[Art_beyond_sight_learning_tools] art

[Lisa Yayla]

*excerpt
*Draw it ... Draw it good
Artist/musician Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo

*http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20070404_Draw_it.html
*

*Q:* There's a childlike primitivism to your art. How do you think 
coming into your formative years with eyesight problems [Mothersbaugh 
was legally blind until age 7] factored into that childishness or 
altered your work?

*A:* Well, among other things it made me have to sit close to the paper. 
[Laughs.] I had to draw from six inches away. So I tended to do things 
kind of small. I think I lucked out, though. It delayed certain things 
of the world being revealed to me rather than have them happen at a 
pre-vocal time. At age 7, it was like a door opened, a pretty joyous 
experience.


excerpt

The art of profiteering
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/the-art-of-profiteering/2007/03/15/1173722652416.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
One of the greatest paintings to appear at auction was Water Dreaming at 
Kalipinya by Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, a pioneer of the famed dot 
style. He sold many of his pictures to dealers for a few hundred 
dollars, only to see them sell later for hundreds of thousands.

His key work set a record price for an Aboriginal painting in 1997 when 
it was sold for $206,000 to an American collector at Sotheby's in 
Melbourne. The sale attracted worldwide media attention after Tjupurrula 
was discovered destitute and sleeping in a dry creek bed outside Alice 
Springs.

He was partly blind and had only two fingers on one hand, but he knew 
his painting was being sold and claimed a share of the proceeds - which 
was refused. Three years later, the painting appeared at Sotheby's again 
and set a new record of $486,500 when it went to another American 
collector. By that time, the artist had been dead for two years.


article

*Artist:* Robert Romero ( United States ) -




	




  *Main Category:* Painting *Genres:* Contemporary North American Art   
*Biography: *At the age of five I was diagnosed as being color blind. 
When asked by others how I am able to paint if I can't distinguish 
color, I simply answer. "I put a lot of trust and belief in my Muse that 
all will come out right." (I read the labels on the tubes of paint.)
I have studied fine arts in Northern California, Spain, Mexico, Central 
America and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Early in my career, I was influenced by the works of Van Gogh and Dali. 
My Later travels to Spain, where I studied Art History, exposed me to 
the styles of Goya, Carravagio, and Velasquez. I also admire the work of 
the English artist, William Turner.

A tenth generation New Mexican, my culture, family history, and religion 
have strongly influenced my present work. I currently live and work in 
Taos, New 
Mexicohttp://galleries.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/galleries/show?what=artists&login=capucinesboulevard&id=1703

Artist: Robert Romero ( United States ) -  
 
  
Main Category: Painting  
Genres: Contemporary North American Art  
  
Biography: At the age of five I was diagnosed as being color blind. When 
asked by others how I am able to paint if I can't distinguish color, I 
simply answer. "I put a lot of trust and belief in my Muse that all will 
come out right." (I read the labels on the tubes of paint.)
I have studied fine arts in Northern California, Spain, Mexico, Central 
America and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Early in my career, I was influenced by the works of Van Gogh and Dali. 
My Later travels to Spain, where I studied Art History, exposed me to 
the styles of Goya, Carravagio, and Velasquez. I also admire the work of 
the English artist, William Turner.

A tenth generation New Mexican, my culture, family history, and religion 
have strongly influenced my present work. I currently live and work in 
Taos, New Mexico.
 

excerpt a bit off subject but nice
http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2007/04/05/Opinion/On.Hearing.Color-2827650.shtml

My choice to pursue music was not clear to me at first, but I have come 
to believe that music is the auditory ability to paint a human emotion 
concretely. Though with other arts, emotion is the aftereffect of the 
primary subject matter and what gives depth to the subject matter, I 
feel that music is the true ability to realistically create an image of 
happiness, sorrow, anguish, joy or desire.

Music is the pursuit of color, the pursuit of landscaping and pigment in 
such a way that the listener is transported to a world where there are 
brilliant colors, hues and intentions, but all painted in such ways that 
we are delightfully blind to them, but nonetheless affected. Our ears 
are given the extraordinary ability to become our eyes and to see what 
it is that the eye is incapable of registering.

I'd advise you, the reader, to look up some of the work of Gertrude 
Stein, who uses an amalgam of words that are nonsensically arranged to 
create this very poignant color in the eye of the reader. Her choice of 
wording and experimentation capture in literature the same qualities 
that my musical compositions endeavor to find. The perception of the 
human race is delightfully fragile and usually oblivious to the 
undercurrent of possibilities that the limitations of our senses allow 
us to partake in.


On hearing color



but I have come to believe that music is the auditory ability to paint a 
human emotion concretely. Though with other arts, emotion is the 
aftereffect of the primary subject matter and what gives depth to the 
subject matter, I feel that music is the true ability to realistically 
create an image of happiness, sorrow, anguish, joy or desire.

Music is the pursuit of color, the pursuit of landscaping and pigment in 
such a way that the listener is transported to a world where there are 
brilliant colors, hues and intentions, but all painted in such ways that 
we are delightfully blind to them, but nonetheless affected. Our ears 
are given the extraordinary ability to become our eyes and to see what 
it is that the eye is incapable of registering.

I'd advise you, the reader, to look up some of the work of Gertrude 
Stein, who uses an amalgam of words that are nonsensically arranged to 
create this very poignant color in the eye of the reader. Her choice of 
wording and experimentation capture in literature the same qualities 
that my musical compositions endeavor to find. The perception of the 
human race is delightfully fragile and usually oblivious to the 
undercurrent of possibilities that the limitations of our senses allow 
us to partake in.