The Theory of Art [ Formerly: Auntie Joan ]

i had been looking all over the place awhile ago for a site with some of my Auntie Joanie's Paintings,
and it seemed, at that time, that they'd all disappeared...
And then i finally remembered the name of The Gallery that she displayed her work at and found that...!
But-- It didn't list her as a member...!!!
But---i did find a link to another artist that was affiliated with The Art Stall,
and so i used her format, and simply inserted 'glenn' where 'Rawlings' had been...
Curiously; The correct address for for jglenn...
But Amazingly, it found the site anyway...!!!
( why is it that it never works that hard when i'm really looking for something...!!! )
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Her site is: Auntie Joan's Paintings

fig.1 Baskets of Flowers, Without a Mysterious Shadow...

She's a Fine Artist & Excellent Draftsperson...
But i just wish she's add a little more 'mystery' to her paintings...???
A mysterious shadow falling across the pots of flowers,
A ghostly face peering out from the filthy window of an old barn,
A limbless boy floating by on an innertube by the tugboats,
A firery plane falling out of the sky behind the church,
A Radically Political Button on the blouse of her grandchild(?),
A long extinct bug on the fruit,
One of the eggs falling off the table, with a cat just beneath it!
A Hobo's feet sticking out from under the old truck...!
Wouldn't that make them more 'Engaging...' ( ??? )
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Maybe she'll be famous someday anyways...!
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René Magritte; In order to more fundimentally understand & advance his own ability to contrive new paintings, composed a listing of all the ways that objects within a painting may interact with one another...
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His was a rather short list; So i've created my own listing of ways that objects may be transformed & made to confront the other objects & ideas within a confined illustrative area.
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Composition Suggestions

1. Assign the Attributes of A to B
2. Overlap Incongruent Elements
3. Add a Mysterious/Ambiguous/Contradictory Element
4. Hide an Element
5. Discard a Necessary Element
6. Overstate the Logical Conclusion
7. Preproduce Reality / State the Obvious
8. Stylize Texture
9. Reverse Rolls
10. Illustrate a Misconception
11. Requantify Attributes
12. Prove The Anti-Thesis
13. Violate a Taboo with Innocence
14. Force Innocence into The Roll of a Taboo
15. Violate The Illustrations Parameters
16. Demonstrate Commonalities
17. Highlight Hidden Details
18. Combine Opposites
19. Rework 'x' Sloppily: Then Repair 'x'
20. Mix Metaphores
21. Force Things to Fit
22. Redefine Axioms
23. Refute Necessary Details
24. Remove Some/All Supporting Structures
25. Add Exteraneous Features
26. SubDivide The Totality
27. Add Redundancy
28. Contradict the Message
29. Refute Beauty
30. Refute Ugliness
31. Make Something Innocent; Terrifying
32. Make Something Terrifying; Innocent
33. Confuse People
34. Redefine Functionality/Usage
35. Amplify Silence
36. Include a Trigger
37. Fight Your Desire to Please The Viewer
38. ( ? )

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More Theory of Art:

What Goes On in A Picture...???

1. Sleep / Sit / Stand / Lounge Around
2. Watch Something / Stare at Viewer
3. Engage in Ritual
4. Pass Through The Threshhold
5. Second Figure Juxtaposed
6. Picking Up Something / Eating
7. Comtemplating Something
8. Twist / Contort
9. Get Things All Wrong
10. Master / Slave / Beast
11. Elements: Cherub / Appliances / Clouds / Moon / Books / Papers / Shopping List / Small Utencils / Chair / Sofa / Table / Bed / Animals / Plants / Bowl / Window / Flies / Monsters / Food / Rocks / Ghost / Light / Doorway
12. Doing x in a y Environment
13. z's Perspective
14. Struggling with x
15. Interacting with a Machine / Confusion
16. Laying in a Heap / Injured / Dead
17. People as Things