Candid Artistic Ramblings: Reflections While Painting “Buon Appetito!”—Preparing for the Florence Biennale
Artists/painters have qualities that are special to their vocation. Others may identify with these, and have similar feelings about what they do and how they do it. I’m curious to compare. But, right now, I can only speak about my own day-to-day experience preparing the Florence Biennale exhibition collection (and everything associated with it, beyond its actual painting). The reflections that follow are listed and recorded in the order they emerged:
1. Endurance
2. Stamina
3. Sacrifice
4. Creative Pressure/Release
5. Strategic/Conscious Painting
6. Noticing the Details
7. Painter’s Fatigue
8. "JK Rowling Syndrome"
9. Support/Patronage/Grants
10. Prices
11. Organization
12. Serendipity
13. Puzzle
14. Time
15. Artist Plus
16. (Special)Gift(s)
17. Message(s)
18. Limitations
19. Sharing
20. Preciousness/Value
The next 20 blog postings will each display a different "Buon Appetito!" painting with a reflection following (in the order listed above). The "Buon Appetito!" paintings will be displayed alphabetically. Bananas, Beans (Mixed), Blueberries, Cherries (Red), Chocolate Truffles, Dried Fruit and Nuts, Grapes (Green), Grapes (Red), Jelly Beans, Kumquats, Licorice Allsorts, Olives, Onions, Pasta, Peppers, Raspberries and Blackberries, Rice Snacks, Strawberries Sweethearts, Tomatoes. Each reflection will follow the order shown in the list above and doesn’t have a specific relationship with the image that it follows.
