[AGL] who is Waldo Lydecker

[Connie Clark]

WJ
  The basics of drawing and seeing goes to a similar idea that I had regarding civil engineering, in that all engineering students should not only take surveying classes (some don't these days), but perhaps spend a semester as a rod man on a survey crew.  It would be similar don't you think.
   
  Pretty much all of the major exhibitors here in Houston this Spring are worth the effort to see - and it does take time and energy to get over to the dozen or so exhibit spaces scattered around town.  There are a lot of adjunct galleries showing photos also, but they turn out to be a little on the wall calendar quality photos - pretty but....
   
  Techniques are all over the place.  Two artists I've seen are doing the photos of photos, laying organic materials over photo 1 with a mixture of b/w photo and color beans or twigs, a collage effect.
   
  Another thing I noticed are the work titles.  I often wonder about this, and in fact at a Man Ray show at the Houston Museum a few years back, I asked the guy who wrote the Banquet Years?  he was lecturing the opening - anyway, I had noticed that Man Ray tends to give very strange titles to his works, some artists just call their pieces #1 in a series, etc., so there must be something the artist is trying to convey when they compose a wierd indecipherable title.  oh yeah, it was Roger Shattuck, and he gave me a snobby answer, like I shouldn't expect the titles to mean anything.  What do you think?
   
  I didn't catch the WL reference, so will have to google it and see what I missed from you oh clever and reverent one.
   
  Oh, btw, you may be glad to hear that photographic art is selling big these days - with prices getting closer to paintings.
   
  Connie



		
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