Orhan Pamuk at MOMA
Here is Orhan Pamuk himself, speaking about the poetry of the everyday:
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MY NAME IS RED
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My Name Is Red Pinterest Boards
A Pinterest Board (or several): Those who attended this month's discussion liked the idea of sharing images relating to My Name is Red. The question is, do we keep this board private? I think that is what we want. Right now the board is locked. I will need your Pinterest link if you have one, or your email address in order to send you the link. I do not claim to know the ins and outs of Pinterest so any and all suggestions are welcome!
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Vaishali Prazmari
Apr 21
Thank you for this wonderful initiative @Mary Yaeger and thanks also for finding and adding me so seamlessly that all I had to do was press a button to join, hehe! I look forward to some collaborative inspo.
3 QUESTIONS FOR THE MASTER PAINTER
The Master is asked what distinguishes a great miniaturist from an ordinary one. He replies that in order to determine how ‘genuine’ a young painter is, he would ask 3 questions.
“Has he come to believe, under the sway of recent custom as well as the influence of the Chinese and the European Franks, that he ought to have an individual painting technique, his own style? As an illustrator, does he want to have a manner, an aspect distinct from others, and does he attempt to prove this by signing his name somewhere in his work like the Frankish masters? To determine precisely these things, I’d first ask him a question about ’style’ and ‘signature’.”
“Then, I’d want to learn how this illustrator felt about volumes changing hands, being unbound, and our pictures being used in other books and in other eras after the shahs and sultans who’d commissioned them…
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READ THIS FIRST: MY NAME IS RED - GENERAL OVERALL THOUGHTS
This book is a murder mystery set in the world of Ottoman miniature painting and in my opinion really gets into the mind and heart of a miniature painter. It’s as if the author Orhan Pamuk himself has the soul of a miniature painter and it spoke directly to me. There is even some interesting technical info to be gleaned from the book. Has anyone read this book? (I highly recommend!) I actually wanted to set up a book club for books and writing related to painting as it really got me thinking. Many of the forum Context topics arose from reading this book and thinking about eastern and western painting styles, and how they are, in fact (for me at least, and as I get older and discover more about them and go deeper into the artistic mind) points on a continuum, rather than a ‘versus’. This is my…
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Vaishali Prazmari
Apr 21
I know, I know... it sucks you in to this fascinating world and it won't let you go in a hurry! I've convinced 2 other people to read it hopefully so we can tentatively start to talk about the first chapter next week for the monthly meeting....? Or save till January. However you like.
On that note, I also recommend reading The Spirit of Indian Painting by Goswamy. It's just brilliant and on the 'must-have' list I now recommend!
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OH my goodness... 3 of my loves together! Joseph Cornell was a bit like a miniaturist in that he worked on his mother's kitchen table to make his work, so quite domestic (I'm thinking of family painters and how not everyone has a dedicated studio). Cabinets of curiosities were my great love on my BA and I have tons of books on this in - appropriately - the attic in my grandmother's house! And now with kids I'm revisiting and rediscovering all that - hoping to give them a new lease of life in my paintings. I also bonded with my then-boyfriend-now-husband over our love of antiques and flea markets; we would scour the old Portobello ones (mostly gone now, they used to be like underground warrens - we got some real treasures!) and the Parisian ones too on our 'dates' hehe! And despite my efforts to be like a modern Montessori minimal mama our house is... the maximal, museum-like polar opposite. It's just like that, an art life and you can't help it. I love Joseph Cornell and encourage everyone to get to know this fascinating artist and character - there are a few good books published on his work.