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Saul Steinberg celebrated the home as a ‘cocoon for creativity’
- trimbo 7y agoMonet disagrees. https://www.cmonetgallery.com/en-plein-air-painting.aspx https://www.cmonetgallery.com/en-plein-air-painting.aspx
- ruminasean 7y agoI always felt the same, until I was locked into it for 30 days straight....
- AKrumbach 7y agoor as seen on Twitter[1]: "Every January: One month hiatus from work, and I could finally publish my draft of the next bestselling novel April 2020: Today I alphabetized the jelly beans" 1: not a reference to any specific tweet, just the general tendency of people to speak about grand plans and then never execute on them.
- copperx 7y agoI think it has something to do with the background anxiety. Even if you're not particularly scared of the virus because you've been practicing impeccable social distancing and you still have a job, the uncertainty of it all can completely kill flow. And if you have a partner or kids, household management is disruptive even in the most organized families. I've been blaming myself for the drop in my productivity and thinking something is wrong with me. It just realized that I must be kind to myself during these times.
- ruminasean 7y agoBackground anxiety is a perfect way to describe it, in fact that's what I'm going to say from now on, thanks.
- oarabbus_ 7y agoSo it was prescient to call it a "cocoon".
- tomcam 7y agoWorth a look if you want something uplifting. His work was simultaneously fun, childlike, insightful, insanely original, hilarious, timeless, and fresh. Few artists have been so purely enjoyable IMO.
- zarkov99 7y agoBefore Netflix, Facebook, Twitter and cable TV it probably was.
- new2628 7y agoI don't access any of these, but still it isn't very productive :) It is relaxing though, and the sky seems bluer.
- dpau 7y agoSaul elevated cartoons to Art without sacrificing wit or humor.. Archive.org throught their NEL has some of his works, among them perhaps my favorite: The Labyrinth https://archive.org/details/steinberg0000unse https://archive.org/details/steinberg0000unse