Judgement and Evaluation

Time to post again! welcome to the blog page. Do keep in mind that all of these plates are precious and rare. Some are not beautiful, many are damaged. I do not judge this art. Judgement and evaluation is left to those who know art. This is a report of  art work that has been collected and printed. This is a public access to The Collection of Indigenous American Art. All of my on line files are available by entering my name or email address into Google search, Larry McCarty   lmccarty.fa@gmail.com

Respect Art

Welcome to this weeks blog post. I would like to point out here once again that there are many people that are of the opinion that primitive art forms are the source of the modern and postmodern periods in art. I am constantly astounded by the images that appear when I am printing. If one did not know that the art is very old, he or she might think that it is the work of a contemporary artist. I try to select a group each week that will please a general audience and I might say here that it is obvious that the academy's and guilds of the American Indian Nations had the highest standards and respect for the art that they created.

The stone speaks.

If you look over past post of this blog you will probably notice that there are some basic shapes that repeat from week to week. This is because the fossils used as plate material are naturally somewhat similar. The main point to understand is that the craftsman had to use the surface pretty much as is, there were no tools  to render a  totally flat surface with out a great deal of work. I really don't think that this limitation was a consideration that the artist thought about period. The natural shape of the stone was a part of the magic of the creative process of that particular work. This is to say that the artist studied the stone as a first step in the process and was inspired as to how the work should evolve.