Art Drawing--Apple and Honey "Rosh Hashanah"

Art Drawing--Apple and Honey. Artist: Martin Plant©2010

The Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, is on the way, and I decided to make a drawing to symbolize this holiday. Apple and honey represents this holiday. When people meet you they smile and say "may you have a good year." And as well, everyone hopes that happiness comes your way too.

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art painting--Flowers in a Vase

art painting--flowers in a vase

artist:Martin Plant©2010

I like doing still life pictures. Nothing moves. I can take all the time needed to work out the composition. The 'model' doesn't complain that the room is too cold, or is tired and needs a break. Then again, I can stop anytime I need to if I happen to get tired or want to work out some changes in the picture. So, for those reasons, I like doing a still life picture.

This one is called "Flowers in a Vase"

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art drawing, Groucho Marx, comedian

Artist:Martin Plant ©2010 Text©2010

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He was born with the name Julius Henry Marx but we know him better as "Groucho" Marx. He was a consummate comedian who kept us laughing in such madcap movies as Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera,among many other humorous classics In his later years, the laughs continued with his quiz show You Bet Your Life.

It was Groucho's quick wit, his funny chicken walk, thick eyebrows, bushy mustache, and his ever present cigar that made you laugh even when he wasn't saying anything. An example of his wit was seen in his quiz show You Bet Your Life where Groucho asked a contestant how many children she had. The lady said she had over a dozen. The answer amazed Groucho, and he asked her why she had so many children. She replied "I love my husband." Groucho replied "I love my cigar, but I take it out once in a while."

Another humorous incident occurred at an airport as he was going through customs. He was filling out a form and marked his less familiar name Julius Henry Marx. When the question of occupation came up, Groucho wrote "smuggler". Naturally this created quite a storm with the custom agents, but everything calmed down when the agents realized that in their midst was the great "Groucho" Marx.

Groucho's face is famous and well-known even today.You can find a caricature of his face if you walk into any joke shop, looking for a Halloween mask. There you will find rows of humorous looking Groucho Marx masks--with the trademark bushy eyebrows, thick mustache and black horn rimmed glasses staring back at you. Just a look at Groucho's face is enough to set you laughing.

If you need a good belly laugh, see any of his movies to set you chortling.

Enclosed is my version of the famous Groucho face, done in ink.

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Groucho Marx,comedian. Artist: Martin Plant ©2010 text©2010

The Truth About Art Critics

The Truth About Art Critics
by
Martin Plant
(c)2007. All rights reserved.



It seems that the entire world has this great respect for art critics. Their word is sacred. What they say about an artist and his/her work,goes. If an art critic likes your work then you have it made. If the art critic doesn't like an artist's work then the artist may as well pack up and go back to wherever he came from and quietly disappear.

It's amazing that the art critic can be allowed to wield all this power over artists or the art world. Frankly,art critics should be ignored instead of slavishly listened to. Why so? Because the art critic isn't an artist.
You didn't know that? Well,it's true. The art critic doesn't know how to draw. He doesn't know how to paint a picture. He doesn't know how to think up or create a picture.Hmm.

The art critic doesn't know any of the thousand-and-one techniques an artist must know,hasn't taken any drawing or painting courses,hasn't practiced at learning any art skills until they become perfected--which can take up to ten years for an artist to do until his work looks professional.

To make matters worse,newspaper and magazine editors--the people who hire art critics-- are as naive as the public in recognizing that art critics are not artists and have limited skills in explaining an artist's work or his exhibits.

So what does an art critic actually know? He knows art history. This means he knows who painted what art style,where it was done,and when. And that's about it. Not very useful stuff for explaining an art exhibit to the public.

Often,an art critic's review has a lot of mumbo jumbo to it. He makes up a flowery story about a picture to explain it. He uses flighty phrases and long sentences. He has to. After all,he doesn't know anything about composition,or color mixing. He isn't familiar with viewpoints or size relationships and the myriad other techniques that go into the making of a picture.He doesn't know how to explain why a picture is good. But he will gladly tell you that,according to him, the picture is or isn't good. Quite often he leaves the reader confused.

Why don't artists write the reviews instead? Because most artists aren't writers. Artists stick to their art. After all,that's what artists do best. And so we let the art critics do the reviews.

So now all you artists and the public know this little secret about art critics. Ignore them. Don't bother much with their reviews or critiques. They are mostly unreadable anyway. If an artist's work seems that it might be interesting then just go to the art gallery and see the work for yourself. You'll do a better job than the art critic of deciding whether the work is good or not.

(How about some of your comments on art critics. Do you agree or disagree with them? What if they give you a thumbs down?)

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