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Why?
2/22/2010 4:58:58 PM | By Rick J. Delanty | 7 Comments
This is my first entry in this Art Journal for 2010--my first entry, in fact, for this experiment on my new website featuring acrylic landscape paintings, which I am designing here in my Studio/Gallery in San Clemente, California (with the help of FineArtStudioOnline). I'm re-doing the site to a) better present my art, b) to be more interactive with collectors, artists, and those who are interested in what I do, and c) to construct a more complete record of what Art is to me in my life.
There I go again--trying to answer the "Why's" in my life!
I am doing this because...
Do you ever ask yourself, "Why?" Or perhaps I should ask, "How many times a day do you ask it?"
You've heard the Socratic saying-- "an unexamined life is not worth living." C'est magnifique, l'ancien proverbe! I find that I hardly Ever do anything, artistically or otherwise, unless I've answered this question first. I suppose that there is probably no more profound a question in all of art history, or all of history for that matter, than "Why?" Why am I here? Why do I do this or that? Why should I do this or that? Why are they like that? Why is life like this, anyway?"
So I'm starting this Journal: to use as a kind of measuring stick of my progression as an artist who is also a human being; so my family and friends will have a better idea where I am, mentally and emotionally; so those who seek and/or find something in my art will have a better idea of where it came from; so that my Creator will know why I'm creating (of course, He knows that before I do, even, but this writing will help me remember that I-do-what-I-do only through the gifts of His grace and mercy).
Thanks for listening.
There I go again--trying to answer the "Why's" in my life!
I am doing this because...
Do you ever ask yourself, "Why?" Or perhaps I should ask, "How many times a day do you ask it?"
You've heard the Socratic saying-- "an unexamined life is not worth living." C'est magnifique, l'ancien proverbe! I find that I hardly Ever do anything, artistically or otherwise, unless I've answered this question first. I suppose that there is probably no more profound a question in all of art history, or all of history for that matter, than "Why?" Why am I here? Why do I do this or that? Why should I do this or that? Why are they like that? Why is life like this, anyway?"
So I'm starting this Journal: to use as a kind of measuring stick of my progression as an artist who is also a human being; so my family and friends will have a better idea where I am, mentally and emotionally; so those who seek and/or find something in my art will have a better idea of where it came from; so that my Creator will know why I'm creating (of course, He knows that before I do, even, but this writing will help me remember that I-do-what-I-do only through the gifts of His grace and mercy).
Thanks for listening.
