February 2003
The Wittig Report - on the Interface Between Life and Art
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Welcome to the Wittig Report...
On the one hand there is 'Art,' and on the other hand, there
is 'Life,'
...and somewhere in the middle, they meet.
January was yet another busy month... twenty-six small
paintings,
watercolours and Chinese ink, and one essay.
I also turned out a fairly interesting short program in the
C
programming language... hopefully I will have the code
debugged,
commented, and on-line for interested persons, by March.
Last month, I was happy to announce that I had finally
acquired
gallery representation... heh... this month, I am even more
happy to
announce that the relationship has been severed this person
and I were
simply not cut out for each other... a few detail (but no
names) in
this month's essay.
"The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while
the mature man
wants to live humanely for one." Wilhelm Steckel
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January 2003, 26 paintings:
For the sake of brevity, I point you to the thumbnail page.
Clicking
on any of them will open up the full image pages.
http://www.robertwittig.com/2003winter.html
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Article: The Attraction Model vs. The Promotional Model -
Selling
One's Work in the Fine Visual Arts
"There are all sorts of high-flown theories on 'Art'
(with a capital
'A') that relegate earning money to a 'non-Art' issue...
something not
to be considered in the list of motivating factors, where
producing
work in the fine visual arts is concerned. However, unless
an
entry-level painter (or 'artist', if you prefer) is
independently
wealthy... if they want to paint full time, then sooner than
later,
the issue of how they turn what they produce into cash, is
going to
become a matter of major importance, because of the
existence of
Bills (with a capital 'B')..."
To read the article, click here: http://www.robertwittig.com/paper56.html
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Featured Website - Richard Yoder
This fellow is an excellent painter, who specialises in
trompe
l'oeil... paintings that 'fool the eye' into thinking they
are real,
3D objects.
He uses some Flash animation on the site, but it loads
fairly quickly,
and is well designed. His work is, in my opinion, worth the
short
delay, while the Flash modules load.
To visit Richard Yoder's website...
click here: http://www20.brinkster.com/rickeytick/
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