Wolfflin Analysis Method
...simply put:
twenty-five slides of old/ new art achievements illustrating approaches:
" linear; painterly; planar; recessional; closed; open; unity; multiplicity"...
simply put...

Dumitrescu p.127 "I...draw depth of bg behind the characters; paint the surrounding elements: open window, wall ptgs, tapestry, beams, floor, carpet, open door, plants etc."
(Then I) "...introduce the characters and othr elemnts of compositn from bg forward....charactrs in an independnt relationship from state of the main compositional elements..."
much the same as one cd effectively frame a literary effort...

p.123 "(Serusier procedure represents a geometrical texture that subdivides the area of the support panel in distances and lines of force by applying the golden section)."

...exciting/ heartwarming to google two references:
1. Serusier (Paul)
2. Wolfflin Analysis Method mentioned p.126 by Romanian
www.zamfirdumitrescu.com
member of the International Guild of realist Painters
"I start w the harmonic decomposition of the ptg panel’s area.
"...from case/ case one or more of the estab procedures:
golden sectn
harmonic spiral
classic subdiv of the goldn rectangle, pentagram, dynamic rectangles or the Serusier procedure.
(this is how) "...I obtain a geometrical drama (a.k.a. independent outline)."

End Feb, newly arrived migrating bird kps announcing its presence = crow/gull sound-relief.

...well, you’ve been collecting your brown paper like I said, * windows, partially open - - fresh air - - time to think about sponge rings and chlorine:
1. all synthetic ! ! bleach on brown paper. Cheap and timorous creatures like me - afraid of ruining anything - buy at the $ store, cosmetic sponges. Random cuts of each sponge shape are strung on strong thread;
2. synthetic plus natural not bleach on thoroughly dry (even cured) brown paper. A good stamp pad colour to start with is brown;
3. all sea sponge (natural)... precious... (bleach does them in); ...very fond of my little ’elephant’s ear’ ovr 50 yrs old. For making fancy holes when you get good at the sponge thing.

* I never said...

From DESIGN STRATEGY a finalist B.C’s Mary Ann Bidder speaks of Maybrook Memories (an old barn) "For accuracy I had my son, a timbr frame buildr by trade; explain to me the significance of the wooden sub-structure, along with the buildng techniques employd to build this structure."(italics mine),

...the writer in me gravitated toward MY INSPIRATION sections with a drift into MY DESIGN STRATEGY (lesser concern for MY WORKING PROCESS) of twenty winners/finalists:
Second Prize - a Canadian from Province of Quebec - - another 24x48" The Still Before Fury "...moment before a storm...lighting betw storm cloud darkness and last bit of bright sunlight; betw stillness as winds die down and the energy builds in the sky above and in the mood betw tranquility and uncertainty..."

Winner, Internationl Artist challenge No. 49, Keith Cardnell, says of a tired word ’inspiration’ that he prefers ’resonance’.
Cd be depiction of autumn or spring - - his 24x48" ptg is resonant of long bus rides for me - Chwck-Vcr for yrs, fields "...newly ploughed... just begining to sweat off a hoar frost under the meagre heat of a near horizontal sun. "What caught my eye," he says, "was llight reflected from residual stalks shining like gold needles against a dark chocolate earth."

...repeating myself?
An early poem despairs ’All I want to be is in the machine.’ 1960s or thereabouts...long before the WCB bought its first computr - - 1970s - -
every day I passed the room it occupied. Then my own PC circa 1985;
basement of a condo (co-op living). Crying a lot.
...being a poet trying to write prose (not knowing) was even years before the 70s to burn out from all the manualMachine revisions - trying to get lines/ dialogues/ chapters/ large wholes . just right.

(PARAPHR. and MY ITALICS) "...the story (is) almost backward. Van Meegeren did fool the world and did earn a fortune for it. ... how did the experts get it so wrong? (Probably bcause)...Van Meegeren was a tireless experimenter,
a savvy tactician
and deal-maker,
and a brilliant psychologist.

...he was not an especially good painter. He found a way to make that not matter."

FORGER’S SPELL is still in hard copy. Its author’s name is Edward Dolnick.

E In 2008 THE FORGER’S SPELL was published by Harper Collins
p.16 (PARAPHRASED)"Van Meegeran’s tale has been told often. Nearly always... told wrong.
"...a genius, we read, master forger, the greatest forger who ever lived, and so on."

C. In 2006 one Michael Wolf possessed of ’an exclusive focus on obj of everyday life in vernacular settngs often found in abused, misusd or makeshft condns’ releasd, taken at Dafen village, photos of possibly ptrs OR workers holding paintings at Dafen galleries. Photos shown in San Francisco were a ’...critique in appealing detail of the impoverishment and brokenness of contemp. China.’

