Sennelier pastel on plexi glass 35X40
Sennelier pastel on arches 15X22
this building is truly a work of art.
Temple
rests in my arms
mixed media, acrylic, cardboard, steel, nylon on canvas
Ovation TV's footage from Rob Pruitt's 1st Annual Art Awards event at the Guggenheim museum in NYC, Oct. 29th 2009. This montage captures the highlights of the evening, featuring Rob Pruitt, The Delusional Downtown Divas, artists and award winners like Joan Jonas and Kasper Konig and celebrity presenters like James Franco, Julianne Moore, Kylie Minogue and more.
Stay tuned for more in depth clips from the event.
If you have any questions about how I take images please feel free to ask I will share as much as I can.
Part Two
The first step to become a skillful and clever critic is to develop an attitude which allows the entry of more information and allows stop and think.
These attitudes indicate the following:
The first two characteristics may seem contradictory, but they are not. The critic must want to investigate different viewpoints on its own, but at the same time recognizing when doubt. There should be no dogmatic or orthodox doctrinal or naive or gullible. They are examining the largest number of ideas and different perspectives, giving you the opportunity to be heard to the bottom and then reason what are the good and bad points of each work OK the fact that we can be wrong once the arguments are on the table and keep the ultimate goal of getting the truth or as close to it that the information we have been admitted or submitted to us will enable us to be objective.
Too much skepticism, or pseudoescepticismo also will lead to paranoia and ideas of conspiracy, will lead us to doubt everything and getting nothing in the end, while believing all without a trial or by prejudice or bias of our basic cognitive brain will lead to be a fickle public.
Have intellectual humility means to be able to give an opportunity to opinions and new evidence or argument even if the tests or inquiries lead us to discover flaws in our own beliefs. The critic must be able to be independent and be a free thinker. Ie not to depend not afraid to inquire about something. Social pressures for standardization and conformity may come to make us fall into the convenience or the desire to believe one's own group membership. This can be very difficult or almost impossible for some.
One must wonder if the fear of reprisals simply tell what motivates our own opinions or beliefs and if so have the strength to at least temporarily silenced until they have the freedom to make an objective and thorough evaluation of it. Finally, we must have a natural curiosity and motivation to advance one's knowledge about a subject. The only way to avoid having a basic knowledge about something is to study to reach a sufficient level of understanding needed before any trial.
Walter carlos Pecsi
A Folk art house not far from my neighborhood. I plan to reveal more of its secrets as time goes by,,,,
