File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2002/lyotard.0209, message 11


Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:34:13 +1100
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Helmet Hessenbuttel - Painting on water


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  Steve,

  I never painted on water - canvas, wood, glass, the puttylike material for auto-body repair, yes - water no. I've painted on glass, pressed paper against wet side making a print. thus two pictures for one.

  Once, in a SoHo exhibition, I saw pictures made by pouring thin oil paints on water, then lowering canvas to the surface 
  making a print.  No expertise required, but obvious possibilities for anyone with time, patience, determination, imagination, etc. etc. etc..  

  Painting, like writing, is an humbling experience, for when you are utterly free to use your imagination, you realize the poverty of the mind, the difficulty of conceiving, ANYthing
  different, and that imitation is inevitable.  

  Eliot said something to the effect that immature artists imitate, but mature artists steal.

  regards,
  Hugh




  Some draft translations of Helmet Heissenbuttel...

  Of all the writers I can think of Helmet Heissenbuttel deserves the accolade of being called an experimental writer, not that I would brand him with that absurd label 'Post-Modern' or 'Modernist' but rather in the true sense of an experimenter with words, meanings and phrases. More than most writers he could almost be called neo-scientific in the rigour that he applies to his media experimentation. In his texts - and I've selected the three translated below carefully to demonstrate some of the following - he uses collage, montage, tautology, humour, discontinuity and so on - now all have been used before to often startling effect by Aragon, Breton, the Dadists and a range of 20th and 21st C writers and innovators. However in Heissenbuttel's work the absurd practice of individualism and innovation for its own sake is left far behind. ... I hope you enjoy them and his writing as much as I have.

  http://www.krokodile.co.uk/out2/hh.html

  regards
  s

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Steve,
 
I never painted on water - canvas, wood, glass, the puttylike material for auto-body repair, yes - water no. I've painted on glass, pressed paper against wet side making a print. thus two pictures for one.
 
Once, in a SoHo exhibition, I saw pictures made by pouring thin oil paints on water, then lowering canvas to the surface
making a print.  No expertise required, but obvious possibilities for anyone with time, patience, determination, imagination, etc. etc. etc.. 
 
Painting, like writing, is an humbling experience, for when you are utterly free to use your imagination, you realize the poverty of the mind, the difficulty of conceiving, ANYthing
different, and that imitation is inevitable. 
 
Eliot said something to the effect that immature artists imitate, but mature artists steal.
 
regards,
Hugh
 
 

Some draft translations of Helmet Heissenbuttel...

Of all the writers I can think of Helmet Heissenbuttel deserves the accolade of being called an experimental writer, not that I would brand him with that absurd label =91Post-Modern=92 or =91Modernist=92 but rather in the true sense of an experimenter with words, meanings and phrases. More than most writers he could almost be called neo-scientific in the rigour that he applies to his media experimentation. In his texts =96 and I=92ve selected the three translated below carefully to demonstrate some of the following =96 he uses collage, montage, tautology, humour, discontinuity and so on =96 now all have been used before to often startling effect by Aragon, Breton, the Dadists and a range of 20th and 21st C writers and innovators. However in Heissenbuttel=92s work the absurd practice of individualism and innovation for its own sake is left far behind. ... I hope you enjoy them and his writing as much as I have.

http://www.krokodile.co.uk/out2/hh.html

regards
s
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