Past Echoes The chapter opens up with a direct and forward discussion about our current cultural portrayal of death, and how this is “endlessly in the media but in real life is hidden away in hospices and nursing homes…” One of the roles of art has always been to bring discussion and understanding of death,… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 10: Death and Life
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Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 8: Painting Space
Experience of Space The chapter opens up with an important distinction between place and space: “place is where we stand at a particular moment in time, space is everything else.” Throughout the history of painting, creating spacial illusion was key to developing a believable ‘window to the world’ effect. In contemporary painting, exploration of spacial… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 8: Painting Space
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction
Finding Identity Reading Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction in Painting Today was akin to a metaphysical trip through my own mind. I related to many of the key concepts discussed behind abstraction and its keen ability to retain “the integrity of the human hand, and thus the integrity of the human identity.” Unlike in Chapter 5,… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction
Commentary on DER LIEBE GOTT STECKT IM DETAIL: Reading Twombly
“The wall metaphor, the dirty graffiti, the emphasis on tactility, the sparse and additive configuration of the works…” Twombly’s work takes on a new concept of ‘human scale’ in which the markmaking more closely immitates the mark of an average person, even within the context of a larger space. “Twombly…exemplifies the importance of the little.”… Continue reading Commentary on DER LIEBE GOTT STECKT IM DETAIL: Reading Twombly
Commentary on Metaphysical Feelings in Modern Art
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
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
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