tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421058335078020755.post1341062520611272972..comments2023-07-07T02:20:11.093-07:00Comments on Helvetia Journal: August 25Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421058335078020755.post-90387934380198386562008-11-19T09:54:00.000-08:002008-11-19T09:54:00.000-08:00Sorry, My email address is erikson.james@gmail.com...Sorry, <BR/><BR/>My email address is erikson.james@gmail.com<BR/><BR/>ThanksJames Eriksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16223044861618644679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421058335078020755.post-1624547596681306562008-11-19T09:52:00.000-08:002008-11-19T09:52:00.000-08:00Hi Joe,I have a question about something you wrote...Hi Joe,<BR/><BR/>I have a question about something you wrote in that great article on James Bishop in Art in America last month. I'm trying to understand some things about my own work and I know I've been anti-repetition my whole life whether or not my work shows that. If you feel like it and have a chance can you expand on this from your article?:<BR/><BR/>"The Paris-based painter Jerome Boutterin once characterized for me the difference between American and French painters as a contrast between the industrial and the artisanal. Americans, he observed, tend to define painting through production, and an artist's comprehension of painting is proven through repeated variations. French artists concentrate on how a painting is crafted and on the manner in which one goes about beginning. The French "artisanal" inclination has clearly influenced Bishop's oil paintings on canvas, judging by the three shown in Chicago."<BR/><BR/>I get the American part but I'm trying to understand the part about French artists' paintings being artisanal as opposed to industrial. Maybe I'm too American to figure it out myself. But I really want to understand for my own sake.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your time (if you could just email me directly I'd appreciate it.)James Eriksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16223044861618644679noreply@blogger.com