I get a twice weekly letter from Robert Genn (not personal - just a free subscription), mostly makes me smile, usually interesting, occasionally I don't bother with it, but I always love his paintings, and I love the thought of his Bugaboo helipainting trips... One day maybe....
Here is a clip that made me smile in a knowing kind of way:
"There's a great story in David Bayles and Ted Orland's Art and Fear. Here it is:
"The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of the work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: On the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work in the "quantity" group: fifty pounds of pots rated an "A", forty pounds a "B" and so on. Those being graded on "quality," however, needed to produce only one pot--albeit a perfect one--to get an "A". Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of the highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busy turning out piles of work--and learning from their mistakes--the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.""
I am back from my California trip and I will post some more paintings as soon as I have unpacked.
Find more of Robert Genns gems at
http://clicks.robertgenn.com/two-artists.php
Don't know how he finds time to paint!
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