Angela Finney http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8507 Angela Finney Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:03:02 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8507 I knew it was tongue in cheek to a degree, but thought it was something on your mind. Sorry to heavy up on Budda's parade. I knew it was tongue in cheek to a degree, but thought it was something on your mind. Sorry to heavy up on Budda’s parade.

]]> By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8498 MonaMajorowicz Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:31:55 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8498 <strong>Angela,</strong> No, art fairs aren't really the hot spot for trends. At least not out here.I did get a few queries about trends in my blog searches (as well as allot of bizarre stuff that you wouldn't believe.) But what got me thinking about it was Bev Doolittle who started the phenomen of hidden Images work. Also there was a time you couldn't crack open an art mag without wolves being on just about every page. Mostly I posted that fad thing because I thought I was being clever. I do amuse myself too easily I think. :) Angela,

No, art fairs aren’t really the hot spot for trends. At least not out here.I did get a few queries about trends in my blog searches (as well as allot of bizarre stuff that you wouldn’t believe.) But what got me thinking about it was Bev Doolittle who started the phenomen of hidden Images work. Also there was a time you couldn’t crack open an art mag without wolves being on just about every page.

Mostly I posted that fad thing because I thought I was being clever. I do amuse myself too easily I think. :)

]]> By: Angela Finney http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8491 Angela Finney Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:30:45 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8491 Was it the art fair, or something else, that got you thinking about fads in art? I think the photographers are generally very faddy. Was it the art fair, or something else, that got you thinking about fads in art? I think the photographers are generally very faddy.

]]> By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8463 MonaMajorowicz Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:17:18 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8463 These are extremely well thought out comments<strong> Robert.</strong> Thank you. Interesting that you said ravens were a fad. That never got this way I don't think. I seen a few artists creating raven series but never enough to consider it a popular trend. Not like wolves or hidden images. But then I live in the Midwest and even though I ran the framing gallery for a museum, we still geared toward locally popular and influential art. At any rate a raven painting is on my short list for upcoming paintings. These are extremely well thought out comments Robert. Thank you.

Interesting that you said ravens were a fad. That never got this way I don’t think. I seen a few artists creating raven series but never enough to consider it a popular trend. Not like wolves or hidden images. But then I live in the Midwest and even though I ran the framing gallery for a museum, we still geared toward locally popular and influential art. At any rate a raven painting is on my short list for upcoming paintings.

]]> By: Robert Sloan http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8455 Robert Sloan Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:03:18 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/ask-the-budda-october-09#comment-8455 I think sometimes what happens with artistic fads is that if the artist likes the subject that gets faddish the increased acceptance starts to get intoxicating. I got involved in something like that once -- the fad turned out to be for something I'd always wanted to paint, ravens, and it was fun doing it and being able to do all sorts of variations on them secure in the knowledge that there were more raven fanciers out there than I could possibly bore. I think some of it is that artists are human and are part of the same art scene that generated the fad... and that sometimes there's a particular group-feeling pleasure to doing something that's just gotten popular. It gets deep if it also strikes something inside the artist too, then it becomes irresistible. I think there comes a point of personal self-distortion if someone gets so caught up in what's popular that they start doing works they do not personally like or wouldn't want on their own walls. The line is different for every person but I suspect for many there is a line and going too far beyond it can lead on a road to burnout. But that's the artist's personal problem, it's not something that you could tell from seeing the results in a gallery or online unless their quality starts to drop through not caring about the subject or process any more. I think sometimes what happens with artistic fads is that if the artist likes the subject that gets faddish the increased acceptance starts to get intoxicating. I got involved in something like that once — the fad turned out to be for something I’d always wanted to paint, ravens, and it was fun doing it and being able to do all sorts of variations on them secure in the knowledge that there were more raven fanciers out there than I could possibly bore.

I think some of it is that artists are human and are part of the same art scene that generated the fad… and that sometimes there’s a particular group-feeling pleasure to doing something that’s just gotten popular. It gets deep if it also strikes something inside the artist too, then it becomes irresistible.

I think there comes a point of personal self-distortion if someone gets so caught up in what’s popular that they start doing works they do not personally like or wouldn’t want on their own walls. The line is different for every person but I suspect for many there is a line and going too far beyond it can lead on a road to burnout. But that’s the artist’s personal problem, it’s not something that you could tell from seeing the results in a gallery or online unless their quality starts to drop through not caring about the subject or process any more.

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