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Painting When Painting was Dead
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Submitted by Terry Kosick, May 14, 2007 02:59

An apotheosis perhaps. Art held up to the gods by the critic. I've held similar concerns with a curator ( city museum) quite recently. The work he held dear was 20 years old (mine) I thought he should show it if he didn't like my newer more narrative work. Seems others are catching up now to my organic abstracts done when painting was mostly figurative or dead depending on who you talked to. Never the less if sir joshua Reynolds had a camera he could have leave the very commercial sycophantic portrait painting to the copyists and the real art to the abstractionists. With or without the deification by critic it is a braver form of creative time with paint.

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The picture of the painting above is a good example of a nice abstract painting, it has order & coherence,... [MORE]	Aloha	Sep 14, 2007 11:50
'Many of these disheveled yet sparky paintings...' I loved that sentence. It describes so many of the people invloved in... [MORE]	Sir Joshua	Feb 15, 2007 08:30
An apotheosis perhaps. Art held up to the gods by the critic. I've held similar concerns with a curator (...	Terry Kosick	May 14, 2007 02:59
I write these words in earnest and not as a snipe. You mention your 20 year old abstract work vs.... [MORE]	Sir Joshua	May 14, 2007 08:19
I stepped back after creating the abstract work when its evolution of that particular form depleated. I wanted my work... [MORE]	Terry Kosick	Nov 10, 2007 03:56
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