Posted in Painting on Jun 29th, 2011
ShareIN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS of following Paul Resika’s painting, I have yet to see a single flower painting by him. Opening today at Lori Bookstein’s is “Paul Resika: Flowers,” a survey of atypical floral still lifes that begins in the late 1980s and continues into the present. A dozen small scale (22 x 18 [...]
Posted in Art, Art & Money, Artistic Identity on Jun 25th, 2011
ShareFOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT make your way through comment threads, or click through to off-site links, here is the comment by Banksy referred to earlier by reader Sam at the end of a comment thread:
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Whether you agree with it or not, you have to admit it is a bit rich coming from [...]
Posted in Art, Art & Money, Art and Politics, Artistic Pretension on Jun 23rd, 2011
ShareRandy Pausch gave good advice to his computer science students at Carnegie Mellon: When you know you are in pissing contest it, get out of it as fast as you can. So in the Pauschian spirit, I offer this delicious cartoon, sent by Mr. Eyeballs as both a free gift and a chastisement.
The previous [...]
Posted in Art, Art & Money, Art Education, Culture Cues on Jun 22nd, 2011
ShareThe Art Institutes, the largest collegiate system for design education in the world, began in 1921. The Art Institute of Pittsburgh was the flagship school, a model for the complex which has grown to some 45 schools in North America. It specializes in design: graphic, industrial, game, and related applied art fields that have a [...]
Posted in Art, Art Writing, Artistic Identity, Artistic Pretension on Jun 18th, 2011
ShareReader Sam has done us all a great favor by emailing the link to Arty Bollocks Generator. The site provides an instant Artist Statement for anyone applying for a grant, preparing for a show or cobbling together a CV. Gallerists, too, will find it useful for composing the kind of press releases vital to so [...]
Posted in Art, Art and Politics on Jun 11th, 2011
ShareWhere is Byron when we need him? This is what George Gordon Lord Byron, sexual magnet and progenitor of the Byronic hero, looked like:
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Oh, the melancholy tilt of the head, the dark eyes shining with sensitivity, his pale skin so delicate, so caressable! And that mouth! Small wonder Byron was the toast of London’s social [...]
Posted in Art, Art Writing, Artistic Identity, Things to Read on Jun 4th, 2011
ShareA small gem of a book that artists should have on their shelves is Jacques Maritain’s The Responsibility of the Artist. Together with Jacques Barzun’s The Use and Abuse of Art, it is all anyone needs to think or talk about the artist’s ultimate purpose.
Dover keeps Barzun in print. Sadly, it does not do the [...]
Posted in Art, Artistic Identity on Jun 2nd, 2011
ShareBEING AN ARTIST AND MAKING ART are not the same. One is self-conscious, the other is directed outward, as Jacques Maritain observed, to the good of the workâto the perfection of the work of one’s hand (if you are a visual artist) in its service to the eye and a cultivated sensibility. The first is [...]