Monday, August 07, 2006

Stacks, Quilt Tops & more


On Saturday my family drove to Youngstown, OH to visit the Butler Institute of American Art and to view the Janet Fish pastels that are on display there thru September. What a wonderful museum and collection they have! The cafe is good too. But look what I found there--art quilt tops!


Aren't they loverly. Look at the stacks. Look at the fusible designs.

But where is the quilting? Where are the stitches, you might ask.

Well, these are really not quilt tops.

They are paintings and collages by the American Expressionist Robert Motherwell. And to be very truthful, these are not the actual ones I saw at the museum, these are pictures of similar pieces that I could borrow from the internet. Inspiration is all around. Now I'm on a Motherwell kick, getting books through interlibrary loan, and letting these images swim alongside those of Mrs. Mel and Nancy Crow.
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PURLS OF WISDOM

"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis

"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius

"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis

Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.

Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow

Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly