From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 6:27 PM PT
To: Raye Anne Marks
Cc: rest;
Subject: RE: Emailing: NOTES ON STARTING A PAINTING
Has
Sebastian commented on your notes?
Did you
notice how you got about 63% odd of the way through the trade-secret material
before saying, “Now
you are ready to begin painting”?
I might use
your last paragraph in the last paragraph of my forthcoming book, THE HISTORY OF MONEY CREATION AND ITS
FUTURE! to repeat:
Our tendency is to complicate things. We can see every single thing there. If you want to do this you can, but only once
you have established this basic simple statement of values. But “we” [sic]
aware that the basic strong statement of values will be weakened by a large
amount of details. It is much better to
squint your eyes at this stage and strategically choose only the most important
details.
Does the
statement “Beware of the Yellow Peril” have you feeling more respect for
this art aware people or fear which the least talented of hot head talking
heads in the west would prefer as they paint China as the new EVIL EMPIRE so afraid to adopt
these so old cultured, merit system driven hard working, hard playing peoples
that all their “smart” invaders chose as their own versus the not the
not-so-smart, “gift of the gab” westerners hooked on “money, money, money, me,
me, me” so unaware of the meaning of the west’s oft used expression, “The
Emperor Has No Clothes”?
Now all you
may need mention is “pricing” both in terms of cost of materials, knowledge and
retail pricing for those EXTRAORDINARILY FEW students of the
best art professor of possibly all time who are capable first of all
understanding what you wrote let alone complete the execution without Sebastian
fixing all their mistakes.
What do you
think of the idea that we put on an exhibition exhibiting the works of all Sebastian’s
students' unsold paintings and for Sebastian to grade them first on a scale
between 1 and 10 and then next to this number what percent he thinks he
contributed.
Not to
mention what might attract all his students to be “forthcoming” is for them to
beware that at the end of the day his signature alone may be worth more than
all their other assets combined.
To mention
little of me thinking of commissioning Sebastian to paint the inside of the
studio we plan on building for Marie at the Stone Home.
To mention
in passing at what point do you think the drawings he has done so far would
make economic sense to make into geeclays?
It is my
humble but not necessarily seasoned opinion that all one needs to change the
view of the moron art critics who make a living promoting no talent artists
like Pollack is just one, possibly two of
Sebastian’s extraordinarily talented and “smart money” students to “make an
example” of these nincompoop art “quick money” critics looking to make
money out of the so many non-talented artists by inviting them to a
seminar-workshop aimed exclusively at empowering them by making certain there
are young minded people in the audience asking all the right questions
beginning with you answering why you choose to share your “trade secrets” at no
more than what the “market will bare” [sic]?
And why not
combine such seminar-workshops with that “real-tycheck” [sic] student
exhibition!
From: Raye Anne Marks [mailto:
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 3:12 PM
To: Raye Anne Marks
Subject: Emailing: NOTES ON STARTING A PAINTING
Hi, I
thought you might enjoy some notes I have been keeping on how to start a
painting from Sebastian. Raye Anne
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