The theme of this article focuses on aesthetic, or purely formalist art vs. metaphysical, or art with meaning. “There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.” Beginning with the question of truth and beauty, even early religious art depicting realistically rendered figures in a space is viewed as more humanist then religious. Newman goes… Continue reading Commentary on Metaphysical Feelings in Modern Art
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Commentary on Depth Charge (Excerpt from The Ab-Ex Effect)
The article that interested me the most in the ArtForum collection was Depth Charge with Terry Winters and John Elerfield. It’s curious to me the idea of combining “the decorative flatness of modernist painting and something messier and more volumetric.” I’m intrigued by the sense of depth in De Kooning’s work – the push and… Continue reading Commentary on Depth Charge (Excerpt from The Ab-Ex Effect)
Commentary on Provisional Painting Part 2: To Rest Lightly On Earth
The idea of “painting is impossible” is a heavy statement, and yet it yields some truth to me. Ever since the invention of photography, painting shifted its intention from simply reproducing image, to an actual construction of something from nothing. In the beginning of the article, the reference to Jean Paul Sartre’s work Being and… Continue reading Commentary on Provisional Painting Part 2: To Rest Lightly On Earth
Indigo Sky Community Gallery Staff
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Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 5: Pure Abstraction
Pathos Pure Abstraction is slightly less broad then the single word Abstraction, and yet it encompasses many levels of visual constructs through surface, materials, and process. Chapter 5 in Painting Today, coins this term for abstract work that explores the physical tendencies of paint along with a less expected idea, one which critics… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 5: Pure Abstraction
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Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 3: Neo-Expressionism
Appropriation Neo-Expressionism is known for it’s “exaggeration, heightened colors, myth and personal imagery.” This period of time throughout the 80’s in painting, rose heavy debate and many important questions. These artists were following a time when absolute abstraction, the all-over principle of Jackson Pollock, and the idea that art is an object that… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 3: Neo-Expressionism
JOSHUA NEUSTEIN
JOSHUA NEUSTEIN 2/11/13 UNTITLED article posted by lilly wei on http://www.artinamericamagazine.com NEW YORK First, you saw—or sort of saw—Big Little Dollhouse (2010), an arrangement of overlaid geometric shapes that suggest painting in process. Consisting of acrylic residue imprinted on huge polyurethane sheets (filling most of the north wall of the entrance space), the piece appears to… Continue reading JOSHUA NEUSTEIN
Abstract Painting: The New Casualists
ABSTRACT PAINTING: The New Casualists article posted by Sharon L. Butler on http://www.brooklynrail.org The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive maelstrom of 20th century art, those philosophies became dogmas, and the dogmas outright manifestos. In the new century,… Continue reading Abstract Painting: The New Casualists
2013: A Blank Canvas
2013: A blank canvas December 31, 2012 article posted by: Sharon Butler on http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com From the press release: Pocket Utopia is pleased to present “Precisionist Casual,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Sharon Butler. The exhibition will feature Butler’s stapled, washed canvases, unstretched yet arranged on stretchers. to read the rest of the article… Continue reading 2013: A Blank Canvas
Kalel R. Cloonan 