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abstraction, reviews
Meaning in Art
Robert C. Morgan has a nice piece in this month’s Brooklyn Rail, in which he reviews Thomas Nozkowski’s recent show at Pace Wildenstein and discusses the state of current abstract painting.
In recent years, meaning in art is rarely discussed by critics in terms of abstract painting. The implication is that the survival of meaning in […] -
abstraction, artists, video
Amy Sillman Contemporary Salon, clip 3
Amy Sillman Contemporary Salon, clip 3
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abstraction, artist writings, artists, show and tell
after cecille (or my kid can do that)
after cecille / prismacolor / 5″ x 6″
© 2007 gordon fraser. all rights reserved. www.gordonfraserfinearts.comI posted the above drawing to a drawing forum on artreview.com and received a number of replies from the impassioned defense, to the legitimate questioning, to the ridiculous dismissal/panning by the court jester who’s now out rummaging through his kids nursery […]
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abstraction, the masters
But where’s the bicycle?
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53, Oil on canvas, 76 1/2 x 49 in. (194.3 x 124.5 cm)
© 2000 Willem de Kooning Revocable Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
www.whitney.org
I’ve been thinking about Woman and Bicycle by Willem De Kooning for the past couple of days know, specifically about abstract painting prodding us as […] -
abstraction
webs of influence
03.18.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsPosted by leonardo bonanni on his blog hyperexperience
Alfred H Barr Jr’s book cover for Cubism and Abstract Art depicts the evolution of modernism through an evolutionary tree, using red text to separate influences external to the art world.
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Texts and Sources, abstraction, artist writings
Controverisal Discussions of Abstraction
TEXTE ZUR KUNST
March 2008 / Issue No. 69
In cooperation with Sven Lütticken
“ABSTRACTION”
http://www.textezurkunst.deInvestigating “Abstraction” both as visible form and as hidden social structure, both in artistic practices and in the increasingly “culturalized” economy in general, the contributions gathered in this issue attempt to go beyond established critical and art-historical parameters by exploring and exploiting — rather […]
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abstraction, reviews
The Indecisive Image or just plain tired of documentation
A detail from Marco Breuer’s Untitled (C-498), 2004, made with scratched chromogenic paper.
COURTESY VON LINTEL GALLERY, NEW YORK
In pictures of ethereal specks and kaleidoscopic explosions of color, photographers are embracing abstraction
by Eric Bryant (excerpt from artnewsonline.com)
In Marco Breuer’s recent photographs, black specks dance across a white surface, leaving faint trails that mark the passage of […] -
abstraction, exhibitions, reviews
Sincere and Self-possessed Abstraction
Karrig
James Brooks
1956
oil on canvas
Walker Art Center. www.walkerart.org
According to John Goodrich in Thursday’s New York Sun…
By itself, sincerity is insufficient to make a great work of art. Still, the Abstract Expressionists got plenty of mileage out of it, with soul-baring, chest-thumping canvases that rank among the greatest achievements of American art. But like everyone else, the […] -
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The Abstract Language
02.23.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAs a human my experience is embodied. I am not a disembodied reason or a brain in a vat. For a more in depth discussion see Lakoff and Johnson’s Philosophy in the Flesh. In other words, Descartes’ idea that “I think, therefore I am” is totally wrong. The language of representation is built on linear […]
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Texts and Sources, abstraction, artist writings, the masters
the origins of the blind swimmer
So a lot of readers have been asking me about the origin of name the blind swimmer. The first part of the answer is pretty straight forward - I used to be a competitive swimmer. Then, I was reading The Writings of Robert Motherwell while I was trying to come up with a name for […]
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