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Painting and Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay
Q: What is Cubist?
A: Someone, who analyzes, breaks up, and reassembles objects, in an abstracted form, is often, in today’s information and tolerance society, identified, and labelled, as being “Cubist”.
People, who are really Cubist, are known to be totally dismissive of cultural and societal norms, to distort knowns, to be formally inaccurate; further, they have a total disregard for proper shading.
These days, with the popularity of The World Wide Web, Cubism is casting a dismal, and slightly mildewy, shadow upon people, who know better: who have outgrown the unsophisticated, and uncouth, behaviours of those previous generations, who didn’t know better.
Cubism is the tool, of the unenlightened. People, who are really Cubist, are really, really, not getting it. That’s why, they do it.
(historical sources and references: Wikipedia)
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
In addition to Seurat, the roots of cubism are to be found in the two distinct tendencies of Cézanne’s later work: first his breaking of the painted surface into small multifaceted areas of paint, thereby emphasizing the plural viewpoint given by binocular vision , and second his interest in the simplification of natural forms into cylinders, spheres, and cones. However, the cubists explored this concept further than Cézanne. They represented all the surfaces of depicted objects in a single picture plane, as if the objects had all their faces visible at the same time. This new kind of depiction revolutionized the way objects could be visualized in painting and art.
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Ah yes. The old photography darkrooms, always going from light into darkness. “Coming through”, we’d say. “Coming through”.
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And did I ever see anyone sitting in the corner reading “where the wild things are” by red light? No sir I did not.
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We simply developed.
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Huge fan though.
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No. I don’t think I can. It’s hugely embarrassing.
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Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
Can’t think why.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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Still. There was other music around, it wasn’t just endless repeats of the one song, I can tell you.
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Yep. Top of the charts, 1976, Abba. You know who liked Abba? I did. If I had to do the same, again, I would, my friend. Fernando.
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Yeah, cyan, magenta, yellow.
I have a question for all you technically knowledgeable. I put a DVD into my TV last night. Before starting they had a circle and said if your TV doesn’t show a perfect circle, take out the DVD and adjust your set. My circle ‘O’, looked like this ‘0’-I wondered why everyone had a Modiglianian look about them-how would I adjust my 10-12 yr old set? Please……
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First questions?
I assume you have narrow band viewing, is that the problem. And do you have a remote for the set?
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Hi ‘Shoe,
What’s a narrow band viewing, please?
Yes, I have a remote control. Also, I view it via the DVD machine. Although the set is 10-12 years old it was programmed for digital way before it became mandatory. Which about sums up my knowledge of the beast.
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I meant a strip of image, more like a stripe or a reel of film than filling the screen hence my use of the image ‘narrow band’…
Venise, I wonder how I ever managed to learn to talk sometimes to learn to communicate stuff.
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Let us know anyway how you got on. There is an adjustment you can make easily using a remote as I recall it but suddenly remember we are not on Facebook that we can rapidly communicate to jog my memory. I am sorry to not have thought that out first Venise.
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That’s alright ‘Shoe. I think my remote would open the garage for me-it’s got so many buttons. I’ll just have to study the thing.
Sometimes I wonder how I’ve even learned to work a computer……
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Yes, that’s right Lehan. When I studied photography-and was printing my own shots-I had a Magenta, Cyan…….what was the third colour? Anyway Kodak put it out, filter for adjusting my colour-head enlarger to make accurate, and arty, prints. Now everything is digital, no more darkroom.
Once again, that image is terrific.
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Two years to do it prop’ly, another two to figure out how to make an Instagram. Oh, those wasted years.
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I absolutely love that image. Composition, colour, soul, and humour. It doesn’t come much better than that. Congratulations.
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I drink at this pub for the education. 🙂
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I drink at this pub, and edjacayshun is a by-product.
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We should have a drink together sometime Big M and all the gang. Get Merv in and crank up the old telly for the ones who need to watch the Heartbeat Repeats and everything.
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I’m not fond of labels myself, Lehan, and am reluctant to pin them on others too… but were I asked to define your work within ‘recognized’ artistic genres, I don’t think I would ever accuse you of being a ‘cubist’, let alone a ‘Cubist’; you seem more like an ‘abstract expressionist’ to me, though as I’ve said I hate labels because once someone accepts a label, as I am constantly rediscovering, all anyone then ever sees of that person from that point onward is the label…
So please feel free to reject my suggestion along with any implied label; all we piglets know there’s much more to you than any label.
Once again, a lovely painting, with beautifully balanced contrasts and a bright and lively style…
🙂
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That is so true and hard hitting Lehan. I like the painting of contrasting colours. True contrasting colours are always between a primary colour, Blue,Red and Yellow and their secondary colours, which are two primary colours mixed together. So, the opposite of blue is orange (yellow and red), the opposite of red is green (blue and yellow), and with yellow is purple (red and blue).
Your painting is lovely and has both the three primary and the three secondary colours. Well done.
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Re: Opposite colours….doesn’t cyan come in here somewhere? Gotta rush. See ya…..
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At school we learn about red-yellow-blue for mixing colours.
It seems that with printing presses, they moved to cyan-majenta-yellow (and black) as it gave more shades of colour. Also more colours, I guess.
Colour photography uses CMYK. So do computers.
In the first two years I painted I only used RYB and black and white. Then I got some gold, and some silver. Last year Atomou sent me some paints and there were colours I couldn’t make. I hesitated. But it was irresistible. Next thing I knew there were cats everywhere.
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No, actually I think it might be more accurate to say that there were cartes everywhere.
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Interesting, because the original colour CRT was Red/Blue/Green.
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Yes you’re right BigM.
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the colours (for viewing machines) are red blue and green
the colourants (dyes) (for printing machines) are cyan yellow magenta black
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Yeah, I don’t get it.
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This weird difference between the image and the printing. I wonder if we’re going to see something like that in 3D printing.
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Well, I guess they did try to warn us. Those photo theorists.
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s-s-s-simulacrum
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I’ll be back one day soon for a listen to the s-s-s-sounds, Lehan, s-s-s-see you, s-s-s-soon.
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