i just know that one thing i never want to hear, ever, is why those plants in the upper-right actually are NOT good. because before i know why i should not like those plants, i just like them. i'm an ignorant baby, typing at 90+ wpm. don't ruin this baby's night
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:08 (two years ago) link
i think someone else would look at it and concentrate entirely on why the subject is there, why they have a guitar, where this is, who painted it, what time of day, the gallery it was first shown in, and all of that. all of that is good! i devour that shit, sometimes! i am a big de kooning fan - i want to know what was going on while he was painting it, and who everyone was sleeping with. but i don't need to, with everyone, first, i just recognize that corner appeals to me.
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:10 (two years ago) link
at first I didn't even see the guitar. the composition of it and the details are beautiful
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:13 (two years ago) link
i didn't like metallica until 2 weeks ago
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
and also, metallica is...
__GOOD____BAD____FOOD___FOOD FOR SOME SOME PEOPLE____BAD FOR SOME PEOPLE____THE DEFINITION OF TOXIC MASCULINITY____EXCELLENT__
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:33 (two years ago) link
Perhaps the secret you are hinting at here is that the more practiced and proficient one becomes in controlling an artistic medium to conform to the outcome you aimed at producing
I don't think they're too focused on achieving a particular outcome, a lot of the time. Sometimes an intended outcome is what they're willing to abort when it starts to interfere with their enjoyment of the process. That varies from kid to kid and project to project, of course. Frustrations and struggles with the medium are apparent in some of the pieces, and that can either enhance or diminish the work for me, or neither. I'm generally more taken with the way their eye distorts things than their hands. A lot like how this Valtat guy looks at a park and sees a jungle. My favorite piece in all the time i worked there was a ridiculous hand-built urn that looked like a trophy.
OK. Why do you believe that?
I just thought it was too uncanny? Not inconceivable that they might be a contemporary works, just a lot less likely.
A good painting makes the viewer feel ashamed, either because they could never make it, or because they don’t understand it.
No.
who everyone was sleeping with.
Lol.
I can think of a few art critics who avoid making value judgements, i don't see the point of that.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:41 (two years ago) link
...some of the kids are pretty good with clay, too.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
the face isn't good. it's the first thing i go to because i'm a human and i look at faces. i see the human. cool, it's a human. guitar. ok.
look at that tree above, her though. the one to left is good too, but especially the on in the upper-right quadrant. i like the piny thorny plants behind and to the right of her head as well. the human is there, with a couple eyeballs. faces are hard. this artist didn't take much time with it, but they spent way more time on the plants. the plantlife is very good. "how" is it "good", i don't know, what is rock and roll
I enjoyed your 'review' of the painting, KM.
It surprises me that you went right to the face, with everything going on here i don't find my eye drawn to anything as a focal point.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:48 (two years ago) link
It's a very intense setting, for a leisure scene. The plants look like they're going to eat her.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:51 (two years ago) link
keep going! this is like an erotic PR email pitch
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:54 (two years ago) link
and by that i mean - i'm drawn to those things
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:55 (two years ago) link
do i want her to not be eaten, if i have a choice? no, eat her! she's some rich aristocratic lovechild from the 1890s, fucking eat her alive!
an intense leisure scene? fuck yeah
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link
it doesn't mean it's good for you, it just means it's good for me
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
Your comments reminded me of this from Barry Schwabsky's review of Clement Greenberg's collected essays
It couldn’t have been fun for artists to find themselves athwart Greenberg’s exclusivity, though not many had to face judgments he’d been storing up for years, as Georgia O’Keeffe did when he reviewed her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946: “The lapidarian patience she has expended in trimming, breathing upon, and polishing these bits of opaque cellophane betrays a concern that has less to do with art than with private worship and the embellishment of private fetishes with secret and arbitrary meanings.” And that was one of his more sympathetic comments on O’Keeffe. She sounds like Laura Wingfield polishing her glass menagerie. How things have changed in sixty years: The very qualities Greenberg invoked to bury O’Keeffe would now more likely be used to praise an artist’s work.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:59 (two years ago) link
It's quite comic, to me. Attack Of The Killer Foliage. The poor lady, sitting in the park on a Sunday afternoon, completely oblivious to these gnarly killer trees and the plants pulsating with this menacing energy, about to devour her alive. They're going to crowd her out of her own picture at the very least.
