nostr:npub1l4wcl62u30xpk9307c7ls70tm20a4pyre92g6rztfhlp07hw2v4qs3e0xc 3 Days to go. Wishes for a motiv I can paint or/and take pictures?
🤔 For some reason this question reminded me how Ludwig Mies van der Rohe spent his whole career trying to figure out how to turn a corner.
I think because it is something seemingly simple and small and fundamental and yet can unfold and unfold and unfold and become mysterious.
A simple question that always turns mysterious to me is beginning with flat and working at it to find a depth. It translates through various media so many ways.
Your story of searching for a kind of perfection reminds me of the rivalry between William Turner and John Constable. He painted for years on one picture and used a special red. Both painters exhibited together and Turner analyzed Constable's very elaborate, detailed paintings. He then took a brush and painted a single stroke as a buoy in the sea in his monochrome painting - and "won" :)
Wow, what a story. Well, I guess sometimes the only way to know is to see it :))
Would have been a different tale if Turner was wrong!
mfw I look up these paintings on my phone:
..of course a red stroke.
