An artist needs to define themselves, what do they believe in what do they stand for, what do they want to say. I do believe that most artists will scream for their liberty, scream for their freedom, scream for their voice to be heard. But how does one find themselves and what they want to scream for?
Christine's Journal
Sometimes artists have muses, I am no exception. Muses are often their source of inspiration. Muses give the artist a sense of passion about something. My muses are words – and the concepts they conjure up for me. Words never cease to inspire me which is why I call myself a conceptual artist and why I write a blog and about beautiful moments in the day.
Blog: Art’s Oxymoron
Posted on May 14 2018
Blog: How long does it take you to paint a work of art
Posted on May 10 2018
I frequently get the question how long did it take you to create that work. My standard answer is I started it in kindergarten and just finished it today. The person asking looks and me with my very grey hair questioningly. How does one calculate the time it takes to paint a picture – a life time is a long time.
Blog: Valuing Art
Posted on May 09 2018
Blog: The Walk
Posted on April 24 2018
40x60 I have been working on this piece for about 4 weeks off and on. Kept looking at it - thinking thinking actually over thinking the work. Started to fix it - what a mistake - I always know it's a mistake to go into a piece once it has remained on my walls for some time and I have done nothing to it. I should have said - it is done. But I didn't - and now it no longer exists it is under lots of yellow. grrrrrr. Anyone ever do that? That was a huge canvas - 40x60. GrrrrInterested in the original artwork or a print? Contact Christine for more information. © Christine Alfery, Lac du Flambeau WI. Must obtain written permission for use.
Blog: Personal Self and Values vs. Social Approval
Posted on April 23 2018
Blog: What happens to “art” when it is part of a social contract?
Posted on April 17 2018
All this is a personal enterprise – it is real, it speaks to today and our need to rethink individuality in the arts. Our need to value art not for it’s social commentary, or historical documentation but for its stubbornness to still scream out for the individual to speak. The individual is not created through a social collective.
Blog: The Marble Game
Posted on April 16 2018
Blog: Follow your Bliss
Posted on April 12 2018
Blog: Childhood Magic
Posted on April 12 2018
When people ask me how do I come up with my ideas in my work, I describe to them the feeling I get when I stand before a large body of water, I am so small, and tell them that the ideas come from the connection between me and this vastness. I paint possibilities. I paint with as much childlike freedom as I can gather as an adult, encumbered in an adult world. I think – how can I think differently from what is out there and already been done, how can I think like myself, how can I think like the freedom of a child, unencumbered, playing in the mud or a sandbox or going to the magical place like a circus where impossible things happen.
Blog: Freedom through Christ
Posted on April 03 2018
Blog: Why I never memorized my multiplication tables in 4th grade
Posted on April 02 2018
Blog: Artists as creators, creatives in the circle of life
Posted on March 28 2018
The concept of artist has changed. When one thinks of artist one frequently thinks of the masters and skilled craftsmen applying their acquired techniques perfectly to whatever it is they are producing. The concepts of creator or creative, which is the one I personally like, has taken up the empty space that the notion of “artist” once held.
Blog: The Wind
Posted on March 26 2018
Blog: Watch an Interview with Christine About “The Journey”
Posted on March 23 2018
Blog: Trends and the Individual Self
Posted on March 22 2018
Blog: The Little Boy in a Green Shirt
Posted on March 19 2018
I watched a little boy in a green shirt run as fast as he could to the gate that opened to the board walk. Running down the boardwalk the little green shirt went and as soon as the feet of the little boy could go hit the sand the arms of the little green shirt stretched out and the little boy began to twirl in circles running as he twirled. How long has it been since I have felt that free?
A Nice Abstract Feel To It
Posted on March 07 2018
Artists frequently ask themselves, "what makes an artwork good? Why did that painting win a prize and mine didn't?" Because I find it very challenging to compete internationally with my work, and because I find it much more rewarding that trying to find a gallery who will handle my work and be a good match for the both of us, I find I ask myself these two questions often.