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Painting When Painting was Dead
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Submitted by Sir Joshua, Dec 1, 2007 22:10

Sort of Andy Warhol (early) meets Otto Dix. I'd hate to have to 'create' a new way of looking at the world. I can see where you're coming from. You must have enjoyed the show of German Expressionist portraits at the Met last Spring. At least they were a human comment about the human condition. I haven't seen your abstract works, but in truth, the vaccuous atheism of abstraction bores one used to communicating with an artist through his work. It so completely takes man out of the equation that to laborously go on about it is just pure chatty self-indulgence. I know the movement, particularly here in NYC ate up several decades of the 20th Century, but in retrospect...what did it leave us? A lot of self-indulgent blah-blah by critics who were philating people with their own atheistic socialistic vacuity. Abstract art is what a lost soul looks like. The whole movement is empty, just empty. Intellectual to the point of conjectured non existance. Oh yes, what's the word they like to use...existential. Mmm. And it smells just like bs.


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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 (... [MORE]

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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