Saul Steinberg celebrated the home as a ‘cocoon for creativity’

https://ny.curbed.com/2020/4/9/21200169/saul-steinberg-cartoonist-virtual-exhibit-pace-interiors

by prismatic • 6 years ago

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trimbo• 6 years ago

Monet disagrees.

https://www.cmonetgallery.com/en-plein-air-painting.aspx

ruminasean2• 6 years ago

I always felt the same, until I was locked into it for 30 days straight....

AKrumbach• 6 years ago

or as seen on Twitter[1]: "Every January: One month hiatus from work, and I could finally publish my draft of the next bestselling novel

April 2020: Today I alphabetized the jelly beans"

1: not a reference to any specific tweet, just the general tendency of people to speak about grand plans and then never execute on them.

copperx• 6 years ago

I think it has something to do with the background anxiety. Even if you're not particularly scared of the virus because you've been practicing impeccable social distancing and you still have a job, the uncertainty of it all can completely kill flow. And if you have a partner or kids, household management is disruptive even in the most organized families.

I've been blaming myself for the drop in my productivity and thinking something is wrong with me. It just realized that I must be kind to myself during these times.

oarabbus_• 6 years ago

So it was prescient to call it a "cocoon".

tomcam• 6 years ago

Worth a look if you want something uplifting. His work was simultaneously fun, childlike, insightful, insanely original, hilarious, timeless, and fresh. Few artists have been so purely enjoyable IMO.

zarkov99• 6 years ago

Before Netflix, Facebook, Twitter and cable TV it probably was.

new2628• 6 years ago

I don't access any of these, but still it isn't very productive :) It is relaxing though, and the sky seems bluer.

dpau• 6 years ago

Saul elevated cartoons to Art without sacrificing wit or humor.. Archive.org throught their NEL has some of his works, among them perhaps my favorite:

The Labyrinth https://archive.org/details/steinberg0000unse

Saul Steinberg celebrated the home as a ‘cocoon for creativity’

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