oh its cute! for once the super washy pastel transmigrating water colours feel less then tragiclly subhurban, or skratch that reverse it - but it still works.
Hillary Harkness Marcel Dzama SOme others I cant remember. Sorry. Maybe its because they dont show at zwirner and Boone.
Hillary Harkness paints better and invests more time in the work. Lots more time.
What is a complex visual language? Because Amy Morken has one, according to the press release.
I notice this a lot. Artsits develop complex visual languages in Grad school, or even junior high - although most of the visual language means the same thing. I drew conan obsessively. No neck, lots of gore.
A complex visual language should be able to express a full range of emotions in a nuanced way.
Otherwise, why make it comlex? Why not make a simple visual language pricks like me can understand?
This is such a good interview/history. I suggest it to people too young to have been there. John Giorno is a historian I would believe. Real deal. KJ sorry you are sum kinda yuppie/neocon...
The hot palette is offset by the abundance of white, and the black and white panda head.
Those trendy images, like deer antlers, etc... have been around for over 500 years, soccer socks excluded.
Something about the palette and the washiness makes it seem more sincere than an Urban Outfitters illustration. I'm not sure why. It's in the subtle differences.
This picture could use some heaver line weights and a little gesso/goache erasure and so on and so forth. Why not? It is allreay arting it up. Might as well go the distance.
Or it could say the same thing using a style that sets itself apart from the fey, the antiheroic, the slacker, and the geek chik.
It could use some more explicit if ambiguous narrative, too.
Drizzly and a dizzily colorful day to wake up to this tangle and fray It can do you no bad, and possibly good Where the 'wiggles and wangles', the 'flowers and flesh' say not the last word.
i feel like it is not a painting best understood thru cognitive processes.
" I love myself; I want you to love me When I feel down; I want you above me I search myself; I want you to find me I forget myself; I want you to remind me
I don't want anybody else When I think about you I touch myself Ooh I don't want anybody else Oh no, oh no, oh no "
Yeah, said it's all right I won't forget All the times I've waited patiently for you And you'll do just what you choose to do And I will be alone again tonight my dear
Verse 2: Yeah, I heard a funny thing Somebody said to me You know that I could be in love with almost everyone I think that people are The greatest fun And I will be alone again tonight my dear
Alright enough with lyrics. This painting won't last more than half a decade. Graphic novels have better chances due to their collectability (?)
Love or no love, my dear. Sorry. We lauded hockney and left poor kitaj to decay in the muck of historic mediocrity Why? Dunno, really, but it might have something having to do with desire-wanting-resistance.
In other words... Don't be so easy baby. Sweetness can only get you so far.
;) ha no - if that is directed at me - but u can walk up to us in chelsea, it is a crapshoot as to what mood i am in. i have a theory about 80's lyrics being contemporary poetry.
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oh its cute! for once the super washy pastel transmigrating water colours feel less then tragiclly subhurban, or skratch that reverse it - but it still works.
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Marcel Dzama
SOme others I cant remember. Sorry. Maybe its because they dont show at zwirner and Boone.
Hillary Harkness paints better and invests more time in the work. Lots more time.
What is a complex visual language? Because Amy Morken has one, according to the press release.
I notice this a lot. Artsits develop complex visual languages in Grad school, or even junior high - although most of the visual language means the same thing. I drew conan obsessively. No neck, lots of gore.
A complex visual language should be able to express a full range of emotions in a nuanced way.
Otherwise, why make it comlex? Why not make a simple visual language pricks like me can understand?
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I could go on.
I was watching this twilight zone episode last night where this "ugly" girl is transformed into a pretty clone.
Rod Sterling may have been commenting on something.
"THe best part is, I look just like you!"
sturm und drang
ReplyDeleteThis is such a good interview/history. I suggest it to people too young to have been there. John Giorno is a historian I would believe. Real deal. KJ sorry you are sum kinda yuppie/neocon...
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ReplyDelete:) what's wrong with w-burg one of my roomies wears those socks! is Grand Wood illustration - Balthus pornographic? i heart the palate..
ReplyDeletedress u up in my luv.
The hot palette is offset by the abundance of white, and the black and white panda head.
ReplyDeleteThose trendy images, like deer antlers, etc... have been around for over 500 years, soccer socks excluded.
Something about the palette and the washiness makes it seem more sincere than an Urban Outfitters illustration. I'm not sure why. It's in the subtle differences.
I'm reminded of Kitaj and Kandinsky.
Pictures are great.
ReplyDeleteThis picture could use some heaver line weights and a little gesso/goache erasure and so on and so forth. Why not? It is allreay arting it up. Might as well go the distance.
Or it could say the same thing using a style that sets itself apart from the fey, the antiheroic, the slacker, and the geek chik.
It could use some more explicit if ambiguous narrative, too.
Water buffalo? Hippos?
I like this Amy Morken prompting me to write this lithely ditty to reenforce I have the mind of a twelve-year-old.
ReplyDeleteClearing the throat...
Rainy Soft Day Soft, Flesh with Magenta, Mist
Drizzly and a dizzily colorful day to wake up to this tangle and fray
It can do you no bad, and possibly good
Where the 'wiggles and wangles',
the 'flowers and flesh' say not the last word.
That was touching.
ReplyDeletei feel like it is not a painting best understood thru cognitive processes.
ReplyDelete" I love myself; I want you to love me
When I feel down; I want you above me
I search myself; I want you to find me
I forget myself; I want you to remind me
I don't want anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself
Ooh I don't want anybody else Oh no, oh no, oh no "
Thanks, no-where. I think we all speak of the pompetus of love.
ReplyDeleteYeah, said it's all right
ReplyDeleteI won't forget
All the times I've waited patiently for you
And you'll do just what you choose to do
And I will be alone again tonight my dear
Verse 2:
Yeah, I heard a funny thing
Somebody said to me
You know that I could be in love with almost everyone
I think that people are
The greatest fun
And I will be alone again tonight my dear
-love
classic.
Alright enough with lyrics. This painting
ReplyDeletewon't last more than half a decade.
Graphic novels have better chances due to
their collectability (?)
Love or no love, my dear. Sorry.
We lauded hockney and left poor kitaj
to decay in the muck of historic mediocrity
Why? Dunno, really, but it might have something
having to do with desire-wanting-resistance.
In other words...
Don't be so easy baby. Sweetness can only
get you so far.
btw can i get your underwear on ebay?
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ReplyDelete;) ha no - if that is directed at me - but u can walk up to us in chelsea, it is a crapshoot as to what mood i am in. i have a theory about 80's lyrics being contemporary poetry.
did anyone see the Bonnie Colluras showing with her? Hey painter what about Bonnie?
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