by admin | Dec 31, 2009 | Thinking about Art - Out Loud
What does it mean to be an artist? and then what does it mean to be an artist in the 21st century in the US? I’ve written here before how Duchamp determined what an artist was through a leap of complete conviction and belief and that concept continues to operate...
by admin | Dec 2, 2009 | Painting, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
Had you ever heard of this word? I certainly hadn’t until recently when I read it in a blog interview with Claude Emile Furones on the website The Art Point. It’s an amazing interview with the most articulate of artists. Unfortunately, the interview is no...
by admin | Nov 20, 2009 | Painting, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
As I’m finalizing all the pieces for my new work, Le Dejeuner sous la Pluie, I have been spending a great deal of time with the Manet work, Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, something I commented on in earlier posts. During this time I found that Michelangelo was...
by admin | Nov 2, 2009 | Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
There is a wonderful series on Public Television called “ART:21” that I recently started watching (ah, the wonders of Hulu!). This particular series seeks an in-depth investigation into the why and wherefores of contemporary art of all kinds. A portion of...
by admin | Oct 16, 2009 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
What would a reinterpretation of this very famous painting be like? How would one handle it in a post Duchampian world? This is the question I am puzzling over at this very moment. It’s both marvelously frivolous and frankly serious being such an event and...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Identity-based art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
A month after the now infamous urinal by R. Mutt (Marcel Duchamp) was rejected by the exhibition he had submitted it to, a little magazine called The Blind Man, which was co-edited by Duchamp, defended Mr Mutt’s Fountain: “Whether Mr Mutt with his own...
