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The Graying of Modernism - artnet Magazine: Feb 15, 10:07am 1 review arts, art, painters, modernity
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kuspit/kuspit2-12-08.asp; THE GRAYING OF MODERNISM in Artnet by DONALD KUSPIT about "Jasper Johns: Gray," NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art professor of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and A.D. White professor at large at Cornell University.
From Impressionism onward modernism has moved steadily away from reality testing into the deceptive wonderland of hallucination.(3) It has moved away from the real thing and towards the perverse reality of the hallucinated thing -- into the bizarrely timeless and spaceless limbo of "vision" where things are real and unreal simultaneously. What began as an epistemophilic adventure ends in epistemophobic stalemate, which is what I think we have in Johnsu2019 engulfing grayness. ... Suspending the reality principle, it becomes a realm of dubious pleasure -- pseudo-esthetic pleasure. It also loses moral value, however indirectly; if white and black have moral significance, as Kandinsky and innumerable others have noted, then mixing them together to form neutral gray renders art morally indifferent. ... Modernism was re-playing itself like a broken record, squeezing every last bit of enigma and insinuation out of the medium. ... I thought I was looking at the suicide of art in process. THE GRAYING OF MODERNISM Jasper Johns. Map. 1962. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Jasper Johns. 0-9. 1959-62. collection of Martin Z. Margulies The search for a reality that the eye can't see was at the heart of the artistic adventure of the artists-thinkers of high modernity (1910-1930). They were unfortunately followed by artists who never understood the artistic quest of high modernity and who then all naturally concluded the experience of modernity in the one way street of "whatever is art" which unmistakably is a total failure or the "Death of art" as Kuspit posits in other works of his.

Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939): Nov 18, 2006 3:14pm 2 reviews visualization, visual-arts, painters
http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/witkacy/witkacy.html; Witkacy: Stanis Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939 via Meatbomb / Metafilter, in State University of NY-Buffalo Online by Mark Rudnicki
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz , Witkacy for short. Artist, photographer, absurdist playwright, surrealist novelist, philosopher, witness to the Russian revolution, art theoretician and critic, the Great Malinowski's closest friend, drug fiend, and by most accounts a raving maniac and self-involved pain in the ass. His greatest novel was sadly prophetic: fleeing east to escape the invading Nazis, and then hearing the news that the Communists were also on the way, he slit his wrists on September 18, 1939 in the village of Jeziory, a martyr and victim to his obstinate belief in the freedom and independence of man against the bankruptcy of ideology and the coming wave of totalitarianism Witkacy: Stanis Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939 Strange world of Witkacy Gallery Former post in Metafilter. Argonauts of the Western Pacific: S. I. Witkiewicz and Bronislaw Malinowski Witkiewicz in Wikipedia.
"Composition", 1922, oil on canvas, National Museum, Cracow
"Nocturnal Landscape", c. 1901-02, oil on canvas, 60 x 96 cm, Museum of Literature, Warsaw
"Composition", 1922, oil on canvas, National Museum, Cracow

I had never heard of this guy. What a discovery. While Paris and those artists who worked in Paris are all mostly well known (and bubble highly-quoted on the market)... it appears that some geniuses were ignored simply because they did not have ties to Paris... This guy was fully in the air of his time a bedfellow of the German expressionists.

http://www.marlboroughgallery.com/artists/botero/artwork.html: Oct 25, 2006 4:43pm 2 reviews art, painters
http://www.marlboroughgallery.com/artists/botero/artwork.html; FERNANDO BOTERO, Abu Ghraib. exhibition via 3QD, Marlborough Gallery Online Colombian artist Fernando Botero's paintings and sculptures grace museums and public spaces around the world, but he suddenly had trouble exhibiting his work in America when the topic was Abu Ghraib. A series of paintings depicting U.S. military abuse of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison was rejected by all the U.S. museums to which it was offered before it found a home at the Marlborough Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, where it opened last week and will remain on display until November 18. "Here there is total freedom of expression. That's why it was so alarming that the museums didn't want to show these works," Botero told Reuters in an interview at the gallery on Tuesday, surrounded by paintings of stripped and bound prisoners being abused by guards with dogs. URL: FERNANDO BOTERO, Abu Ghraib. exhibition URL: Botero's paintings of Abu Ghraib shunned in U.S URL: Abu Ghraib controversial paintings VIDEO

Whow, take a good look, for, tomorrow's history shall remember this in the same fashion as Picasso's Guernica... This is something that you just can't erase from reality it will permanently run after today's unilateral US foreign policy... I, personally, don't like Botero's style and I would not like to have one such painting in my home but one has to recognize that artistic creativity is something that can only operate in total freedom. What is important is not so much the form of a work of art but its content and the crudity of Botero's content can't be forgotten. Botero's Abu Ghraib serie will be remembered not for its artistic qualities but for its content... and those paintings are doomed to remain a permanent stain on the image of the United States in the eyes of the people of the world.

