I was having dinner with an artist friend, Beth Palmer, and we were talking about art, and Durham, and our work as artists and teachers. "OK, here's one of my ideas," she said, "and you can have this one. I'm just giving it away for free. What Durham needs is an arts magazine. Something that would be about all the different art events and artists in Durham. There are so many art-related things happening in Durham, and no one is really covering them." This blog is my attempt to write about the Durham art scene.
The first thing I needed for the blog was a title, so one night when I couldn't sleep, I went online. I looked around at all the Durham blogs to get ideas- Bull City Rising, Carpe Durham, Endangered Durham, Bull's Eye. I couldn't think of anything unique. I had recently seen the Picasso exhibition at the Nasher, and when it comes to art you can't get away from that guy, so on a whim I googled "picasso bull quote." I came across a story that may or may not be true––an art historian was trying to get Picasso to verify his interpretation of the horse in Guernica as standing for Spanish nationalism, and the bull as standing for the Spanish people. Picasso answered, "This bull is a bull, and this horse is a horse." Maybe it was just because it was 5 am, but I thought it was perfect for the title.
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Look forward to reading your new blog, Jessica!
ReplyDeleteI've bookmarked it! :)
And that aint no bull ----
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I found this quote from Picasso. You might like this, "This bull is a bull and this horse is a horse...if you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are."
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