Art journaling has been around a very long time and is practiced across the globe to great effect. There have been some very famous art journalistsand many working in obscurity. The cost to get started can be very low while the payoffs are investment grade. They accrue and compound. And, your 80-year old self just might be able to rekindle some creative juices with those pages some day.
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How To Love Crazy: An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving Hell and Art Openings
"Hi, my name is Lorin and I'm an introvert"
I’ve been to more than a few (well-populated) openings in my career as an artist and I still don’t understand how to do it. Redditors (what do they know) have plenty of suggestions on proper etiquette for openings.
So, I wanted to see if I could do it different, get the real emotional experience, be out of place, out of my mind amid art, artists, collectors and critics. Then, reach out. Fit in, communicate.
And too, it helps if you just pretend they’re all naked.
Read how my experiment in art opening extroversion went and more of my advice for like-afflicted souls
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“Fosters Freeze, Escalon”, 1975; Robert Bechtle
How to Love Art-And Not Be Confused or Dumb, Simple Advice
According to published reports museum goers spend just 30 seconds in front of a painting (reading the wall label?) before moving on. Ouch. Sooo maybe just a quick glance at the actual work?
Bianca Bosker, the author of “Get the Picture,” found a better way. While researching her book about the NYC art scene she heard some simple advice: “just walk up to the piece and try to think of five things that it brings up...either in the work or how it makes you feel.” And oh, 86 the wall label.
I tried this out recently at the Tucson Museum of Art’s “Time Traveler’s” show.
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