Austrian art - the New Constructivism of Werner Horvath: Sep 3, 2006 7:03pm 1 review arts, visualization, visual-arts, painters
http://members.telering.at/pat/werner.htm; Painters: Werner Horvath The web site of Werner Horvath Werner Horvath was born in Linz, Austria in 1949 and has been painting since his youth. Beside this interest he studied medicine in Vienna and was a well known chief radiologist in Linz, specialising in interventional radiology. Horvath decided to leave the medical profession at the age of 50 and has been working as a freelance artist ever since. He opened a studio named "Villa Arte" in Kastellos on the island of Crete (Greece)2003 and his "Atelier Horvath" in Linz, Austria, where he works during the winter. His artistic style was taken from Phantastic Realism in the early years to New Constructivism in the later and more modern times. The term "New Constructivism" is taken from the philosophical theory and based on the works of Vico, Uexku00fcll, Glasersfeld and Watzlawick, to name a few. The theoretical background is explained in detail by the artist in a stage play in form of a text-collage, called Jahrtausendwende - Die Theorie des neuen bildenden Konstruktivismus (in German). Horvath had tried to portray in his paintings, the reality we rely on is not so real at all. The world that we live in is understood only as we construct it ourselves. For example, colours only exist in our consciousness, therefore are not "real". The same is for objects and relationships. Finally they take into consideration the fact that we live in a symbolic world. Not only do we view Stalin as a Russian politician but also a symbol of dictatorship and cruelty. Horvath uses current political events at the inspiration for his work and often the colours and shapes used help to portray his opinion on our society. URL: Werner Horvath

Stunning work. The school of Vienna decidedly produces great masters. In the first half of the 20th century we had Klimt then Hundertwasser in the second half and now Horvath. I terminated my article "What is modernity after all?" that I had started as a comment on an earlier post "When is it modernism" published by artforum. In this article I have more on Horvarth. The same on Saatchi Online.

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | Sound and vision: Jun 23, 2006 7:19pm 1 review arts, painters
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1804602,00.html?gusrc=rss; Sound and vision Kandinsky was one of the "thinking painters" of mature modernity and one of the most interesting ones at that. He postulated that painting, or visual arts for that matter, were basically a question of "content", of narrative substance. Form for him was not determinant he conceived of it as following the content that was expressed. in The Guardian Arts by Gerard McBurney """ The idea of music appears everywhere in Kandinsky's paintings. He believed shades resonated with each other to produce visual 'chords' and had an influence on the soul. Composer Gerard McBurney on the Russian artist's concertos on canvas """ URL: Sound and vision URL: Adrian Searle finds the new Kandinsky show fascinating URL: Tate Modern's Kandinsky minisite

The New York Times & Log In: May 20, 2006 6:47am 1 review painters
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/20/theater/20odet.html; A Playwright's Art: 'It's Your Birthday, Clifford Odets! I was surprised when I discovered Odets paintings by the warm, lighthearted but nevertheless concerned colors he used. He gave sense through colors. Odets has never been a professional painter, he was a man of knowledge, here perhaps lays the recipe for sensical painting. I mean far from the market... in The NYTArts, by KATHRYN SHATTUCK """ Although Clifford Odets was self-educated, he had over the years amassed an extensive knowledge of the fine arts by way of his voracious reading. He had also developed an intense friendship with J. B. Neumann, the New York art dealer, under whose tutelage he collected works by Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Magritte, Georges Rouault, John Marin, Chaim Soutine, Horace Pippin and his favorite, Paul Klee, whose paintings Odets stockpiled, buying them up at a couple of hundred dollars each. At one point Odets owned more than 60 Klees, the largest private holding in the United States. And sometime in the early 1940's, when his thoughts turned increasingly troubled, and insomnia took charge of his life, Odets himself began to paint, producing more than 600 artworks from 1945 to 1957. Forty of them are on display in "It's Your Birthday, Clifford Odets! A Centennial Exhibition" at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan. """ URL: A Playwright's Art: 'It's Your Birthday, Clifford Odets!

