Till i read up on her ,yoko that is, I never knew that she was an artist in her own right and she was an artist long before she met John Lennon.( and I mean, IS an artist ,she prolly released music in 2007 too).My only info so far about Yoko has been what i read about her in wikipedia, and here i have to stop and insisit that starting something like wikipedia was such a good idea...
But having said that,everyone needs to remember that wikipedia is a people edited encyclopedia and therefore is bound to have mistakes or rumors ,sometimes till someone else is intelligent enough to edit them out.but for most part, I AM HAPPY WITH WIKIPEDIA.
Coming back to yoko, looks like Lennon met her while he was still married to his previous wife.Infact , apparently he had come to see her art exhibits while he was still married to his then wife and looks like two years down the line they were together or some such.
Digressing as usual but just had to butt in and say how it is sad when married men somehow manage to have affairs, Married people in general ! I mean, if they are in a miserable marriage(which is a possibility given how people are just so in love with this idea of marriage or are so in need of temporary companionship that they choose to marry any odd person whom they are not that into but will still marry just for the selfish reason that for a temporary time they don't want to be lonely,hmmm-very sad!-I always have to add my social commentary everywhere,no?..gosh !).
So yeah , anyways ,coming back to Yoko, looks like, in that exhibiton of her art work, she had this wall full of nails and each person who visited the art exhibition was invited to nail down one nail into that wall of nails with a hammer.Very interesting concept..Looks like I might like her works of art...Must check more of them out, including her music.
It is a pity that people only think of her as this person who married Lennon.I mean,given the fact that she is an artist in her own right,she has more to her than just being lennon's wife or lover.which i never knew about till i looked her up on wikipedia.
Speaking of unique art let us talk about Basquiat.
Looks like he has this habit of labelling stuff in his paintings.I had a look at his paintings after watching a film about him.You know what? when i sketch, especially with ink , i tend to label stuff too....
way back when i was 12, i made a funny cartoonish sketch of my mom and labelled all the body parts with funny captions and commentary..I stuck it inside the cover of my red diary..I think ( i hope) that piece of sketch is still there at my parents.
All these artists,, they are all disturbed or messed up in some ways right? is that what causes the heightened sense of perception ?prolly..
Eventually they are looking to sell this high art to make a living , right?
I am working on novels and books which will be ready in a couple of years, I am also working on a cookery show project which will be presentable in another couple of years, right?
Eventually, it all comes from exposing myself to a lot of people, many of them not so good, and that kinda makes me aware of the pain on the surface of this earth, the twistedness and what not and that is what gives me material for my stories..
well,,if i only get exposed to good, would I still write stories?.. the twistedness is what is gonna help me write..
it is almost like being a physician. I depend on sick people to make my living, but that doesn't necessarily mean that i want people to get sick...Ya know..
So yeah, what i was trying to get at is,In my opinion, artists(real ones-not the fake mediocre ones) , they are blessed or rather cursed by a heightened perception of things around them that kinda makes them create the art they create...but then, eventually,that doesn't make them superior coz eventually at the end of it all, they still depend on acceptance or recognition from the not so talented masses to make their living..So it is eventually the not so talented man that is paying for the talented lot...what an irony !
