[MD] Tao through intellect...

[MarshaV]

At 09:55 AM 11/16/2007, Peter wrote:
>Hi Marsha,
>
>I've only ever seen any of his paintings over the interweb; I agree they are
>certainly gutsy but I'd say infantile rather than primitive. I much prefer
>his music although I believe he made more money from his paintings than he
>ever did from his music.

Hi Peter,

Perhaps.  The paintings remind me of that place between consciousness 
and sleep.  I've been at such a place a few times.  It's a descent, 
or the opposite of evolution, to fish or embryos or strange 
multi-celled creatures.  It's not a place of fear, but a place of 
origins, or so it seems to me.  RMP wrote about it in an episode with Lila.

Personally, I am uncomfortable with his palette.  While I love all 
things Spanish, his paintings seem to have that bright Mediterranean 
color: red, yellow, orange, black.  And I cannot handle that for too 
long without getting a headache.  But that's a personal quirk and has 
nothing to do with the value of his paintings.  They are interesting, though.

A painter I really like is Vachagan Narazyan.  He's Russian, and I 
think I've read he's designated a neosurrealist.  I actually own one 
of his smaller paintings.

Marsha




>On 16/11/2007, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > At 05:48 AM 11/16/2007, you wrote:
> > >Hi Marsh,
> > >
> > >No, I don't know of Don Preston. I know some of the Mothers played with
> > >Beefheart towards the end of his music career, was Preston one of them?
> > >
> > >Have you seen any of Van Vleit's paintings - honestly now, how do they
> > >strike you?
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > I think his paintings are interesting, primitive and gutsy.
> >
> > Marsha
> >
> >
> > >On 15/11/2007, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At 10:16 AM 11/15/2007, Peter wrote:
> > > > >'If you want to be a different kind of fish, you've got to get out of
> > the
> > > > >school' (Don van Vleit).
> > > >
> > > > Peter,
> > > >
> > > > Don van Vleit is a strange fish.  I like his strangeness?
> > > >
> > > > Do you know Don Preston, from the Mothers of Invention?
> > > >
> > > > Marsha
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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