a: haha, thats somebody who realized he cant paint, then he figured out he couldnt paint faces and smeared over it and threw it in the garbage how much is it worth? nowhereman: worth or sold for? a: lovely suicide pastel color scheme
I like the guts of this artist to totally change from what she'd been doing before. I like some of the moves here (there's a nice painting in the show with multiple faces). However, I feel like these are the beginnings of something, rather than a resolved body of work. Stylistically speaking, the relationship to an expressionist portraiture mode needs to be honed, IMO. The palette could be sharpened to feel less familiar, less early 20th century .
These paintings are rather gorgeous..I'm seeing Chris Johansen type people, with A little of Emil Nolde's crowds, maybe even some Chagal and Dogen, Picabia, bit of Polke. They feel awful good going down though, even if they're lacking in a certain now-ness.
I guess the new painting trend is to go crazy painting off faces. There is nothing in this one or the last one that I find interesting. Painting is so dead.
Self Effacement is an obvious conclusion when one sees a face that has been effaced. This is a strategy used against emporer god kings in Assyria, the US against Saddam, and most recently in the iconoclasm by terrorists against subway posters on the G line. Fortunately print technology has advanced way past the Guttenberg press and images are now as ubiquitous as words. A language, I dare say.
Ann Coulter is on a rampage, and though I despise her bombastic and simple minded rhetoric, i sympathize with the ideological warfare. I am reminded of the movie "Bob Roberts" in which the liberal tactics of folk music and grass roots organizing are co-opted by a Conservative Republican candidate.
In the same way paintings of this sort seem liberal, Democratic, the sort of painting made by a Volvo driving soccer mom. and yet one might well ask, is it?
Does the devil wear Prada or Peruvian Alpacca knitwear? Wheat grass or single malt scotch? Both?
Self-effacement is usually practiced by poeple sitting on a buttload of money. As are manners.It's a device to avoid getting jacked.
People with no money must employ lots of "FACE".
In the case of my family, we are very self-effacing yet we have no money. This suggests we once did, but lost it, as I have always suspected. Just a little more inbreeding with brutal eastern europeans, and we will have our "FACE" back. Not a moment too soon.
I think my family must've done somethin' really bad back in biblical times or maybe the middle ages.
In my tribe, direct eye contact is a sign of agression and can lead to bloodshed.
One of my nominal bosses pounded the desk and yelled today because another one of my bosses was late coming in. Highly entertaining.
No War but the Class War.
High Status Behavior
According to Diggles, an actor intending to convey that he or she is of high status should do the following:
Maintain strong direct eye contact. Take up physical and vocal space. Invade other people’s space. Touch them. Stand tall, straight, head up. Keep yourself physically higher up than the other person. Taller. Keep your head still while talking. Maintain verbal dominance. Use “uh” to hold the stage. Posture-wise, use strong contrasts in angle: hands on hips, leg up on stool, etc.
"Although women said they were attracted to the men who tested high for testosterone, an important factor in their attraction to men for a long-term relationship was their perception of a man's affinity for children, even after accounting for their perceptions of men's general kindness.
something new comes about usually when the working focus isn't trying to be new; it's trying to make something good - it applies to everything. I really like to hand the 'fresh off the bueys bandwagon' and 'grade school conceptualists' copies of a science textbook when they argue about trivial things such as 'painting is dead'. it doesnt fucking matter. make it and make it good.
I am often frustrated that when someone executes a painting with technical skill people assume that the artist lacks the imagination to go 'beyond skill.' Yet when a painting is executed in a crude or contemptuous manner it is assumed that the artist has somehow transcended the need to make things well. 'Ah the complexity of thought and concern with contemporary things and stuff etc!' Bollocks.
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i really like the way it looks like an artist who hates what she painted and is going over it. can't decide what to do. abstract or figurative
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ReplyDeleteActual- like it. Um, doesn't, isn't, there... a few words?
ReplyDelete"When painting paints in the shadow of the nature of [a] thing, the negation, without the full swirl or negation, is it good?
this is my coffee conversation just to share...
ReplyDeletea: haha, thats somebody who realized he cant paint, then he figured out he couldnt paint faces and smeared over it and threw it in the garbage
how much is it worth?
nowhereman: worth or sold for?
a: lovely suicide pastel color scheme
Two self-effacing portraits in a roll. Sweet!
