Comments on: George W. Bush, portraitist

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:51:14 +0000

I wonder how fighter pilot skills compare to portraiture skills.

Perhaps the same ratio as Miyamoto Musashi’s dual sword method vs Musashi’s focus on calligraphy.

By: GRA

GRA — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:57:27 +0000

This actually makes me feel sorry for GWB. A very much maligned politician.

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:05:34 +0000

Art is an ancient practice. What did gifted fighter pilots do with themselves until airplanes were invented?

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:04:32 +0000

Ymarsakar:
“one of the practical tests for intelligence and talent isn’t the IQ test, it’s seeing how many fields you can learn/master in a few years”

I wonder how fighter pilot skills compare to portraiture skills.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:30:37 +0000

Oh sorry, forgot to include that one of the practical tests for intelligence and talent isn’t the IQ test, it’s seeing how many fields you can learn/master in a few years.

Music, mathematics, language, art. If you can get specialization, prodigy, genius, savant, or proficient levels in all of them, that is often taken as a testament to intelligence.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:29:28 +0000

There’s often a dispute over how intelligent Bush is. The Left says a village idiot. Others say Bush is smarter than Kerry and Hussein combined.

By: Frog

Frog — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 04:48:46 +0000

miklos, you sound like a painter, and not like a musician, especially not one who plays classical music. All forms of art have beginnings, middles and ends.
I meditate to Mozart especially K.563. And Beethoven’s Archduke Trio. Try them!

By: miklos000rosza

miklos000rosza — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:46:59 +0000

Painting on canvas puts one in a very different mental space than writing, or speaking, or anything else connected with words. It’s different from playing music, also, because music has its own language you inevitably adhere to and stay within. Music requires endless repetition, although this repetition leads to change. Painting is a craft, a job with a beginning middle and end. It’s a meditation.

By: Frog

Frog — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:18:09 +0000

I prefer W’s earlier paintings. Some of these are almost caricatures, tending to the grotesque. See the lead-off painting. They are too heavy-handed.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:50:35 +0000

Well said, CV.