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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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In NYC Color comes in Charts, In DC they Have Fields of it
“Tin Lizzie Green” (1964) by Jules Olitski
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, courtesy American Federation of Arts
In today’s NYT Roberta Smith reviews the second exhibition going on right now dedicated to color, Weightless Color, Floating Free. We have color charts at MOMA and Color Fields at the Smithsonian. Starting in the late 1950s the great American […] -
exhibitions, reviews
Primary Season at the Modern - color colour callure
“Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) No. 2.” by Mike Kelley, 2002
Can anybody say “Wheel of Fortune”…juxtapose some comic illustrations some color chips and throw in the word sex and you’ve got a winner…
Today Karen Rosenberg in New York Times reviews the latest installment at MOMA “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today.” “Color Chart” […] -
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Agnes Martin
From artforum.com
Agnes Martin
PETER BLUM SOHO
99 Wooster Street
January 18–March 15
This brisk tour of Agnes Martin’s career—forty years in twenty drawings—is anchored by On a Clear Day, 1973, a series of prints offering thirty ways to regard the square. The number of horizontal and vertical lines in Martin’s dark, delicate fretwork varies from print to print, creating […] -
artists, daily fix, exhibitions
The Genius of Japanese Lacquer: Masterworks by Shibata Zeshin
SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807–1891) Grasshopper and Flowering Vine (about 1880), hanging scroll; colored lacquers and gold wash on prepared paper. 13 3/8 x 18 in.
In Japan, flowering gourds and grasshoppers are traditional harbingers of fall, and here the autumnal mood is emphasized by an overall brown-and-yellow palette. Zeshin’s keen powers of observation are demonstrated in the […] -
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introversions - 2/9/08 - 3/21/08
introversions: an exhibition of paintings by gordon fraser from LE ARSENAL AV on Vimeo.
Introversions, an exhibition of 10 major new egg tempera and oil paintings and 20 watercolors is representative of Fraser’s recent work, and explores the fusion of asian and western “old master” techniques with his post-Expressionist vision. For the last several years, […]
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