[Fmpro] Shore, Burton, Wood

[Ted Peterson]

Thomas Mann's character Adrian Leverkun was trying to find the  
"breakthrough" that would take his music into not only the future but  
a path that he could develop. On reading the book, Arnold Schoenberg  
wrote to Mann: "I do not have syphilis." Ed Harris' "Pollock" has an  
interesting scene where he is struggling to find his own voice. By  
the way, I recommend the movie because it deals with innovation on a  
very personal level. When he stumbles onto his drip method, his wife  
immediately recognizes that he has made the breakthrough that would  
both insure his place in history and add to the artistic vocabulary.  
It's quite a scene. But finding one's voice is the most difficult  
task an artist can undertake. There are several reasons for this  
which we can talk about if anyone cares. There's an interesting  
symbiosis between the creator and the viewer (listener). I happen to  
think that art would have taken an entirely different direction if  
the Steins (Gertrude and her brothers) hadn't "discovered" Matisse  
and subsequently the other major 20th century artists including Picasso.

By the way "Modigliani" is a wonderful film about art and the  
creative process in the background of France in late 1800s and the  
early 1900s. It's a tragic film but the nuances are incredible.

Ted Peterson

On Jun 5, 2008, at 3:47 PM, <bipcress at comcast.net> wrote:

> We're getting better - nothing you said here made me mad! Also, as  
> a painter
> (2D visual artist) I have spent the past two decades trying to be
> innovative, so I know from innovative - I've been years in the  
> trenches.
> It's tantamount to impossible to create anything that's absolutely  
> new to
>