From:
Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date:
Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:33:21 -0400
Subject:
Carving from maquettes versus direct carving.
On Jun 25, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Walter S. Arnold wrote:
Quoted text begins.One shop I was working in did some pieces for Noguchi, working strictly
from simple blueprints and carving the items in Belgian Black. They were
subcontracting for a larger shop which had the overall contract, these
were smaller elements to be incorporated in another piece.
End of quote.
I was mulling over this example of the artist's work being done by
other people, and thinking to myself that maybe it worked well for
Noguchi because he (a) planned his pieces out on graph paper anyway,
and (b) his work was often composed of assembled planar pieces with no
surface texture. But then I remembered what may be an even more
unlikely, yet obviously successful, example of transmitting ones ideas.
Some of you may have heard the NPR story a few days ago about a young
man (maybe somebody with a better memory than mine will remember his
name?) who is responsible for some of the most successful and sought
after theme music currently used in a lot of advertisements these day.
His pieces are mostly mood music. He is successful enough that he has a
large, well equipped studio someplace in Manhattan. According to the
interview he has no musical training and can neither play an instrument
nor read and write music. He directs musicians working for him with a
lot of hand waving and "making a fool of myself", as he put it.
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Norman Watts, Ph. D.
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