Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shahn used a series of exhortations in describing how an artist should obtain education and culture. "Read everything--the Bible, Hume, Pogo--but not the art reviews. Paint and paint, draw and draw on any smooth surface; the margins of books are excellent. Go visit Paris, Madrid, Rome, Ravenna, Padua and stand alone in the Sainte Chapelle...
This form of education will answer at least two of the three practical questions asked by young artists today, Shahn claimed. These questions are "What shall I paint?", "How shall I paint?", and "What security can I have as a painter...
...Grande. At 17, Belloc rounded off his education at the College Stanislas in Paris, armed with a testimonial from the great Cardinal Newman himself. But by then he was in full rebellion against everything of a "stuffy" nature. Catholic or non-Catholic. He had begun to draw, paint, write stories; he yearned for action, detested orthodox stability, made the discovery that aristocrats and Jews were prime enemies of the people. "How I long for the Great War!'' he wrote in 1889. "It will sweep Europe like a broom, it will make Kings jump like coffee beans...
...mentioned six values of our culture that produce shallow art. The first is the concept of freedom, which sometimes means "the only ingredient left in art besides paint, is freedom...
...effect of the second value, "Up-to-dateness," can be equally pernicious. In this respect he quoted "an artistic friend" who said, "Sometimes I wish to paint like the old masters but I can't; no one wishes to be out of the swim of things...