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Seeing Painting
Nevin Mercede

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PROJECT STATUS: This book has been proposed as a project and is now seeking team members. Using the links at left, apply to join the team and help make this book happen. Seeing Painting explores historical, scientific and socially relational developments that contribute to what Painting offers as twenty-first century expressive cultural communication. Visual practices are its story’s main characters—Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Drawing—as these are the collective enterprise of countless artists and the historical events that shaped them. Seeing Painting doesn’t focus on specific materials or build through progressively challenging techniques, instead it presents an expanded discussion on the interwoven meanings inherent in Painting’s constituent materiality: the physical and conceptual materials, the types of time and space their exploration requires, and how a painting’s expressions emerge interdependently within a larger cultural arena. I call this Painting’s gestalt, meaning that its whole is larger than the sum of its parts. In the first section, “A Contextual Minefield”, topics include the quality of attention we offer the art we make, what contributes to the estrangement between Americans and contemporary art, and the relationships that connect and separate Painting and Photography; abstraction and observable reality. “Gathering Tools” presents a detailed look at most of the tools and materials that painters use, including ideas, practice and time among these. “Weaving Visual Gestalt” renders the material into visual language and explores how traditional structures for that language are used today. “Practice in Community” addresses the intersection of creative practice and contemporary culture, and revisits some of the opening concerns. Notes on the Project: Most interested in connecting with an experienced editor to determine if the shape of the book needs reworking, I am also looking for guidance on whether to remove parts or add additional material.

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[About Healing]

Art is about context. So is consulting to a group to help the group understand its identity. This is how I help others work effectively. It reminds me of Van Gogh and how he showed more than just the image.