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A Rumor Of Peace

5/6/2019

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Edging taken to its extreme is a line drawing. Sometimes that’s a useful exercise, if only as a reminder that it’s how a large segment of the population sees the world: Right and wrong, good and evil, black lines on a white background. Doesn’t everything work better when everyone does what they’re supposed to do. The artistic equivalent of authoritarianism.

The irony of authoritarianism is that there are no absolutes, and sometimes authoritarianism actually works. There was a reason for Churchill. There was also a reason to get rid of him. Of course, nobody agrees when ‘sometimes’ is. Britain during World War II, yeah a little authoritarianism probably worked. The United States during World War I - definitely not. Nor now, but, again, I digress.

The Art World is not immune. Traditionalists have always been there to slow everything down. Today there are artists who insist ‘art’ can only be created with something like a brush using something like paint onto something like a canvas. Their assertion actually excludes most artists working right now, who are younger, creating art on their computers, or tablets, or smartphones. They don’t do art the way they’re supposed to.

​Photo art begins down deep in the pixels of a photographic capture; begins with an assault of experiments seeking the truth of the capture that leads to art. Sometimes black lines on a white background is the strongest technique. Sometimes the way is open for Churchill.

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Harold link
5/6/2019 08:04:37 am

Hi Curt! Yep, there is a great deal of "art" out there that does not follow "tradition." Your artwork is great! I think of writing as being an art too, because I try to paint an image using words. Describe something so vividly that the reader becomes the first-hand observer. The greatest reward being when the reader "gets it." And just think, it wasn't long ago that graffiti was considered vandalism - now it's art and cities and railroads seem to welcome it :-)

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    Curtis Hendricks

    All my life I have had to learn to do things differently. To see the world differently.

    Art attracted me from the beginning. Almost every home in the tiny farming village where I grew up had DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’ on the wall. I would come across modern abstract art in magazines and be absolutely fascinated by the colors and techniques.

    But there were no artists in my village. No one understood what modern art was. Or why it was. But there was an appreciation for photography.

    I began shooting with a 1960 model Agfa rangefinder fixed-lens 35mm camera and learned to use darkroom techniques to finish my work. Graduating to a single lens reflex camera I worked primarily with Kodachrome. Digital photography opened a new world. The computer became the artboard I never had; the darkroom I could never afford. I discovered there would never be a camera or a lens that could capture what I saw in my head – that, I had to learn to create on my own.

    I use the photograph the same way a painter uses a charcoal sketch – as a starting place. I squeeze out the unseen hiding between the pixels; the angels, the demons of my own imagination.

    ​Light. Color. Darkness. Perspective. Introversion. Mystery. Love.

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