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. > > Yes, but what you're forgetting is that it took him 50 years to get to that > point. > > > > > Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, Bookmarks, Polls and other resources as they are often being updated. The page is at: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint > > If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same page. > > Please follow these basic guidelines: > - Include your full name with your message. > - Include the address of your website, if you have one. > - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short. > - As the topic of a thread changes remember to change the subject header. > - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or &amp;quot;flames.&amp;quot; > - Complete your Yahoo profile. > - Before posting a question, search the message archives and the various resources on the homepage. > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Pumping up the saturation
2002-09-22 by bgs
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