tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post241066387988038566..comments2023-10-30T06:13:31.296-04:00Comments on PaintersNYC: Georges SeuratPainterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05087735650298480553noreply@blogger.comBlogger306125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-83755236929511807322008-01-16T13:12:00.000-05:002008-01-16T13:12:00.000-05:00KK--there's no there there, she doesnt get behind ...KK--there's no there there, she doesnt get behind her mark. oh thats the point? BLERG <BR/><BR/>(tina fey always says BLERG. in the show when she had this ikea furniture that she was trying to put together--you know how ikea furniture always has a weird swedish name like LACKGVES or something-- <A HREF="http://www.minimarketing.it/ikea_gen.htm" REL="nofollow"></A> - well her package was stencilled with BLERG. I think with an umlaut over the e)youth--lesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766715817815803423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-8909707414079674382008-01-16T09:11:00.000-05:002008-01-16T09:11:00.000-05:00ah webthing 'in the wreck'write like that and you'...ah webthing 'in the wreck'<BR/>write like that and you'll win your own contemporary journal.<BR/>I guess [what] you are saying [is] that when reaching a precipice you ought to be wearing the right lens, heaven forbid, otherwise one might find oneself, even though totally committed to falling into the abyss, instead, finding oneself one-toothed, or many tooth--splayed, bumped up, and yet still a few meters away on safe land's edge. <BR/>There is always a pledge to leap. Though the leap rarely has the same kind of pledge. <BR/>Kilimnik has responded to her own internal dilemmas. The later works show how she has dealt with them. i say admirably, though second-handedly, though honestly. Painters, right, as you say, will react like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-72944110963026170862008-01-16T08:26:00.000-05:002008-01-16T08:26:00.000-05:00"When the student is ready, the master will appear..."When the student is ready, the master will appear"rmuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383926467939155486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-90280548301599760032008-01-16T08:07:00.000-05:002008-01-16T08:07:00.000-05:00Kilimnuks knows... just play off the then/now past...Kilimnuks knows... just play off the then/now pastiche with your formative years of appropriation having been made in many similar practices during the 80's. She's often forgiven for burying a faux sincere approach because people read her as operating somewhere more subliminal. Or attest that the open ends in her work are a nice change from so many male painters ASSERTING everything in the last 100y (i don't have a problem with assertion though, and think this argument to be pretty dim). But really at the end of the day, her association with the 18th century is one many painters look to for guidance on what painting was (and can therefore continue to be). Yes, but no. Magazine culture gets done better by other artists. Or by the magazines themselves (if only their inks would not fade so fast). She's doing that thing again, the sad thing i see everywhere and totally understand. I just know her collectors get fooled by the initial fetish that is supposedly being (re)presented. Grand means two things, ain't that grand, and aint $hit grand. ANd bla bla, she's a good painter sometimes. (which is the best anyone seems to be able to be these days). <BR/><BR/>If i shutup the crit, I can imagine looking at A Summer Day, 1763, and dreaming about glimpsing just that part of life at the time might be a nice daydream. Daydreams really are something when they're good. <BR/><BR/>Are there two primary bees in the art hive today? One - the meaning maker, two - the purse opener? Artists who make work in such a way as to please both. Luxurious work, in appearance, especially with an important sounding date, just wack a "1774" on anything and immediately it carries WEIGHT (brass) but when the work also has a flagellant buried to subdue the guilt of failing to really add much to the discussion, then it's pretty common really. You see it everywhere. No-one really knows. That's ok. Good. I'm glad they don't (stop pretending!). <BR/><BR/>BUt who cares. Painters like painting, the end. What happens afterward when others get their mits, eyes, hands, typewriter's and interior designer's onto it is like trying to thread the wind.webthinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326120672162293479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-53080194840251691342008-01-16T05:30:00.000-05:002008-01-16T05:30:00.000-05:00Another form of magical thinking occurs when peopl...Another form of magical thinking occurs when people believe that words can directly affect the world. This can mean avoiding talking about certain subjects ("speak of the devil and he'll appear"), using euphemisms instead of certain words, or believing that to know the "true name" of something gives one power over it, or that certain chants, prayers or mystical phrases will change things. More generally, it is magical thinking to take a symbol to be its referent. Such ideas, however, have sprung from the soil of unbounded self-love, from the primary narcissism which dominates the mind of the child and of primitive man. But when this stage has been surmounted, the 'double' reverses its aspect. From having been an assurance of immortality, it becomes the uncanny harbinger of death.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-7167251403706620542008-01-16T00:20:00.000-05:002008-01-16T00:20:00.000-05:00Looks like its Artforum ready. What ever happened ...Looks like its Artforum ready. What ever happened to uncanny?zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-52495077581885607862008-01-15T22:17:00.000-05:002008-01-15T22:17:00.000-05:00Lots of good artists in the show so im sure it wil...Lots of good artists in the show so im sure it will be good. But how many banned words can you cram into one statement?