This World We've Built - Interview with Artists Abby Shahn and "Fang"
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Abby Shahn has been living and working in Maine since 1969; she is one of the state's most important and celebrated artists. Her work hovers between the figurative and the non-objective, showing that no boundaries are needed. She explains, "I believe that all painting is abstract. However, even in the most non-objective paintings, I always find there is an illusion of space that is a kind of realism." Critic Ken Greenleaf describes Shahn's ability to paint, as being like a highly-skilled jazz performer, she just picks up the horn and blows it, and what comes out has coherence, order, and emotional resonance. She sees rhythm as the basis of all art.
“Fang evokes the pleasure he takes in rescuing discarded objects, of gathering and assembling them. His work is not only about accumulating, for editing is important as well. It is also an on-going process that’s profoundly tied to his daily life. What he describes gets to the core of what assemblage as an artistic practice is about, for it is the putting together, the assembling that produces meaning.”
Fang's statement comes from Véronique Plesch, 2021, Maine Arts Journal.
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Just great. Makes me feel like I'm not alone. I've always said that "being creative is like being cursed by gypsies at berth." And yet it is all we can do. So I live with my wonderful curse.
I had not heard that. I can relate. Thanks for sharing, and remember...we are not common, but we are everywhere ☮
Let's collect everything we come across and make art. What a concept, not for everyone. Certainly seems to work for you. Enjoy !
It's about seeing the creative potential in everything. I took am an assemblage artist. It started with seeing and saving bottle caps and gum wrappers and anything rusting as a kid and always seeing them as potential art.
@@ravenofthewild Thank You for responding Ms. Wild
what a beautiful presentation this is ! two fascinating daredevils brave enough to stand alone & be totally who they are ! if i could 👍🏻 this 100 times , i would ❤
Great. I loved them and can understand their happiness. I once headed to Maine, wanted to live and work there as an artist. Too bad I couldn't find what I was looking for...
Recently I have been thinking about childhood.....as a child the tiniest leaf or pool of water was magical.....then exams and jobs begin....you pretend to be grownup and ACT like a grownup....then the tiny leaf or pool of water is ignored for grownup routines....it's easy to see how the magic goes away......the love and magic is the most important part of life not the act of playing at been grown up.
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Yaşamak başka şey
Sanatla yaşamak başka...
Bundan daha güzeli bir dost ile sanat yaparak yaşamak...
Sağlık ve esenlik içinde olun
To be is to be perceived
Creativity keeps your mind sharp. Your body goes to shit though.
Just so creepy...disturbing. nothing looks pleasant or light. light as in elevated. I wouldn't like to come across this place. surely, these are two men, too.
well we know where some of the sky trumpet sounds are coming from
A fifth and a case and a weekend to hang with these guys. They remind me of an artist I knew named Terry O'shea. His house was packed with art of his. And his yard too. He was always up to something creative. I'm the kind of artist that likes to have an idea before working. Terry didn't have that problem. He'd just start stacking rocks, or hanging stuff from a tree, or put powdered graphite on the floor against the wall to track the mouse in his house. Terry was the most interesting person I ever met. RIP Terry.
Thank you so much for this video. Abby and Fang, you are two totally creative beings and somehow I am grateful that you have avoided the crush of the high end galleries at least for a lot of your lives. I am also an artist and I don't believe that I can do both: create and market. Two different sides of my life. I choose creativity! Hugs from Laara in Canada
I thought they were two men? Is the person on the right Abby?
That's what I wondered ... the one with a moustache is a woman???? Geez. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I think it is 2 men.
Did I miss something?
@@robinhendrickson511 Yikes. After I read your comment, I looked up the name and believe it or not ... the one on the right IS a woman. 😲😲😲 The moustache is very deceiving. 🤔🤔🤔
Google her....there is more out there.
Does it matter?
Cool folks. Minding their own business and digging it.
Really interesting video. I loved hearing them talk. They are the real deal for sure. Thank you so much for creating this video!!
Makes me feel better about me having too much stuff.
"When your empty your ready for anything". Absolutely! We are all so full of ourselves, beliefs, assumptions and opinions that there is no soace left within for vision which requires us to be present and see the world as it is, not how we've been taught or think it is. See everything as if it's the first time and it can be anything you choose. Very cool...these are my people 🙏💞
That's where the beauty was during the multiple times I have lost absolutely everything I had in the world overnight.
The walker guy looks like hes high as a kite
I love these people and this lovely video about them.
