tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61831343992836261602024-02-19T07:45:33.936+01:00franka waaldijk visual artistThis blog is about art from a personal, often philosophical perspective. It is meant as much for me as for you (I hope!). Please allow for some inconsistency, obstinacy, ignorance, incompetence, inaccuracy, blind spots etc on my part. friendly feedback, which may be as critical as you like, is always welcome.franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-69482721495682855412016-01-20T11:17:00.002+01:002016-01-20T11:17:55.392+01:00New Year's wish for all
(Better late than never :-))
franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-42326518716421817262015-02-23T12:51:00.000+01:002015-02-23T12:51:09.528+01:00Extraneous work (10): the studioThe studio of a contemporary mixed media artist can be quite a messy affair. -Wikipedia
The occasional need to clear this mess is not what I mean with extraneous work, in fact there is part creation in reorganizing, and I always come across drawing/paintings/sculptures that need some finishing touch... which means I seldom arrive at clearing and cleaning in a straight line.
The real extraneous franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-80923065789528756782015-01-08T20:17:00.000+01:002015-01-08T20:17:53.885+01:00new year's wish (2)
anders = different
zijn = to be
samen = together
doen = to do
open = open
voelen = to feel
franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-89215500052856342402015-01-06T21:40:00.002+01:002015-01-06T21:42:44.458+01:00new year's wish for all (1)
anders = different
zijn = to be
samen = together
doen = to do
open = open
voelen = to feel
franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-44360645097731552472014-10-31T14:41:00.001+01:002014-10-31T14:46:40.178+01:00extraneous work (ix): modern communication - social media, networking, facebook, smartphones(also see the previous post, since this is very much related to selling art and branding in the broad sense.)
modern communication (illustration for this post, own work, 2014, 10 x 15 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)
i've been reading on art, and also about specific artists... and i'm very tired of all the yada-yada that surrounds art. 'art is the new religion' is the often heard franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-36865094323199043282014-10-27T13:01:00.000+01:002014-10-27T13:03:31.323+01:00extraneous work (viii): selling art, networking, social media, branding, marketingby selling i do not only mean the actual sale of an artwork. i mean the work that is necessary to create appreciation for my art, in a broader sense. there are various ways to go about creating such appreciation in wide enough circles, and i would like to discuss some of these ways from my personal perspective.
one cannot expect to raise appreciation of one's art without taking some trouble tofranka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-83163340736431951022014-10-25T14:37:00.000+02:002014-10-25T14:42:24.778+02:00extraneous work (vii): storing art, transporting art, restoring artmost people don't stop to consider that many sculptures are fragile, and that the storage and transport of such sculptures is not trivial. even during shows it happens that sculptures get damaged by --- i have no suitable adjective --- visitors. over the past 32 years, strangely enough i've observed that storage is the hardest. because no storage is permanent (for me, with limited funds), which franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-58169795816856356102014-10-25T00:58:00.000+02:002015-04-30T00:03:35.792+02:00extraneous work (vi): presenting art, software, social media, networking, framing artout of necessity i have several art websites, including this blog. already for my artist's homepage www.fwaaldijk.nl i had to learn a minimum of html. i'm quite unsatisfied with this website, but i find it prohibitive to invest even more time in learning how build a proper website.
spend money on having someone do it for me, i'm pondering on that. my artist budget is not spacious, and i always franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-30084117167460746612014-10-23T16:25:00.000+02:002014-10-24T19:07:58.476+02:00extraneous work (5): writing about art, presenting, photographing, photoshopping writing about art to me also means presenting art visually, to accompany the writing. almost all bloggers use photographs or other images to enliven their accounts, but i dare say that presenting art works online is a special challenge. why? because:
in this day and age we still have no reliable way to represent/reproduce colours.
and certainly not online. this fact to me is still less franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-21657609748176828902014-10-23T00:34:00.000+02:002014-10-23T15:06:01.256+02:00extraneous work (4): writing about art, art contemplation, teaching artmy other dutch blog is called beeld en wereld (image and world; `beeldenwereld' means `world of images'). it started out as a blog containing notes for the art contemplation course `beeld en wereld' that i taught to art students at the unitacademy nijmegen. now i also use it infrequently as a personal blog for typically dutch art affairs. the course notes `beeld en wereld' cover a very broad franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-79830707888810713082014-10-22T11:33:00.002+02:002014-10-22T11:33:47.262+02:00extraneous work (3): writing about art, presenting art[you will by now understand that the word `extraneous' in the series' title is meant thus: `not immediately pertaining to the creation of art'.]
i write about art in different ways, one important way is this blog. but i also have two other art blogs, in dutch. the first of those is called trijntje fop gaat op de schop. it is an extensive tribute to the many many artists that inspire / have franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-46323562849808768762014-10-21T13:25:00.000+02:002014-10-21T13:25:01.365+02:00extraneous work (2): writing about art (van gogh)perhaps you remember that i wrote about multatuli earlier (my favourite dutch author, more or less from the same time period as vincent van gogh) as being perhaps the inventor of blogging, see his published ideas. sorry to see that they are still not translated in english, an unbelievable state of affairs to me. i'm not a chauvinist, this is a terrific author with truly original prose and ... franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-59472729682641907772014-10-20T15:08:00.002+02:002014-10-21T12:41:16.226+02:00intermezzo: francis bacon and van goghshould have posted this before starting the series... my `study after van gogh' reminded me suddenly of francis bacon and vincent van gogh (both in a league of their own), just let me put up some pictures of bacon's amazing series of studies 'after' van gogh:
study for a portrait of van gogh ii, francis bacon (1957, click on the image for an enlargement)
i am as usual enthralled by bacon's wayfranka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-4860516924093881302014-10-19T23:51:00.001+02:002014-10-20T11:07:09.615+02:00extraneous work (1): 6,5 years of this artist's blogso time flies. and it happens i repeat myself. what i would like to do next is start a little series on all the extra -sometimes extraneous- work that comes along with being an artist, for me at last.