D. In 20007 one Christian Jankowski "conducted a broad survey of the galleries at Dafen village.’ and commissiond som ptrs to do work for him. The final items opened a new gallery in New York with
’...each paintng signed on the back by the Dafen paintr, each also issued w a certificate authenticatng it as a Jankowski work of art.’

Lifting 1 - - This and That
I started Aug. 2008 blog w comments x the mag. Yishu and tucked away an article about Dafen village just ’outside the bordr of the Shenzhen Sp. Economic Zone’
Dafen village had bn ’...supplyng Western consumr markets w mass-prod ccs of (scarce) items sourced x the Western canon.’ Early insipid copies evolved in 20 yrs to ’a seemingly endless parade of ptgs (now) aftr works by Gerard Richter, Neo Rausch, Loretta Lux, On Kawara and so on...’.
...can’t hope for yrs and yrs to sort : Copyists, (Old mastrs apprenticed via copying; ’illuminators’ rarely acknowledgd; a master frequently signed something rendered by assistant[s]), appropriators, imitators, inspired by and the ’after So-and-So’ quotational art, and readymades - -.

A. 1993 two women C. Lazarus/ J. Berman pulled togethr twenty needlepoint projects inspired by famous ptgs of Sisley, Cassat, Morrisot et al. A worthy book publshd by Random Hse, England.

B. 2005 - Cap College students "...w inspirational hlp from well-known artists - Gogh, Hopper, Degas and others", produced an art calender featuring Vcr’s urban/natural settings.

’SCRAPLIFTING’
Quoting a Contrib Editor:
"Picasso’s composition is an abstract still life depicting a dish of fruit, a violin and a glass. The centerpiece of this collage is the violin..." w readership then dictating :
"For our scrapbook collage, we chose a photograph of a child as the focal point." Of eight image variatns two are photo duplicates and six are ’brushes’ (film strips of 50% or less size reductn of focal item).

Word bias can be strong : I can’t see this as ’lifting’. ’Lifting’ to me connotes a skim - - removal, a kind of theft. Given resultant layout, inaccurate phrase-coining, TITLING, or name-dropping as comeOns are disservices to the future of so-called ’digital collaging’.

Before I foreget - courtesy digitalScrapbooking.com

collagemuseum.com
pasteandpixels.com
collageart.org
collagemania.blogspot.com
artlex.com

picture a Vancouver Gastown bldg (triangular - ’flatiron’?). Extreme top L but mid-distant, figure w umbrella. Behind, a smaller fig./ umbrella. Foreground a man (at L). To his R holding his arm a woman - both sheltered by a blackish bumpershoot shiny with the rain. Foregrnd crowded : going the other way (cd be rear, Army & Navy) fourth figure hugging the wall half umbrella only. But this is not Vcr, it’s rather 1876 Paris, Caillebotte’s A Rainy Day which for spirit/ colour / composition could be ’scraplifted’ being sufficiently close to the familiar we know.

...a naval architect, yachtsman... passionate gardener who might have ignited Monet w enthusiasm for flowr growng."
"... very wealthy and during the years of non-recognition helped struggling group members - - "... bought ptgs at inflatd prices, gave them gifts, and according to one story bought back his own paintings at auction to raise money for a group exhibition."

"Monet, Renoir, Manet, Degas, Pissarro, Sisley and Cezanne," we recognize, but who’d know the painter who gave these exact works eventually "to the nation" (Renoir as executor). Gustave Caillebotte was, "inestimably important to the Impressionists individually and to the movement as a whole."

So, consider - - contemp economic problems and in the art scene "similar failures of qual; inability to see new directns; stiff new competion" etc. It does take "10,000 hrs" to develop an individual’s alertness amid an immediate- environment sagacity for spearheading....
Still the hints are, ’spend’. On what? Where are the teachers from the 1960s "world of Am. experimentalism"? What shall I buy: Combustion engine surplus? Toys R Us plastics of off shore design? Row hsg going up around me?

E. Dipple intro p.11 "...in 1971 Tony Tanner published City of Words - a study of contemp American lit in the 1960s - the world of Am. experimentalism looked bright and promising. Subsequently, ... a failure of quality, an inability to see new directions, stiff new competition from Latin Americans / Europeans and an almost total failure of audience response." ("... failure of complex experimental writers to win convinced Am. or international audiences"). Inside or outside ’the academy’

Elizabeth Dipple’s intro to THE UNRESOLVABLE PLOT.
"Parody (p.9) requires redefinition, because for many readers it still carries negative connotations indicating a degradation of a primary text by the wit of a destructively comic imitation. As metafictional norms proliferate, this standard but primitive definition is replaced by a more sophisticated idea of the positive effects of parody as a meditation on the literature and texts of the past."