<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Walton Ford brings testosterone to nature painting]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/bendrick2/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:16:43 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/bendrick2/1 Audubon, etc.

How I envy people with this sort of talent!

And yet, as much as these images thrill me, and as much as I admire these very believable, very real glimpses into the lives of animals -- real, however surreal they may be -- , I think they are wonderful especially because I would never depict animals the way Walton Ford has depicted them.  That is one of the things art is supposed to do: show us things we would never have seen without the assistance of the artist.

Same with Audubon, one of the greatest figures of the 19th century, and of American history, IMHO.  True, we may well be impatient with his morality regarding the suffering of animals.  So, how happy for us, then, that we had an Emerson and a Thoreau at the same time.

On the other hand, what is it with the alleged eroticism of these images?  If it is there, well, I just do not get it, not even in the explicitly sexual bonobo picture.  There is too much else going on.

Also, Lou Bendrick's reading of Le Jardin strikes me as quite wrong.

]]> Audubon, etc.

How I envy people with this sort of talent!

And yet, as much as these images thrill me, and as much as I admire these very believable, very real glimpses into the lives of animals -- real, however surreal they may be -- , I think they are wonderful especially because I would never depict animals the way Walton Ford has depicted them.  That is one of the things art is supposed to do: show us things we would never have seen without the assistance of the artist.

Same with Audubon, one of the greatest figures of the 19th century, and of American history, IMHO.  True, we may well be impatient with his morality regarding the suffering of animals.  So, how happy for us, then, that we had an Emerson and a Thoreau at the same time.

On the other hand, what is it with the alleged eroticism of these images?  If it is there, well, I just do not get it, not even in the explicitly sexual bonobo picture.  There is too much else going on.

Also, Lou Bendrick's reading of Le Jardin strikes me as quite wrong.

]]> Comment #2 by karenc http://www.grist.org/article/bendrick2/ Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:45:43 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/bendrick2/2 Wild and Wonderful

Wonderful to see this in Grist!  We need images, music, dance.... to supplement all the words (which can wear me down easily).  So powerful- I remember seeing his work in Orion magazine in 2003 and being enthralled by a vision not my own.  Yes, Canis, we need art for this- ways to see that are different than our usual, languages that speak to unknown parts of our selves.  For this, and so much more, I am grateful.

]]> Wild and Wonderful

Wonderful to see this in Grist!  We need images, music, dance.... to supplement all the words (which can wear me down easily).  So powerful- I remember seeing his work in Orion magazine in 2003 and being enthralled by a vision not my own.  Yes, Canis, we need art for this- ways to see that are different than our usual, languages that speak to unknown parts of our selves.  For this, and so much more, I am grateful.

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