Comments on: Quilting and Art - A survey http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/12/quilting-and-art-a-survey.html Images and writing about my abstract contemporary textile art by Lisa Call. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Linda Cline http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/12/quilting-and-art-a-survey.html#comment-15231 Linda Cline Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:49:51 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/12/quilting-and-art-a-survey.html#comment-15231 I am quite certain that when I tell people "I make quilts" they have absolutely no idea what I mean, because of the association they have with bed quilts. But didn't have enough confidence to until recently to call myself an artist. It would be nice to have a one word accurate description (like "painting" or "sculpture") to describe a new piece. "Piece" seems to generic "textile art piece" seems long and awkward. On my blog, I have described myself as a textile artist who makes quilts, and then in the blog entries have resorted back to calling the actual pieces "quilts". I looked on your website to see what you call what you make: " Lisa Call is an artist working in fiber who creates bold geometric quilts...". It's an easy word to fall back on. Your work is quite wonderful no matter what it is called. I am quite certain that when I tell people “I make quilts” they have absolutely no idea what I mean, because of the association they have with bed quilts. But didn’t have enough confidence to until recently to call myself an artist. It would be nice to have a one word accurate description (like “painting” or “sculpture”) to describe a new piece. “Piece” seems to generic “textile art piece” seems long and awkward. On my blog, I have described myself as a textile artist who makes quilts, and then in the blog entries have resorted back to calling the actual pieces “quilts”. I looked on your website to see what you call what you make: ” Lisa Call is an artist working in fiber who creates bold geometric quilts…”. It’s an easy word to fall back on. Your work is quite wonderful no matter what it is called.

]]> By: Susan (Miss Snips) http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/12/quilting-and-art-a-survey.html#comment-15227 Susan (Miss Snips) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:43:50 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2007/12/quilting-and-art-a-survey.html#comment-15227 Recently I learned something from my husband about ART. He does not make art himself (he is an organizer) but he said to me "When I see something that pleases and amazes my eye, that is ART." This began a bit of discussion between us, because after 35 years of marriage to this person who excelled at putting things in order, but never played with colour or pens or paper or anything like that, I realized that he KNEW what art was, probably better than an artist who struggles to DESCRIBE their own art and try to give it a name. To him, a viewer, a nine patch traditional quilt that amazes and pleases his eye, is as much of an artistic piece as a intrically thread painted wall quilt. He does not need to wonder or think about if the piece has batting or a hanging sleeve behind it -- he doesn't care. It is either art to his eye, or it is art to someone elses eye, just not so pleasing to his... Oh, and he does tell me when I make crap, so I guess his eye is quite reliable to me and to what I create. Recently I learned something from my husband about ART. He does not make art himself (he is an organizer) but he said to me “When I see something that pleases and amazes my eye, that is ART.” This began a bit of discussion between us, because after 35 years of marriage to this person who excelled at putting things in order, but never played with colour or pens or paper or anything like that, I realized that he KNEW what art was, probably better than an artist who struggles to DESCRIBE their own art and try to give it a name. To him, a viewer, a nine patch traditional quilt that amazes and pleases his eye, is as much of an artistic piece as a intrically thread painted wall quilt. He does not need to wonder or think about if the piece has batting or a hanging sleeve behind it — he doesn’t care.
It is either art to his eye, or it is art to someone elses eye, just not so pleasing to his…

Oh, and he does tell me when I make crap, so I guess his eye is quite reliable to me and to what I create.

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