tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post978900635452501594..comments2024-03-28T00:23:01.632-04:00Comments on Lem's Levity: weighing of the heartTrooper Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-55270951434515887652016-10-04T17:15:31.565-04:002016-10-04T17:15:31.565-04:00ricpic, After I figured out it was The Door that w...ricpic, After I figured out it was The Door that went by the Should Have-Did Not title, I then went on to find two more I thought might be the one you were referencing, so it was a good search. Plus I liked the last line, where he says "it happens to almost everybody, almost every day". <br /><br />It's names and links like this that make blog-reading fun in the midst of election angst, lies and a crisis in leadership. Who paints a 1/2 inch square a day, calls it life and leaves a legacy? <br /><br />I don't need a do-over, I need a do-more, or do-less, or do-something-different. I need to remember that a 1/2 inch can make a difference.MamaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00300520132972757396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-68883748677065955572016-10-04T14:27:49.263-04:002016-10-04T14:27:49.263-04:00MamaM -- your comment forces me to admit I made a ...MamaM -- your comment forces me to admit I made a mistake calling <i>That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do</i> the portrait of a ruined old man. That painting is titled <i>And Man Made God In His Own Image.</i> To further complicate matters, when that painting was exhibited the museum which showed it turned the title around to <i>And God Made Man In His Own Image.</i> Which of course is the more plausible or at least generally agreed upon formula. Most interesting of all, Albright did not object to the inversion of his own title. Who knows, maybe he had second thoughts.......ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-90229813923760953682016-10-04T14:13:52.624-04:002016-10-04T14:13:52.624-04:00I live and learn, ricpic.
Albright was intervie...I live and learn, ricpic. <br /><br /><i>Albright was interviewed by Vermont Public Radio in 1978. He says that to make That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, which is 8 feet tall and three feet wide, he cut a hole in the floor of his studio and rested it four feet below the floor, raising and lowering it as he painted. He says he painted about a ½ square inch a day, and never changed anything as he went. Here’s what he says about his titles: "I will tell you why. When I was a boy I met all of these artists and they would have titles like Boys Sitting by a Stream, The Sunshine on the Girl’s Hat, Girl Holding a Daisy, Boy Eating an Apple. I got pretty tired of them. I heard them from 1903 until 1920. I probably was the first one who decided not to have those titles; I was going to have something that the painting said. If you know art and like art, you will see so much in it. I thought, to help people along, I would take a title with a little other, you might say, dimension. If, for instance, I bring a picture of Ida into the world, it becomes Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida. She was a 20-year-old married woman, and I knew they were going to call her a prostitute and ugly, so I called her a soul. Not everybody can call a soul a prostitute. I like to get a little bit of my philosophy in the title, and I like That Which I Should Have Done. It happens to almost everybody, almost every day."</i>MamaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00300520132972757396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-9037986463990731202016-10-04T12:41:26.642-04:002016-10-04T12:41:26.642-04:00It's probably universal: the sense of being ju...It's probably universal: the sense of being judged by a deity. I once knew a woman who denied God but spoke often of a higher power. Anyway, almost everyone has a sense that there is something that they must do. And someone (or some power) behind that imperative. The American painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (what a great name) gave the title <i>That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do</i> to an excruciating depiction of a ruined old man.ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-8809577950266576412016-10-04T00:28:15.547-04:002016-10-04T00:28:15.547-04:00I was going to write "oh shit" but I sen...I was going to write "oh shit" but I sensed through vibration in the force that people are growing a bit impatient of my careless swears so I'm trying to knock it the fuck off. I meant to say just now, stop it. Tourette's is not so easy to live with, you know. Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-45314614962144734232016-10-03T22:03:22.041-04:002016-10-03T22:03:22.041-04:00She;s got more than an uh-oh coming if they've...She;s got more than an uh-oh coming if they've got a gurney waiting at every rally.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.com