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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Pumping up the saturation

2002-09-22 by bgs

Wonderful. I had mentioned 10,000 hours of practice on a saxophone but the
performance is the only thing people know. Jackson Pollack could draw as
could many abstract artists and they were able to go to another place
artistically because they were good draftsmen and ah, forget it. Nothing is
difficult if you don't have to do it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moreno Polloni" <mp@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Pumping up the saturation


> > I saw a Jackson Pollack biography a few years ago that showed him
> > pouring housepaint from cans onto a huge canvas from a balcony. I doubt
> > he was  thinking of what the painting was going to look like when he
> > began. When he saw a composition he liked, he stopped pouring paint.
> > Nothing more difficult than that.
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> Yes, but what you're forgetting is that it took him 50 years to get to
that
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