I get migraines too and am near lethally allergic to the tryptans. Excedrin helps if taken early enough. I learned to do biofeedback to alter my circulation years ago after having tried everything else other posters have mentioned. If one can catch the onset early enough biofeedback can really help.
I turn dead white at the onset so my husband will often notice that I'm getting a migraine at a point where I'm too spaced out with aura to notice myself - this doesn't do you much good when you wake up with the benighted headache though!
well speaking as a visual artist most artists I know show their work to other artists in critique groups and some non-artists - feedback is always useful. Tim is correct that gallery owners give a yes/no response more often than anything more detailed.
Obviously editing artwork is a different process - for one thing unless one is doing posters, cards, book covers or some other piece that someone else prints the artist is handling the production issues themselves. When I've done graphics of any sort for a client I've always gotten lots of feedback. Fine art is a different world - ultimately one is edited by success in the market.
query: Teresa in one recipe you call for College Inn chicken broth and Campbell's in the other. I was wondering why?
should also mention how much I enjoy the site - been lurking for a long time and rarely post.
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Two ways to thicken a soup not involving gelatin are to make a roux - warm some butter or oil and stir in an equal amount of flour, cook gently and add in to the soup - or add the flour when you initially saute onions/bacon.
or - mix a little cornstarch in cold water ~teaspoon starch to 1/4 c water to thicken a
quart or so of soup) and stir this into gently boiling soup.
My family's favorite winter soup is my bean and sausage soup with smoked sausage or kielbasa.
Saute 1 large onion with a couple cloves of garlic and a couple bay leaves in olive oil. Add some roughly chopped red, yellow or green pepper (I use whatever I've got on hand). Add 1 lb of sliced sausage.
When the onions are transparent add 1 can each of white, (or navy or cannelini), kidney, black or pinto beans or soaked dried beans. And 1 large can of tomatoes, roughly chopped, 1 bottle of beer, and about a quart of water. Simmer for a couple hours and throw some chopped fresh parsley, salt and pepper in at the end. winter heaven!
(this works fine as a vegetarian version by just omitting the sausage.) I use carrots, celery or mushrooms if the mood strikes me.
I particularly liked the movied Simon linked to although it will sadly never be seen on network tv
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Tom asks about intentionality. I think there are two issues - how successful the artist at conveying their intention is as crucial as the actual intent. Lots of people have great and ambitious intentions for their work - whether it lives up to those intentions or not is another question.
In De Kooning's case he was certainly referencing many early portrayals of women/goddesses - to my mind with rage and hatred and disturbed sexuality but many art historians who like his work would differ with me about his intent. So yes - it is about respect --for his subject (or the lack thereof). I think he uses primitive forms as vocabulary so the lack of respect has more to do with his subject than the references he uses to express it. Hope that's coherent!
I've been lurking for a long time but this conversation impelled me to delurk. I'm an artist so it's of considerable interest.
Lydia is exactly right in saying "I didn't used to believe this, but I've come to believe that art is a conversation. In order to understand it, you have to speak the language and have an understanding of what's being discussed."
When artists use primitivistic elements today it's a vocabulary that references and builds upon the original work. For me, Kle9e and Kandinsky's work is a terribly sophisticated, witty commentary on what's primitive in all of us - and what isn't. Kle9e in particular uses primitivism as a delightful way to comment on the present. One of my favorites is his painting "The Twittering Machine"- he comments on modern society and technology very succinctly here. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/2042/inicio/klee.htm
DeKooning is savage - his use of primitive technique has, to my mind, a profoundly negative view of humanity. (I'll get in trouble for this with some too!) He used raw technique deliberately to express a dark attitude about humanity but the intent behind the choices about painting technique is not at all simple.
I think we can't assume that the very early figurative pieces had any intent of commenting about art making in them - they were about depicting what they saw and what they believed in a religious or spiritual way. People didn't start using art as a conversation about prior art until very recently in human history.
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