METROGADFLY symbolic art: Flowery speech...

Chapter 8: The Prehistory of Written Language: "There's also a story about Picasso in which someone asked him why he didn't draw representational images. Picasso asked the man for an example of what he meant, so the questioner produced a photograph of his wife. Picasso then asked the man if his wife was really 5 centimeters tall, two dimensional, was nothing but a head, and had skin tones that were shades of gray (Picasso also famously said that when he was a child he had drawn like Raphael, but it had taken the rest of his life in order to learn to draw like a child)."

Monday, December 1, 2008

Flowery speech...

Abounding in organic elements;

flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.

Flowery internet connections:
Saul Steinberg Cartoonbank.com
Flowery Speech by Robert M Wilson

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PeacefulWmn9 said...: One of the things I enjoy most about your work is the enormity of images I see in each piece. The longer I look, the more there is to behold.

Regards,
Karen; 03 December, 2008 14:10

Artist statement:

My art work is personal iconography. The imagery has been developed over fifty years. My vocabulary of icons enables me to generate hundreds of images without conscious effort. The ideas flow on the paper much like automatic writing. I generate the images in sets of 10 to 20 and have produced several series of 100 or more. Many of my original works are photographed or scanned and the images are manipulated with image software.An essential aspect of my work is the connection of my work to the world. The internet has allowed me the opportunity to find very esoteric connections.

"May the squiggle be with you"

Dear Ronald Isom

David Engstrom here, author of TSS Blog and co author of The Complementary Nature. I wanted to thank you for including the squiggle symbol on your blog sidebar. I like your blog, and will add a link to it in our drop down menu under TSS Links/Excellent Blogs.

By the way, my wife and I both love your use of curmudgeon on your artist profile. It is our word of the day.;)

In case you use facebook, here is a link to The Squiggle Sense facebook fan page, which you with your interest~knowledge of symbols, would certainly be a welcome addition. This fan page is a small step towards expanding the dialogue that my mentor, Dr. J. A. Scott Kelso and I have had running now for the last 18 years, on the complementary nature.

We could certainly use a curmudgeon or two in our ranks!
Again, very nice to see squiggle there on your blog.
As we say more and more, "May the squiggle be with you!"

Sincerely,
David A. Engstrøm

Inner Work Blog: C.G. Jung on Symbolic Life: “Health calls for the all-embracing vision of myth, as expressed in symbols. If the symbol is lacking, man’s wholeness is not represented in consciousness. A symbol cannot be made to order, as the rationalist would like to believe. It is a legitimate symbol only if it gives expression to the immutable structure of the unconscious and can therefore command general acceptance. So long as it evokes belief spontaneously, it does not require to be understood in any other way."

Molly Brogan, author: Our Own Asemic Symbolism Leads Our Way: I firmly believe that we each have within us a pattern of archetypes or symbols that lead us in our conscious and unconscious recognition and responses to them. The symbols we see in our dreams over and over are much like the symbols we see in our waking life again and again. Can we pay attention to them differently than we do now, and what would we learn if we do? One of my favorite contemporary artists, Ronald Isom makes this idea of asemic symbolism integral to his artwork. He sees it like this..."

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"Ronald illustrates his intuitive semantic reactions to his symbol systems. His paintings and drawings are kinetic in ways that allow us to FEEL what he feels. Organic in inspiration, his artwork brings us to our own symbolic systems, as they emerge and fly free, allowing us to see and know our own semantic responses. In this way that the symbols of Ronald’s artwork brings us to ourselves and allows us to FEEL, I aspire, as a writer, to bring my readers into their intuitive core, and allow them to explore the possibilities of their lives, through the eyes of my characters..."

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