Your dedication to creativity is uplifting and encouraging, to all us fellow travelers 🎶☮❤
lol they creep me out
I think they are okay, but the hat over the eyes is a bit strange.
Quick question…..have you ever called in T-Rex at least a squatch with your musical musings at the beginning of this video…..👀
LOve it! Rural Maine is rife with folks like this.We are so lucky.
Looks like paradise! No snobs.
If drugs could talk .😅
Great interview thank you for bringing these two and their talent to light
I believe we've found where the root source of those unexplainable sounds being heard time to time all around the world. 😅
attainment is a fleeting thing...
Fine line between art, junk and hoarding
Love your expression of self...you hold nothing back.
I love the idea of”reanimating” pieces into art
I notice the difference between create someting with a theme in mind, or letting go, gettin started and get surprised by the process and the result. My art is always a surprise, an adventure, a child´s play (I´ve worked with oxide too!, always playing with sticks or cans hahaa). But the art market and society absurd rules cause me anxiety and depression. I need only "being" and "making", but sadly, we need to eat, to dress and those things. Huge hug for these kindred spirits♥.Thanks for sharing.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles; I recently befriended a few souls in the ghost town of Keeler. I was always made self conscious of my idolotry. This felt like home.
I just want to know, whose job is it to dust? Definitely a fun place❤
I was thinking that as well😂
Strange ? For one of the state's most important and celebrated artists, she does not have very high Action and Sales stats regardless of how wonderful her art is.
'Show me a computer that makes mud pies' 💓
my kinda peeps. Thanks for sharing!
These dudes are like distant cousins of The Beverly Hillbillies …
cannot say how much i love this. you inspire me. thank you.
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Hauntingly beautiful and familiar!?
They are THE REAL DEAL!
I don’t know why someone chose to use such creepy and harrowing music while we are looking at such beautiful creative expressions.
It sounds like the sounds he was creating on that bow thing at the beginning, so I think it could be his very own music
@@xvola6888yes the video poster said it's his music he made....
It's a theriman made of found items it's amazing
Analog invention
you really hit the nail on the head. intentions kind of mess up art in many ways.
Celebrate mediocrity
Looks like the 21st century has missed them.
She needs a shave 😮
No a lawn mower 🤣🤣🤣🤣but I ❤️the FREEDOM of their creative lifestyle❤️😎. I’m jealous!!!!!!!
I don’t think she needs a damn thing … 😘 maybe in your mind … 🥰
Random intoxication
I love everything about this.
Bricoleurs
❤️👍😉
Stupid to Stupider to Stupidest. Stupid is not art and I am done with stupid things. Perhaps they could 'discover' a cello and 'discover' Bach.
Obsession is key. If youre not obsessed with what you do, dont bother.
Where is this, looks like the tropics
This was filmed in Solon, Maine
🤍💛🧡💗💚💙💜🤎🖤✌
Love these guys…never heard of them before I saw this video. Now i don’t feel so strange. Being creative and having many talents is not so bad after all…
Is everything art? Trash is art,noise is art,mental illness is real people…..God bless.
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They are kind of unintentionally gangster. 😂
These are my kid of people. ❤ I love idolatry too. I love garden gnomes 😂❤
Love them! They are so inspirational!
Texas Chainsaw Masacre Origin 3D Imax
They will bust hell wide open!
All druggies talk about ‘the now’ ‘no mind’ etc …I mean come on dude!
you'll never get it.
😍👏👊
Weird
That whole place is a piece of art. Imagine trying to find a spot at the Smithsonian and then transporting it there. Wow.
It's a disgusting health hazard
🤠👍👌🌞🎉
Thank god for people like you. This is art, real creativity. You’d never experience this in a gallery. Your lives are so inspiring.
The video maker put stupid unnecessary “creepy “ music in. What a shame.
The music was made by Fang, whenever possible we include music that is made by the artist we are interviewing.
Filth is not Art .
Yes, But art can be filthy …. Open your mind a tad 😊
allot of hot air with little to say for itself.
Sounds like you
Maybe you lack ears to hear.
Just tiresome, tired trite and exhausting
But aside from that, you still enjoyed it, right?
really?
That's my take, too. I know art is "subjective" ... but these kinds of people and stories have become boring.
@@qso3566 ask the Uffizi if they would trade all the Damian Hirst's in the world for one 'David'. Art is not silly/stupid subjective.
@@sylviacarlson3561 yes, very really. I will add predictable delusional blather.