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Politics and Abstract Expressionism

November 7th, 2007

In grad school I remember a lecture about how abstract expressionism was exported and supported by the US government as a way of countering the official art of the Soviet Union. (Realism) Abstraction ment freedom and realism ment repression!

Where do you work

November 7th, 2007

Where do you work

I have two young children at home and my studio space has become a storeage area. For the last six years I have reduced the size of my paintings and have been painting in my car. So I am just currious, Where do you work? Beautiful studio, garage, outdoors, car, where???

Why do art

October 30th, 2007

Why do art

In graduate school I went through a personal crisis concerning art. The big question was, why is art important? I started to research art produced under different or extreme conditions. The Australian aboriginals created what was called dreamtime stories and stylized paintings to go along with these stories. This culture was unique in that they never developed a written language, but why the paintings and stories? These stories and paintings served as a type of map to find water holes and for knowing what time of year there would be water in these holes, a vital bit of survival information in the outback! I also became interested in the art produced in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. This art was so important that it was smuggled from prisoner to prisoner at the risk of death, why? These people often were very well educated and certainly could and did express their experiences in other ways. So why art at all? Communication not esthetics or decoration was my conclusion to this question. 80 to 90% of information we obtain comes through visual means, certainly important but not unique to the visual arts that make them unique as a means of powerful communication. First they transcend language, you may not be able to read a French or Russian author's work unless you speak their language but you can understand a painting done by a member of any culture despite the language barrier. The second issue is the time factor, with most forms of communication such as writing, theatre and dance the time it takes to receive the information contained within takes awhile. The visual arts, on the other hand, present all the information to the viewer at once. The combination or the visual image, the transcendence of language and the immediacy of the message make the visual arts not only important but also vital as a means of human expression.

Suburban Primitive Art

October 29th, 2007

Suburban Primitive Art

People have changed very little on the inside since tribal times.

 

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