The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17354 Message #167612
Posted By: Peter T.
24-Jan-00 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Age and being excited by music
Subject: RE: Age and being excited by music
Wolf, I sympathise, but in a different area. When I was 32 I had spent 15 years devouring art all over the world, and then I just lost my interest in it. I would go into galleries, and it would just not be anything like it was when I was 20 or 25. I think it is a sign of shifting gears, you are in the middle of a shift. And if you keep trying to push it into being like it was earlier, that only makes it worse: you have to go to a new place. My shift came in art when I started looking at details and slowing down a lot, not thinking I was going to die before I had seen the next painting in a gallery somewhere other than the one I was now in. It was not the same explosion, but it was different and good too. You need to go with the shift: might as well, you have no choice, really. I too decided to take up the technical side, and became a painter. So know I know more, and can see better, and I can't believe I missed so much. But would I be 16 again and standing in front of Leonardo's "Virgin on the Rocks" for the first time? -- I would give anything for that, and I would be lying if I said something else. It just doesn't work that way.
yours, Peter T.