is this an interesting subject? not sure. why would a musician blogging about practising scales interest me? how she has to make recordings to submit to ... and how she has to do photo shoots, buy franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-25845744050826326572014-10-18T23:33:00.001+02:002014-10-25T12:00:27.859+02:00art appreciation, a study after van gogh, and an old rotring-pen drawing
study after van gogh (own work, 2013, 30 x 21 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)
always drawing, always thinking... i also share some other artistic characteristics with van gogh. like lack of artist recognition :-). [van gogh was very avant-garde, i'm just plain old-fashioned (except in the `details'): painting, drawing, sculpting.]
seriously, after having had three exhibitions this franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-72815992358087279322014-10-16T19:19:00.000+02:002014-10-18T21:10:00.943+02:00young woman in tangerine dress (notre dame des anges)
young woman in tangerine dress (notre dame des anges) (own work, 2014, 55 x 80 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)
this painting also arose from experimenting, but it appears more traditional. if you look more closely you can see the paper cut-outs that i used to start the painting. the light tangerine colour is captured poorly by the photograph. my current three main points of painting franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-75574174594768479252014-10-16T18:59:00.000+02:002014-10-18T22:40:18.873+02:00and still more (notre dame des anges)
notre dame des anges with folded hands (own work, 2014, 55 x 80 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)
see the previous post: i'm simply working very hard to get things to work... which for now seems to imply that i'm hardly involved on a conscious/verbal level, so i can't really add much to the picture itself. endless reworking, adding of extraneous materials etc., to achieve a certain franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-59695244571552216672014-06-23T23:59:00.001+02:002014-10-18T23:48:25.534+02:00notre dame des anges (again)
notre dame des anges with shells (own work, 2013-2014, 55 x 80 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)
well, i worked hard on this painting, and yet it's like i'm still feeling my way around... perhaps this is a sign of finally reaching a stage where the result is not in my own hands. this might seem strange for an artist, but if i really want to reach other planes, then at some point i franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-34589740895035387392014-06-23T11:03:00.002+02:002014-06-23T11:03:35.352+02:00street art project by googlegoogle launched a wonderful project: street art on google view.
i'm a longtime fan of street art, for various reasons. one of these reasons is that street art relates closely to the human need for artistic (visual) expression, stripped from commercial and elitist considerations.
you can of course wonder why i do not engage in street art myself...
but that is a question of circumstance and franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-70326414886928491402014-06-03T15:36:00.001+02:002014-06-03T15:36:56.918+02:00museum van bommel van dam (15 june - 10 august 2014)from 15 june - 10 august 2014 i'm participating in the art event
join in!
in museum van bommel van dam (modern art, venlo, the netherlands)
mountain blaze (78 x 200 cm)franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-21530817528296416052014-05-07T11:32:00.001+02:002014-05-07T11:32:42.770+02:00exhibition `dance' in galerie meander 18 may - 20 july
from 18 may - 20 july 2014 i will participate in
dance
a theme exhibition in galerie meander, zevenaar (near arnhem)
dance has always been important to me, and is a main theme in my drawings for over 25 years. also on this blog you will find many posts related to dance.
you are of course cordially invited to come see the show.franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-29759666053952078412013-12-25T15:52:00.000+01:002014-02-17T12:58:34.036+01:00LaTeX in bloggeryou may or may not be aware that i also maintain a math & science & philosophy blog. an important reason for starting this as a separate blog on wordpress was that the mathematical typesetting of formulas used to be difficult on blogger. but recently things have changed, and now it is possible to use LaTeX (math formatting language/software) also in blogger, through the platform of franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-87879719866932119422013-12-25T15:39:00.001+01:002013-12-25T15:39:35.176+01:00art appreciation a century ago and today...some time ago i came across the book of tea written in 1906 by okakura kakuzō. and i was surprised to see what he had to say on the subject of art appreciation, in chapter v:
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V. Art Appreciation
...[i omit the beginning of the chapter]
It is much to be regretted that so much of the apparent enthusiasm for art at the present day has no foundation in real feeling. In this democratic age offranka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-54595760077339143512013-11-06T11:03:00.000+01:002013-11-06T11:03:01.471+01:00vincent van gogh ... speechless
vincent van gogh, a lane near arles (painted 1888)
at age 48 i'm still astounded and usually speechless when i look at vincent van gogh's paintings and drawings. we all have our own story to tell, therefore no artist should have the need to be envious, but i am envious nonetheless, more than i would normally expect of myself. not that i would want to paint the same kind of painting ... it goes franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183134399283626160.post-36597723656341324552013-11-03T15:15:00.000+01:002013-11-03T15:15:33.105+01:00Philosophy, finally (`we live through maps', art & imagination from a different perspective)You may be aware that I also maintain a math & science & philosophy blog... I have to admit that I sometimes regret not having integrated the latter blog into this one, which is my first and most important blog. But an important reason for not doing so was a technical one: Blogger does not support LaTeX, which is the formatting standard for mathematics and the exact sciences in general.
The franka waaldijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469775707351652635noreply@blogger.com0