Cooky Blaha said... is the rest of the show as much of a snoozefest as this?????
I would check out the rest of the work at the gallery or jpeg it at www.i-20.com/. I don't think her work is a 'snoozefest' at all unless it's being viewed by a jaded person, which I'm not assuming you are, but hey, we all get jaded. Even imaginative artists. I see a lot of spirituality and inner searching going on in this work. It is very personal as the cat, who is probably hers, being painted so matter-of-factly would suggest. Who would just paint a cat if that animal didn't symbolize something? Everybody paints what they paint for a reason, and like Luc Tuyman's paintings from photos and jpegs show, what looks ordinary actually hides the extraordinary. I'm not saying I love this work by Wong, but it does remind me of the spiritual core of Kahlo's personal work and how her microcosm became our macrocosm.
yeah this was the worst painting of the show(why did painter chose this one?) but the rest was pretty facile as well.this work is so minor compared to kahlo or tuymans
You're right Cooky her work definitely doesn't go as deep as Tuymans or Kahlos. But there is potential there. Possibly the stylization has to deviate from the predictable illustration style she has developed. Something definitely needs to be tweaked to take it out of it's almost comic novel style... It needs to stick out. Maybe get darker in subject matter.
Anybody see the Nick Blinko show at Feigen? That was the most obsessive drawings I've EVER seen in my life. It was kinda scary those drawings. He is an interesting artist though. I'd like to see how he draws when he's on the medication too. Actually he's schizophrenic and did the drawings showing at Feigen off the meds. (It's in the press release.)
This is a sort of atypical image but the show was thoughtful and sensitive.It isn't busy but a lot of old paintings weren't busy either. If Painter put up a Holbein I bet people would rip it.
closeup not saying that just saying our eyes have become accustomed to workaholic obsessiveness. Look at an old Neil Jenney painting after going to galleries and it will look pretty odd.
Accustomed to compulsive and chaotic compositions, and these are tighter and quieter? I don't feel accostomed to anything. Next up...Henry the 8th as portrayed by Brad Pitt in a penguin shirt?
He was sort of behaving with this one which is good because he does artists a disservice otherwise. He comes from a generation where this sort of Norman O. Brownish fixation on abrasive sexual display was thought of as antiauthoritarian and celebratory. I wasn't alive then.
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is the rest of the show as much of a snoozefest as this?????
Martin Maloney painted some nice cats
Cooky Blaha said...
is the rest of the show as much of a snoozefest as this?????
I would check out the rest of the work at the gallery or jpeg it at www.i-20.com/. I don't think her work is a 'snoozefest' at all unless it's being viewed by a jaded person, which I'm not assuming you are, but hey, we all get jaded. Even imaginative artists. I see a lot of spirituality and inner searching going on in this work. It is very personal as the cat, who is probably hers, being painted so matter-of-factly would suggest. Who would just paint a cat if that animal didn't symbolize something? Everybody paints what they paint for a reason, and like Luc Tuyman's paintings from photos and jpegs show, what looks ordinary actually hides the extraordinary. I'm not saying I love this work by Wong, but it does remind me of the spiritual core of Kahlo's personal work and how her microcosm became our macrocosm.
cry me a river dude..
yeah this was the worst painting of the show(why did painter chose this one?) but the rest was pretty facile as well.this work is so minor compared to kahlo or tuymans
You're right Cooky her work definitely doesn't go as deep as Tuymans or Kahlos. But there is potential there. Possibly the stylization has to deviate from the predictable illustration style she has developed. Something definitely needs to be tweaked to take it out of it's almost comic novel style... It needs to stick out. Maybe get darker in subject matter.
Anybody see the Nick Blinko show at Feigen? That was the most obsessive drawings I've EVER seen in my life. It was kinda scary those drawings. He is an interesting artist though. I'd like to see how he draws when he's on the medication too. Actually he's schizophrenic and did the drawings showing at Feigen off the meds. (It's in the press release.)
Charlie weighs in over at artnet.
When I saw the Marat reference with the penguin shirt, I was outta there. Gag.
This is a sort of atypical image but the show was thoughtful and sensitive.It isn't busy but a lot of old paintings weren't busy either. If Painter put up a Holbein I bet people would rip it.
this aint no holbein.
closeup not saying that just saying our eyes have become accustomed to workaholic obsessiveness. Look at an old Neil Jenney painting after going to galleries and it will look pretty odd.
Accustomed to compulsive and chaotic compositions, and these are tighter and quieter? I don't feel accostomed to anything. Next up...Henry the 8th as portrayed by Brad Pitt in a penguin shirt?
He was sort of behaving with this one which is good because he does artists a disservice otherwise. He comes from a generation where this sort of Norman O. Brownish fixation on abrasive sexual display was thought of as antiauthoritarian and celebratory. I wasn't alive then.
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