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts news | Joash Woodrow: Apr 27, 2006 8:40am 1 review painters
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1761984,00.html?gusrc=rss; Joash Woodrow An artist's life! Marketing and art have nothing in common. You pursue the one or the other... and in finale market recognition is short lived while art recognition being long to come by will be long lived... in the Guardian by Nicholas Usherwood """ The chance discovery in a Harrogate bookshop in 2001, by the painter Christopher P Wood, of six volumes of an engraved Victorian art history, wildly and exuberantly annotated in a series of Picasso-esque drawings and collages by the then completely forgotten painter Joash Woodrow, led directly to the re-emergence of one of the most significant artistic figures in postwar British art. A visit a few days later by the Harrogate dealer Andrew Stewart to a small, semi-detached house in north Leeds, where Woodrow had lived alone for 20 years, uncovered an extraordinary story. The house was filled with some 750 canvases and around 4,000 works on paper, a lifetime's achievement which a devoted family was none the less contemplating consigning to a skip. """ URL: Joash Woodrow

3quarksdaily: Apr 17, 2006 1:00pm 1 review painters
http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2006/04/perceptions_per.html; Sughra Raza. Brown Girl. 2002. Acrylic on canvas. I first saw this picture this morning, posted by its creator, on 3QuarksDaily and then I found it on a few SU sites with no mention of its original web posting nor the name of its creator... My point here is not to have an argument but to advise Stumblers to mention the origin of their posts. in 3QuarksDaily by Sughra Raza. """ Sughra Raza. Brown Girl. 2002. Acrylic on canvas. """
URL: Sughra Raza. Brown Girl. 2002. Acrylic on canvas.

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | Out of this world: Mar 14, 2006 8:12am 1 review painting, painters
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1730485,00.html?gusrc=rss; Hilma Af Klint
""" How to say? Those paintings have something very 21th century. In some way they are very near from the spirit of my own works. Sure I also recognize the difference in terms of simplicity / complexity. But science had still a long way to go in Af Klint's time. """
in The Guardian by Adrian Searle:
""" Hilma af Klint claimed to be a clairvoyant who was told by spirit voices to paint 'on the astral plane'.
Before she died, at the age of 81 in 1944, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint stipulated that her paintings were not to be shown in public for 20 years after her death. Perhaps she felt that the world was not yet ready for them. In some respects, the world never will be ready for the occult symbolism and spiritualist gibberish that her work was derived from, and from which she gained her inspiration. Although the same peculiar beliefs attend the work of pioneering artists such as Mondrian, Kandinsky and Malevich, they never suggested, as did Af Klint, that their work was guided by an imaginary "leader in the spiritual world". For Af Klint, this was a certain Ananda, who in 1904 told her "she was to execute paintings on the astral plane"."""

URL: Adrian Searle on Hilma af Klint's revelatory paintings
URL: Hilma Af Klint - Brief Article in ArtForum by Ronald Jones
URL: The Hilma af Klint Foundation.

LA Weekly - Art/Books - Out Standing in His Field - Doug Harvey - The Essential…: Mar 9, 2006 10:40am 1 review painting, painters
http://www.laweekly.com/art/12823/out-standing-in-his-field/; Gustave Courbet
The man had the courage of his convictions. Rare nowadays in the West. Courbet refused the Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1870 and left his job as head of the Arts Commission for the anarchist Paris Commune in 1871. This ultimately led to his imprisonment and exile.
via 3quarksDaily from Doug Harvey at the LA Weekly:
""" Any asshole can channel the forces of nature, but it takes a genius to paint an asshole.
... Courbet discovered that the combination of his carefully managed persona as anti-urban provocateur and the unaffected tastes of the emerging marketplace allowed him to circumvent the conventions and pecking orders of the Beaux Arts mafia entirely.
... Hot on the heels of the refreshing revisionism of the LACMA (via MOMA) exhibit "Pioneering Modern Painting: C�zanne and Pissarro 1865-1885," "Courbet and the Modern Landscape" presents Angelenos with another rare opportunity to explore this signal era of French landscape painting that spawned Impressionism, Cubism, and ultimately Modern Art as we know it. """" URL: out standing in his field