<BR/><BR/>Nina In Position presents diverse artistic strategies that complicate the legibility of lack and difference in America. The selected artworks employ Walter Benjamin’s assertion, “To live is to leave traces,” as a platform from which to view and critique the body and its environs. Occupying Artists Space’s main gallery with a series of sculptural and post-sculptural gestures, Nina In Position reveals emancipated forms that, through their inherent deviance, function as “resistance to regimes of the normal.” Nina In Position is an attempt to articulate a new trajectory of sculptural encounters that rebel against the condition described by Benjamin as “Left Melancholia.” The exhibition’s curatorial focus aims to unlock the ways in which artistic exercises, histories, and narratives are re-signified within contemporary visual culture. <BR/><BR/>Nina In Position strives to challenge strict parameters of objecthood, exhibiting works that evade limitations and stealthily avoid genre. The work in the exhibition is hybrid, activated, and hyper-aware of its immediate environment. The gallery functions as a safe-house harboring artworks that, through their radicality and hybridity, challenge hierarchy and authority. The artworks elaborate sculpture’s mercurial qualities by examining materiality, transience, and the processes of making. They dodge overarching paradigms of social change, and instead gesture towards unknown forms, new constructions, and alternative modes of representation. Employing a Socratic strategy, Nina In Position’s curatorial matrix places intergenerational artworks in dialogue in order to identify how social, cultural, and geopolitical change occurs on a local level, as well as to articulate how methodologies, practices, and tolerance shape-shift over decades.youth--lesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766715817815803423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-66887117929477925372008-01-15T22:00:00.000-05:002008-01-15T22:00:00.000-05:00well, who said this blog is dead?Zip, I deleted fr...well, who said this blog is dead?<BR/>Zip, I deleted from my post pretty much what your response is. Right, it's a thing of position, and something in time, is not about time, though it can be both. <BR/>so i guess we are all tuckered out living in the hope, right! I mean right now seems right good, right? Whatever your perspective!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-61633674671479364702008-01-15T21:34:00.000-05:002008-01-15T21:34:00.000-05:00i find it puritanical. And the perspective is off,...i find it puritanical. And the perspective is off, because who the fuck is the viewer? Im not looking at the same moon, is all I'm saying, because if I was, I'd be outside, and I am not outside, I am in here.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-53429821761567226242008-01-15T19:48:00.000-05:002008-01-15T19:48:00.000-05:00well don't stop there, nowhereman and cap, all. Ka...well don't stop there, nowhereman and cap, all. <BR/><BR/><I>Karen Kilimnik's ocean, sky and mountain... paintings are minimally executed... their titles <B>refer to moments in time and/or places</B>.</I><BR/><BR/>Let's go!<BR/>Time [tick-tock] and space [wobble wobble]. Aren't they a juggle?<BR/>I sense this chilling romanticism, very close up, where an interior is enclosing or closing in on the exterior in a half-conceptual/ half what is it [?]<I> state of affairs, chances, and brief encounters</I>. <BR/>The circle paintings of the sky might suggest a desire to get to the anterior of experience, or strategy to get as close to the sky as possible in a hope to take it all in.<BR/><BR/>Hmm... interesting... any painting anthropologists out there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-76291088347582815722008-01-15T04:00:00.000-05:002008-01-15T04:00:00.000-05:00A polyseme is a word or phrase with multiple, rela...A polyseme is a word or phrase with multiple, related meanings. A word is judged to be polysemous if it has two senses of the word whose meanings are related. Since the vague concept of relatedness is the test for polysemy, judgments of polysemy can be very difficult to make. Because applying pre-existing words to new situations is a natural process of language change, looking at words' etymology is helpful in determining polysemy but not the only solution; as words become lost in etymology, what once was a useful distinction of meaning may no longer be so. Some apparently unrelated words share a common historical origin, however, so etymology is not an infallible test for polysemy, and dictionary writers also often defer to speakers' intuitions to judge polysemy in cases where it contradicts etymology. English has many words which are polysemous. For example the verb "to get" can mean "take" (I'll get the drinks), "become" (she got scared), "have" (I've got three dollars), "understand" (I get it) etc.<BR/><BR/>Polyvalent is a synonym for multivalent and denotes something which has many values, meanings or appeals. The metaphoric origin of ~valent is derived from valency in chemistry and by metaphoric attribution, may now connote a "subtle, polyvalent allegory".zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-19245277559233911082008-01-15T03:20:00.000-05:002008-01-15T03:20:00.000-05:00Alkyds yes! too quick to dry so tricky and oh so s...Alkyds yes! too quick to dry so tricky and oh so sticky.oilgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01460924046941064373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-59362815659965660772008-01-15T02:35:00.000-05:002008-01-15T02:35:00.000-05:00Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encount...Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the dayzipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-73459178802549283732008-01-15T02:11:00.000-05:002008-01-15T02:11:00.000-05:00OK I say we shoot for 500 by easter!The Kilimnik s...OK I say we shoot for 500 by easter!<BR/><BR/>The Kilimnik show at 303?<BR/><BR/><I>Karen's moving out...</I><BR/><BR/>Skies, clouds, mountains<BR/>Space is the place, by George<BR/><BR/>'water-based oil paint' - isn't that what we used to call Alkyd or something? (where's my Mayer...)CAPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09861096695503969576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-11973740147100499852008-01-15T02:02:00.000-05:002008-01-15T02:02:00.000-05:00up against the wall motherfuckers! Its hawaii five...up against the wall motherfuckers! Its hawaii five-o looking for your bible making you tai bo shake shake shake for survival sounds so slow but its automatic trigger happy tidal. No problems last forever too clever fox in the weather - cold in your bones, predicting goose, gander, whatever.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-11904899340987593412008-01-15T01:12:00.000-05:002008-01-15T01:12:00.000-05:00Ninety nine pieces like humpty dumpty nobody can e...Ninety nine pieces like humpty dumpty nobody can eat fitty, except in an omelette with a mimosa, like the hipsters on sunday hey man, you're motherfuckin fuckin captain Barbosa yeah yeah yeah like cokies place, no hope in dope, Mr. Narrator, The numerous instances where he has used the lines "I drop bombs like Hiroshima" are omitted. I'm One Zero so you know you gotta be a hero. Instances doesn;t ryme with dime, but you know, now it's done like a spare tire. Don;t shoot till you see the whites of their eyes.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-90602410786665917652008-01-15T00:13:00.000-05:002008-01-15T00:13:00.000-05:00MARLÈNE MOCQUET - 327 Commentsholds the recordhttp...MARLÈNE MOCQUET - 327 Comments<BR/>holds the record<BR/><BR/>http://painternyc.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.htmlCAPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09861096695503969576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-35820516308282402862008-01-14T22:47:00.000-05:002008-01-14T22:47:00.000-05:00apophenia, aha! glass is ready bring it on, painte...apophenia, aha! glass is ready bring it on, painter.oilgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01460924046941064373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-19748889279660422852008-01-14T18:08:00.000-05:002008-01-14T18:08:00.000-05:00taking patterns and arranging them in meaningful w...<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxgnSK_MCpw" REL="nofollow">taking patterns and arranging them in meaningful ways</A>webthinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326120672162293479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-25986633241833138442008-01-14T17:54:00.000-05:002008-01-14T17:54:00.000-05:00some peeps are keepin the flame going...oilgirl it...some peeps are keepin the flame going...<BR/><BR/>oilgirl it's not cryptic.<BR/><BR/>not to an apopheniac anyway...<BR/><BR/>the lillian schwartz reference to seurat in pt.2 was timely...<BR/><BR/>but really, 300 looms in pnyc stagnation...<BR/><BR/>i've got a bottle of moet ready to pop when the next post arrives.webthinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326120672162293479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-63286388779924043092008-01-14T11:58:00.000-05:002008-01-14T11:58:00.000-05:00no taxation without representationin a manner of s...<A HREF="http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/images/p155.gif" REL="nofollow">no taxation without representation</A><BR/><BR/>in a manner of speaking.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diLa2lig3dw&eurl=http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=webexistential" REL="nofollow">proto photoshop</A>zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-73615347409688350622008-01-14T07:03:00.000-05:002008-01-14T07:03:00.000-05:00...and when the mike lets you down.http://music.pr......and when the mike lets you down.<BR/><BR/>http://music.princeton.edu/%7Edmitri/deeppurple.mov<BR/><BR/>blew that one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-25550209586659408872008-01-14T07:00:00.000-05:002008-01-14T07:00:00.000-05:00every way you cut it there's still " REL="nofollow...every way you cut it there's still <A HREF="http://music.princeton.edu/%7Edmitri/deeppurple.mov<br/>" REL="nofollow">Smoke</A> on the <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bixUSXuh8J4" REL="nofollow">Water</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-90044335345600094102008-01-14T05:04:00.000-05:002008-01-14T05:04:00.000-05:00He wrote to Carlyle in 1838 that his sentences wer...<A HREF-="http://www.smethporthistory.org/smethportspeciality/Wolly2.jpg" HREF="" REL="nofollow">He wrote to Carlyle in 1838 that his sentences were like electricity, for they were comprised of "infinitely repellent particle[s]" (CEC 185). Eloquence fulfills man's "want of electricity to vitalize" his life (W 8:70); poetry emerges electromagnetically through the "magnetic tenaciousness of an image" (W 8:27), and "shall thrill and agitate mankind" (W 8:73).(3)</A>zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-13260563512304907352008-01-14T04:56:00.000-05:002008-01-14T04:56:00.000-05:00"In a metalepsis, a word is substituted metonymica..."In a metalepsis, a word is substituted metonymically for a word in a previous trope, so that a metalepsis can be called, maddeningly but accurately, a metonymy of a metonymy."zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.com