Walter Logeman: Journal
I am listening to a Kim Hill interview of Max Gimblett.
Wonderful. If you listen to nothing else I link to listen to this.
Artist born in Grafton, New Zealand, big in New York. Paintings Wonderful on art, audience, Buddhism, relationship, Jung, therapy, life & love.
Some quotes I noted, and an an image of his art follows:
From an article in the WSJ by Barbara Rose
Robert Rauschenberg, whom many, including this writer, believe to be the biggest innovator in art after Jackson Pollock, died on Monday at age 82, an acknowledged hero of the avant garde. The passings of these two artists could not have been more different. Pollock careened to his death in a fatal 1956 car crash at age 44. Rauschenberg, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas, did not go gently into that good night. Paralyzed by a stroke, like his own hero de Kooning, he continued to work until the end of a long and productive life. From a wheelchair in his beachfront studio in Captiva, Fla., where he had retired from the New York art scene in the late 1960s, he selected images from the vast archive of his own photographs and, working with the aid of assistants, continued to turn out a steady stream of canvases and sculptures. Nor did he let the stroke keep him from attending openings and festivities.
The Wikipedia entry as it read on Sunday, 18 May, 2008 and some images follow:
Maira Kalman Here is a good post about her on a blog. I stumbled on that one. & then found more and more.
Quirky art. Her website. She is the wife of Tibor Kalman who died 1999. I blogged about him before I had an art blog.
She does fabric art and illustrated “Elements of Style” Amazon
And then, once again TED – downloading the video now!
Later: Saturday, 10 May, 2008
That talk is fabulous, much better than a blog! Go and see it!
Images follow:
Book & Show at Te Papa
I saw a great video or TV thing recently, what was that?
Scoop: Rita Angus: An artist’s life
Book & Show at Te Papa
I saw a great video or TV thing recently, what was that?
Scoop: Rita Angus: An artist’s life
Is making a link making art? Can you make a link that would connect these images? Any meaningful connections? I will made one link in the comments below, and I wonder how many can be found/made?
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This Stuart Brand’s short report on the talk:
Long Views » Blog Archive » Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais, “At the Edge of Artâ€
I found it inspiring, fun and informative. I agree also with the comments on the blog post that there is plenty of art in galleries that is art on the edge.
Yes, art can be very diverse.
Their anti body analogy is great though.
Gagosian Gallery – Lucio Fontana
LUCIO FONTANA
Concetto Spaziale, 1965
Graphite on aluminum
95-3/4 x 38 x 3-1/4 inches (243 x 96.5 x 8 cm)
Someone remarked how my Earth Crosses had an element of Fontana. I can see the point. They may have more in common! I am thinking of chainsaws.
Another image follows:
I have a nasty feeling as I surf the web that I should be working or creating, but if I had done that I would not have found Patrick Shirvington’s art or learned about the Arthur Boyd residency. Now: https://www.bundanon.com.au/
I love the Shoalhaven River in NSW, Australia – one of my favourite places. I canoed down it when I was in my late teens and also went on a few bushwalking trips. I enjoyed a video recently of Arthur Boyd doing huge plein air on the river. It is a place where I would love to go & do art!
Images follow. Both of them inspire me to keep going with my landscapes, and I need a bit of inspiration on that right now.
Charles Saatchi came to some of Doig’s early shows, in pubs and odd spaces, but he never bought anything. The press was full of articles about the death of painting, but Doig, who by now had a wife whom he’d met at St Martin’s and the first of their five kids, trusted those obituaries were exaggerated.
Perhaps one consequence of his rootless childhood was a hoarder’s habit: he was a great collector of images and scraps of things, taking Polaroids, hanging on to bits of strangeness he saw. In London, he often went to Canada House on Trafalgar Square to raid its library of travel brochures, trying to make some sense of his memories of adolescence in Toronto. In contrast to the slickness of the art that was making headlines, he had a desire to make paintings that were resolutely ‘homely’, often literally so: a recurring obsession in his work were colloquial suburban and rural houses, glimpsed from across roads or through trees, domestic images so singular that they shift, like David Lynch scenes, into the territory of uncanny.
White Canoe Image follows: