A Day in the Life of the Artist

Well  - another month, another entry...  Only a short one.  For the last month or so I've been mainly occupied with visitors, and doing a 30 hour intensive one-to-one Spanish course (elementary level).  I reach the end of that on Thursday, and then I need to practice a lot...

Therefore...  I have decided I will start making more frequent blog entries, and attempt to translate them in Spanish - ha!  That should be entertaining!  So, any native Spanish speakers out there who would like to correct my Spanish, feel free.  We will see how long this lasts....

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¡Vaya!  - otro mes, otra anotacíón.   Esta solamente una corta.  Hace un mes, mas o menos, me ocuparaba con amigos que visitaban, y con un curso intensivo de español: ¡30 horas con solamente mi y una profesora!  (¡Hola Ana!). El nivel es elemental (¡Qué sorpresa!).  Yo lo terminaré a las jueves, y despues necesito practicar mucho...

Entonces, me he decidido hacer las anotaciones en el blog mas frecuentemente, y las intento traducir a español - ¡Oyé!  ¡Esa debería divertido!  Entonces - los que hablan español y se gustaría correctar mi español - ¡vale!  Vamos a ver hasta que continuá...

¡Hasta luego!
Martin

This is the second selection of dragion drawings from a recent commission (see below)

Hi all...

I wasn't going to start writing anything of any significance to this blog until my new 'comfy-to-sit-on-the-sofa-with' laptop arrives (hopefully later this week), but I was thinking something last night which I thought I would just jot down here before I forget it:

Question:  In an age of instant communications and faultless reproductions of art, is it possible fora new movement in painting to happen?

Notice I specifically say 'painting' rather than 'art', as all sorts of new media movements have sprung up and will constantly do so - video installations, concept art, performance art, internactive internet applications, etc. etc.  I would also include both 3D and 2D still digital art as new movements which encompass hordes of whole different 'schools' within themselves.  What I am asking myself, however is, with 'traditional' 2D media - is it any longer possible to start a new movement, a new school of painting/drawing, or have we quite literally seen it all?

Has anything happened in painting since abstract expressionaism, moderism, impressionism, etc. or was the late 19th and the 20th century the last gasp of painting as an artform which could be in any way 'new'.  When the impressionists first exhibited, there were gasps of horror - I'm guessing it was the same when Lichtenstein came along, or Pollock:  - but what could we do now with paint that would be any different to everything which has gone before?  Has everything already been tried ?

Discuss!

(Oh, and here's another picture, just in case all those words were too boring :-)

Encyclopeodia Xenobotanica Plate I : Digital : Copyright © 2005 by Martin Herbert

I-ve now put a track from my Native American Flute album 'Spirit of the Wood' up on my profile page, just to show it's not all art.  More coming soon, but that's positively it for today, OK?  Just follow the 'spiritvisions' link at the bottom of this box.

Happy listening
Martin