Baren Digest Wednesday, 26 March 2003 Volume 22 : Number 2172 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jean Womack" Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:41:49 -0800 Subject: [Baren 21133] Re: Baren Digest V22 #2171 Anyway, we don't have to lump all posters into a Soviet genesis. We don't have to apologize for our own poster art. American posters have an illustrious history, though they were not used for propaganda to the extent the art in the Soviet Union was. Or even Cuba, for that matter. We have plenty of good poster art right here in the USA. When I was a little kid in New Jersey, we made posters in school for toothbrushing. Everyone had to make a poster. That was part of education for democracy. I refuse to be scared away from making posters. Jean Womack ------------------------------ From: "Jean Womack" Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:48:03 -0800 Subject: [Baren 21134] Re: Baren Digest V22 #2171 People have always gone after my art work and tried to take art away from me. First it was that I was supposed to paint only abstracts and not paint anything realistic because that was just illustration not real art. The dictatorship of the abstract. My theory being that it was cold war time and the government didn't want any graven images leaving the country. No information was to leave. Then they sent me to a college where there weren't any studio classes. Then they called me a dilletante. Finally they took off the kid gloves and tried to say that I was making illegal drugs because I had nitric acid in the house. I screamed bloody murder. I demanded an apology. They want to take my etching away from me, my printmaking. They can't have that and they can't have the posters, either. Sorry, I guess I am souinding weird again. Hang in there, Gillyn. You'll get your web site up and running one of these days. Jean ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V22 #2172 *****************************