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Painting a Still Life

2013 September 10
by Mike Vial

While enjoying Impressionist paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, a placard caught my eye:

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The stress of painting a live model, a tension of fear that you will miss the perspective vs the comfort of a still life…this made me wonder about songwriting.

I pondered: What is the comparable still life of songwriting? And what is the similarity of painting a model?

The process of songwriting might be both.

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