What If Art Is The Last Honest Topic Left

We ask when conversation became so restricted that AI, politics, and even community life feel unsafe to mention. We land on art as common ground and hear how a Cleveland painter uses landscape and acrylic technique to connect people across generations.

Much frustration with how many topics feel off limits and why AI and politics can shut down dialogue introducing a Cleveland-based artist and community collaborator and abstract expressionism and pushing landscapes to new limits using lonely trees and natural elements as visual language respect for watercolor and oil painters as different craft. 

The problem with oil paint drying time and color balance switching to acrylics for faster layering, texture, and pouring art as a bridge that connects generations worldwide

Transcript

A Cleveland Artist Introduces His Work\n

Respect For Different Art Mediums\n

Why He Switched To Acrylics\n

Art As A Bridge Across Generations

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When did this all happen? When did we get all caught up on what we can talk about and what we can't talk about? You know, we can't talk about AI technology because it's overwhelming everybody and everybody's nervous and everybody's concerned and everybody has problems. We can't talk about politics because that gets you into a whole mess of a maze of nightmares because everybody has their own opinions. We can't talk about the communities and what's happening there because everybody, you know, there's just a lot of craziness, confusion, and nonsense going on. I'm a local artist from Cleveland and I work with magnificent people, promoters, places, locations, communities, and I love working with people. And I have the ability to create art with skills, talents, and God-given gifts. And I master the abstract expressionism, and I take landscape to unbelievable limits. And that's what I do with landscapes. And I love to use these lonely trees in the in the settings because not all the trees have leaves on them and a bouquet of flower arrangements and so forth, and landscapes and bushes and and so forth. So why have we come to a point where we can't talk about anything? You know, we have to be so careful with our words, we have to be so uh cognitive of every sentence we say, every word that comes out of our mouth. And when it comes to art and artwork and creations and designs, there's a lot of people that do some wonderful work, that do some wonderful things. And whether in my case, I got to stay with paintings because that's the world I live in. So if you're a watercolor person that designs watercolors, you're doing a fantastic job because that's something that I don't play with much. I used to play with it when I was younger, but not much now. When it comes to oil, it's amazing what you can do with oil paints. And I've I started that early on in my career. I've been doing this for 18 years, and I started that early on doing oil. But the problem was I couldn't take the drying process. It was driving me nuts, and my color balancing was throwing me off a little bit. But I got I painted a number of them, and then I finally turned to acrylic painting and acrylic paints and found out that there's unbelievable levels of acrylic paint: the thick, the thin, the liquid, the pouring, the pores, the mechs, the the color balancing, the color mixing. And you can do so much with texture and layering and and just unbelievable things. So the world is changing by the day, and we have to search out for subjects and topics that we can talk about. And art seems to be a hot topic. And art is always it it brings generations together and allows us to expand and allows us to reach people from around the world.