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 Because there's always room for art, Baby!
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Because there's always room for art, Baby! What she said!
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Last edited by cleome54; 02/09/21 11:30 PM.
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Love some Romare Bearden. I think I see why you would too, cleome.
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 That pic almost convinced me that I had synesthesia. I can hear music when I look at it. A couple of random obscurities from an old art theory book which once belonged to my Dad (R.I.P.) : Mario Carreno (1913-1999) "The Promenade"Louis Gugliemi (1906-1956) "Solitudes"
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All three are great. Thanks, Cleome.
I especially like Gugliemi's eye for color.
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Yeah, as nice as the black-and-white book is, it's a revelation to see the paintings in color. (And to see if they match up with the color schemes you originally imagined.)
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Oh, yeah. I like this. The diagonal of the street is what keeps the rest of it from seeming overly static and flat. Now thinking a lot about Kurt Schwitters.  I don't usually see his commercial work and his personal work side by side like this, so that's cool.
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Jeez, how did I forget that I actually have a couple of photos of Louise Nevelson's (1899-1988) incredible sculptures? (I've been a fan for ages, but that's what happens when you own more books and magazines than anyone in the world needs. Heh.) https://louisenevelsonfoundation.org/gallery.htmlI read a critic from the Sixties who praised her work as "severe." I don't know. Despite her fondness for single-colored structures, I've always found them very welcoming and even whimsical at times. To each their own.
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I LOVE... I'm captivated by Louise Nevelson's work. Have been for years.
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But... do you find it... severe, LT?
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Heck no. Like you said, "welcoming and even whimsical at times." I like geometric designs (among many other things), and her work often seems like geometry becoming organic...or the other way around. They make me feel both amazed and comforted.
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Months later, I finally get my personal Nevelsons uploaded: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/330399/album/1304956Just scroll to the end of the page. Enjoy! (The best part of virtual sculpture ownership is that the cat can't climb in it, and you don't have to hire specialized staff to dust for you.)
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oooh great collection, cleome!!!!
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Wow! She was a visionary! Thanks, Cleome.
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[bows] I was so excited to finally get those into the album.
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Since I was just thinking about my last visit to the Seattle Art Museum, here's a link to one of the most memorable artists I saw there: https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/10/breakfast-series-sonny-assu
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Thanks, Cleome. Brilliant satire that cuts deep, as the best satire always does.
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This year for Christmas, my parents gave me a book about Fauvism.
I love the bright colors, and the way that the sensuousness of the brushstrokes themselves is often the whole point of these works.
Anyone else have thoughts on Fauvism?
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I have a tough time keeping up with who's a Fauve and who's not. My mind tends to throw in anyone from the first half of the 20th Century who adored large fields of brilliant color. Like either Delaunay, or Franz Marc.  https://www.franzmarc.orgThere's a scene in one episode of Columbo where the murder is over a priceless collection of fine art. There's a cheesy-looking horse painting in one scene which was clearly a slap at Marc. But whatever... 
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That's beautiful! Thanks, Cleome!
That book on Fauvism clarifies a lot about who is and who isn't. The authoress, Sarah Whitfield, posits Matisse as the movement's leader of sorts.
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FAR on the other end of the spectrum, an installation about being "ghosted" by a platform provider: https://silviolorusso.com/work/platform-ghosts"In the context of personal relationships, ghosting is considered hurtful, rude and dehumanizing. In the context of platforms, ghosting makes digitally mediated labor even more precarious and atomized. When the threshold between work and life is very thin, the termination of a YouTube account can mean very different things: it can be a trifle for a casual user, but it can become a tragedy for a professional vlogger. This is equally true for those performing what academics Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri call ghost work: the hidden human labor powering apps and artificial intelligence systems." The writing doesn't say it, but in a way the divided panels, which cause a "hiccup" effect because you have to read a sentence broken in half by a gap in space, bring to mind the panels and gutters of comics. Except in this case the "illustration" is the viewer silently regarding the writing and the bright-colored panels.
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I got a sweet deal last weekend on a book of works by the painter and sculptor Audrey Flack (b.1931). I was so fond of her photo-realist still life paintings when I was just starting college. At book size, they have an intimate feel. But in real life, they're monumentally large works. http://www.audreyflack.com/photorealism
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Oh, my good gods, that's astonishing! Her eye for color! The pristine hyper-realism!
Thanks, Cleome.
Meanwhile, I found out the other day that Francoise Gilot turned 100 last November. Joyeux centieme anniversaire, Madame! I've been planning to borrow her first book, "Interface: The Painter and the Mask," from my library.
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