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ReplyDeleteI like the guts of this artist to totally change from what she'd been doing before. I like some of the moves here (there's a nice painting in the show with multiple faces). However, I feel like these are the beginnings of something, rather than a resolved body of work. Stylistically speaking, the relationship to an expressionist portraiture mode needs to be honed, IMO. The palette could be sharpened to feel less familiar, less early 20th century .
ReplyDeletei kinda like them. haven't seen the show yet, so the thinness might be offputting in person... not sure. i think this is the best one.
ReplyDeletelate van dongen territory but that cool
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oops! bb said illustration. group suicide time.
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ReplyDeleteThese paintings are rather gorgeous..I'm seeing Chris Johansen type people, with A little of Emil Nolde's crowds, maybe even some Chagal and Dogen, Picabia, bit of Polke. They feel awful good going down though, even if they're lacking in a certain now-ness.
ReplyDeletenow-ness is the word i was thinking.
ReplyDeleteyou kind of had to be there for these. go see the show.
ReplyDeleteI guess the new painting trend is to go crazy painting off faces. There is nothing in this one or the last one that I find interesting. Painting is so dead.
ReplyDeletePainting is the least dead art medium. you can express any idea: content, style, theory, and the medium never gets in the way.
ReplyDeleteSelf Effacement is an obvious conclusion when one sees a face that has been effaced. This is a strategy used against emporer god kings in Assyria, the US against Saddam, and most recently in the iconoclasm by terrorists against subway posters on the G line. Fortunately print technology has advanced way past the Guttenberg press and images are now as ubiquitous as words. A language, I dare say.
ReplyDeleteAnn Coulter is on a rampage, and though I despise her bombastic and simple minded rhetoric, i sympathize with the ideological warfare. I am reminded of the movie "Bob Roberts" in which the liberal tactics of folk music and grass roots organizing are co-opted by a Conservative Republican candidate.
In the same way paintings of this sort seem liberal, Democratic, the sort of painting made by a Volvo driving soccer mom. and yet one might well ask, is it?
Does the devil wear Prada or Peruvian Alpacca knitwear? Wheat grass or single malt scotch? Both?
Self-effacement is usually practiced by poeple sitting on a buttload of money. As are manners.It's a device to avoid getting jacked.
ReplyDeletePeople with no money must employ lots of "FACE".
In the case of my family, we are very self-effacing yet we have no money. This suggests we once did, but lost it, as I have always suspected. Just a little more inbreeding with brutal eastern europeans, and we will have our "FACE" back. Not a moment too soon.
I think my family must've done somethin' really bad back in biblical times or maybe the middle ages.
ReplyDeleteIn my tribe, direct eye contact is a sign of agression and can lead to bloodshed.
One of my nominal bosses pounded the desk and yelled today because another one of my bosses was late coming in. Highly entertaining.
No War but the Class War.
High Status Behavior
According to Diggles, an actor intending to convey that he or she is of high status should do the following:
Maintain strong direct eye contact.
Take up physical and vocal space.
Invade other people’s space. Touch them.
Stand tall, straight, head up.
Keep yourself physically higher up than the other person. Taller.
Keep your head still while talking.
Maintain verbal dominance. Use “uh” to hold the stage.
Posture-wise, use strong contrasts in angle: hands on hips, leg up on stool, etc.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/status-queues-and-the-presentation-of-you.html
"Although women said they were attracted to the men who tested high for testosterone, an important factor in their attraction to men for a long-term relationship was their perception of a man's affinity for children, even after accounting for their perceptions of men's general kindness.
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1457
something new comes about usually when the working focus isn't trying to be new; it's trying to make something good - it applies to everything. I really like to hand the 'fresh off the bueys bandwagon' and 'grade school conceptualists' copies of a science textbook when they argue about trivial things such as 'painting is dead'. it doesnt fucking matter. make it and make it good.
ReplyDeleteI am often frustrated that when someone executes a painting with technical skill people assume that the artist lacks the imagination to go 'beyond skill.' Yet when a painting is executed in a crude or contemptuous manner it is assumed that the artist has somehow transcended the need to make things well.
ReplyDelete'Ah the complexity of thought and concern with contemporary things and stuff etc!'
Bollocks.
Jackie G rulz!
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