Thursday Talk

I am writing about last Thursday's talk with Louis and Cable's work. I really liked both.
I have always been interested in the idea of the history behind a piece, because that is what drives what is the end result. Louis told us he was interested in concepts and trying to find the medium that would best fit, which I think is really important. We are here to see what type of medium we like and I don't know if I want to learn a specific medium, because different projects need different mediums.
I also enjoyed Cable's abstraction, and I liked it when he said that he enjoyed abstraction, because then the viewer cannot necessarily judge is this a good cat, or a bad cat. It is the viewers job to create what they may. I was excited to see that he had so much passion. He knew when he got out of college that he would always be a painter. He stayed a painter, even if he didn't like his work, or it was too much or he didn't get it. But he found his nitch and succeeded in what he wanted to do.