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Archive for September 2009
stop following me!
Just how far would an artist go to alienate his followers, to the point of eliminating even the mildest of interest in the work? I can guess your first response. I’m discounting the witless wonders who produce harebrained art while claiming canonical importance, when nearly every left and right brain thinker (not including the sycophants… (read more)
mining for understanding
Leave it to another art form, this time the theatre, to pierce through the fog of contemporary painting. Art can’t seem to do that on its own. It must be the only thing in the world that can’t (not counting Marmite, which, for the good of mankind, should remain mysterious). Lee Hall’s “The Pitmen Painters”… (read more)
help wanted: indolence necessary
Want a job? I know, you’d think in these desperate times what job could possibly be so readily available. Unemployment stretching toward 10% in the US, skyrocketing toward 8% in the UK, and probably just as bleak on the European continent, how could such an unforeseen opportunity exist? What, the fleeing Third Worldians from Calais… (read more)
manufacturing nature through art
I don’t quite understand the idea of trompe l’oeil, the french phrase for fooling the eye. Other than the obvious: to prove you can make something so good it fools others into thinking art is reality, it seems to be more science than art. To be accomplished at it is to be technically skilled, and… (read more)
how to be a big shot collector with no money
Increasing knowledge about art is every expert’s recommendation to new collectors. See as much as you can, is the typically quoted piece of advice, and you’ll learn what quality looks like. But art stays put, and you can’t be everywhere, not even at different times. If you’re fortunate enough to live near a major metropolitan… (read more)