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Deciding Who Your Art is For
Jan. 20th, 2011 01:08 pmI've been doing a lot of book browsing and Web browsing, searching for information about blind people who create art. This is part of
my 2011 resolution to add more art to my life
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/622032.html .
So far, I have come up with four blind artists:
John Bramblitt http://www.bramblitt.net/ ,
Lisa Fittipaldi, author of _A Brush with Darkness_ http://www.lisafittipaldi.com/ ,
Gary Sergeant (an artist from England), and
Esref Armagan http://www.esrefarmagan.blogspot.com/ .
This last artist is probably the most video-recorded and written-about, as he is the main subject of many mainstream articles which have appeared in The New York Times, numerous science magazines and journals, and many videos which can be found on the Internet,such as the following titled
"Extraordinary People: The Artist with No Eyes"
http://www.armagan.com/paintings.asp .
All of these blind artists are painters, which I initially found kind of confusing. It was not that I couldn't figure out how they could develop techniques for creating images with paint on canvas, because in my experience a blind person who really wants to do something can usually figure out a way to do it. What confused me was how the art these blind artists produced could later be appreciated by other blind people, or even by the blind artists themselves after the paint had dried.
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my 2011 resolution to add more art to my life
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/622032.html .
So far, I have come up with four blind artists:
John Bramblitt http://www.bramblitt.net/ ,
Lisa Fittipaldi, author of _A Brush with Darkness_ http://www.lisafittipaldi.com/ ,
Gary Sergeant (an artist from England), and
Esref Armagan http://www.esrefarmagan.blogspot.com/ .
This last artist is probably the most video-recorded and written-about, as he is the main subject of many mainstream articles which have appeared in The New York Times, numerous science magazines and journals, and many videos which can be found on the Internet,such as the following titled
"Extraordinary People: The Artist with No Eyes"
http://www.armagan.com/paintings.asp .
All of these blind artists are painters, which I initially found kind of confusing. It was not that I couldn't figure out how they could develop techniques for creating images with paint on canvas, because in my experience a blind person who really wants to do something can usually figure out a way to do it. What confused me was how the art these blind artists produced could later be appreciated by other blind people, or even by the blind artists themselves after the paint had dried.
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