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The Art Spirit by painter Robert Henri
is probably not a book you're going to read straight through.
After all, its title page describes the contents as:
Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students,
Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making,
the Study of Art Generally,
and on Appreciation
But it's perfect for dipping into when you need a jolt of wisdom and a fresh way of looking at whatever it is that you're wrestling with.
"Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way, we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.
Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition. "
I don't know about you, but reading that is both encouraging and frightening. Each day stands new. Artistically, you are neither bound by nor excused by what you've done before. Art is invention. Beauty is discovered. Life is not repetition.
The Nonfiction Monday roundup is
here.
I just finished "Grief Girl", by my fantabulous Aussie friend Erin Vincent. It's a must read and I'm not just saying that because I love the girl. It's a searing, honest, beautifully written account of overwhelming grief after parents were killed by a speeding tow truck while crossing a road - when Erin was all of 14.
It's a brave book, written by a funny, brave and wonderful woman. If you're in the NYC area, Erin is going to be signing books at Barnes and Noble in Greenwich Village (Ave of the Americas at 8th Street) at 7:30 on Wednesday March 21st (that's this Wednesday). I'm going, so hope to see you NYC peeps there!
Another fab book I read was Tamar by Mal Peet, who is becoming one of my new favorite YA authors. It's about two British operatives who parachute into Holland to help the Dutch resistance during the "Hunger Winter" in 1944. Highly recommended.
Oh! And I'm so excited...my daughter was complaining about how she didn't have any good books to read so I went to my bookshelves and pulled out my 1937 original printing copy of "Ballet Shoes" by Noel Streitfield. The book originally belonged to my aunts Barbara (Garrison, a children's book writer and illustrator) and Marilyn, (one of the first female photographers at Magnum, with photos on the cover of Newsweek, who then decided to become a Buddhist nun later in life) and read it multiple times as a kid. I read her the first chapter and now she's engrossed in it. Don't you just love when your kids find joy in books you adored as a child?
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The Art Spirit by painter Robert Henri
This one is in my read and re-read stack. Always good for a little dose of inspiration.
Definitely one of my favorites!
I followed that book link and see Henri was considered the leader of the Ashcan School movement in art, which I had to look up. But that's just to say: Huh. You learn something new every day. Edward Hopper (also a student of Henri's) was later lumped into that category, too (here's my source, which I am assuming is accurate).
I did not know that. I love Hopper (and don't you, too, Sara? Didn't you see an exhibit recently, which makes me so jealous?)
Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday . . . Life is not a repetition.
That's a pretty high standard, and a pretty great thing to shoot for.
How cool! I'll have to check this one out.