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posted November 10, 2003 in deliverygreasetank
mix equal parts "fight club" and tom of finland and you'll start to get a sense of what's going on at greasetank: the intense and often violent imagery isn't for everyone, but it's worth checking out if you're interested in exploring the further reaches of gay erotic poser art.
posted November 10, 2003 in art, sexkimmelman on serra
[richard] serra remembers bringing his students from the school of visual arts to the met in the late sixties and early seventies ... "here you're supposed to discriminate but the museum is actually working against this. it dissipates the amount of attention you give to any one object unless you really come with a directed idea and say, 'i want to focus on this painting and really see it.' so you have to find a way of isolating yourself to make value judgments ... it's like going from the art museum to the kmart when you move from the pollock to the tomlin. the pattern in the tomlin is so flatfooted and sterile. it's decorative. decorativeness is a tradition in american painting, and it has produced mediocre art and also great art. joseph cornell used a certain decoration to pull of his fantasies. jasper johns's terrific flag paintings are, in some ways, decorative. decoration means pattern, geometry, and repetition as the content of the work. pollock's intention wasn’t to decorate, to pattern, to use a repetitive model" ... he compares one richter image of a dead gang member to goya, then to late rembrandt: "at the end, rembrandt painted himself as meat. it was about him confronting his own mortality, and the paintings became smelly and foul and really great."
- michael kimmelman, portraits: talking with artists at the met, the modern, the louvre, and elsewhere
posted November 10, 2003 in art, printcarpet-like
in his painting villa on the attersee, klimt again resorts to this drawing technique by outlining the objects in black, and in the precise way he depicts the structure of the objects, such as the shingles on the roof or the flowers on the shrubs. this carpet-like structure, which uniformly covers the surface of the painting with colored speckles, makes the objects appear incorporeal. however, the various green, yellow, and red tones provide coloristic unanimity, and the evenness of the colored texture gives an impression of complete harmony.
- stephan koja, gustav klimt: landscapes, quoted in sotheby's impressionist and modern art part one, november 5, 2003
posted November 10, 2003 in art, printreal tomatoes
mayes's book is only one example of a flourishing publishing phenomenon: the many volumes devoted to the upper-middle-class american dream of getting away to a primal paradise of sunshine, sex, love, terra-cotta tiles, and huge salads with real tomatoes.
- david denby, "heart of the country," new yorker september 29, 2003
posted November 10, 2003 in film, print