The hilarity of it undermines its power for me
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 28 August 2021 05:22 (two years ago) link
Her lifelessness animates the plants more and more. I perceive it as a symbiotic relationship. She'll be plant food soon, and so will all of us, really. It's the cycle of life, it's nature's way.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 28 August 2021 05:29 (two years ago) link
My review of this big beast Fritz Aigner bookhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4184306073
Just got 2 Ernst Fuchs books in the mail
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 August 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
i don't really think paintings should make you feel ashamed, i was trying to create an aphorism
― treeship., Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
whether a painting is "good" or "bad" is subjective, but i think "beauty" is too narrow of a criteria. some paintings are great because they are transcendently ugly, like the work of chaim soutine and philip guston.
as with all arts, what we're looking for is something like "truth," but a very peculiar definition of it.
― treeship., Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
I love how jumblytumbly those Valtat pieces are. Chaim Soutine is another fine jumblytumbler.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 August 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
you guys are weird
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 August 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
Ben Sledsenshttps://www.instagram.com/p/CTATjb3tvM4/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 August 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
Nice video about Aleksandra Waliszewska, one of my favorites. Annoying skillshare advert near the start.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgE15jkhtpo
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 September 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
Mark Laver is like a gooey Charles Burchfieldhttps://www.instagram.com/marklaver1970/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 12 September 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
Carl Blechenhttps://www.artatberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/ARTatBerlin-Waldweg-bei-Spandau-Carl-Blechen.jpg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
A video about Suehiro Maruo in the same format as the Waliszewska one abovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w67WMr4krLI
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 17 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/magazine/the-odd-otherwordly-glow-of-fred-herzogs-photography.html
Had somehow never heard of Fred Herzog, love it all.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 October 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
http://book-graphics.blogspot.com/search/label/Alb%C3%ADn%20Brunovsk%C3%BD
Bottom two galleries are the best ones.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.outsiderartnow.com/viljo-gustafsson/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/natsuko_tanihara/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 October 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
I know he might be "too mainstream" but I am really happy that Stanley Whitney is getting the recognition he deserves.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/arts/design/stanley-whitney-lisson-gallery.html
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
No such thing as too mainstream and he's new to me
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 1 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
He had a piece on the cover of Artforum last year. He's tremendous, imho.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
Creating a hashtag just to give me-self a pretense to thread art of the past ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) pic.twitter.com/IqP5k3n0AG— LaumeB (@GlitchedAnanke) November 9, 2021
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 2 January 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
https://www.pinterest.com/bethgilmour/agnes-miller-parker/https://www.pinterest.com/pin/405112928950303641/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
dang, that's amazing
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
yeah lovely stuff. also liked this i saw today:
Contemporary artist Lena Limkina created an “artist's diary,” with pen and and ink journal sketches #WomensArt pic.twitter.com/Q1qb2BtDEq— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) February 9, 2022
― ledge, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 10:52 (two years ago) link
http://halcyonrealms.com/books/the-beauties-in-myths-ohrai-noriyoshi-art-book-review/http://halcyonrealms.com/books/the-last-odyssey-ohrai-noriyoshi-art-book-review/http://halcyonrealms.com/film/ohrai-noriyoshi-ii-1966-1984-art-book-review/http://halcyonrealms.com/film/green-universe-ohrai-noriyoshi-art-book-review/
https://www.pinterest.jp/ohraimapa/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 March 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
From 1991-1992 Suzanne Treister made fictional video game stills using Deluxe Paint II, and took photos of them. The original floppies are corrupt(!) so only the photographs remain! Amazing example of computer art from this era, predating the glitch art of today by decades. pic.twitter.com/7XHeCm0BtP— brandon sheffield (@necrosofty) April 21, 2020
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OVTYhVM.jpgcorey k lamb
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
Thank you Premlak 🙏 pic.twitter.com/NzDCNvxQzg— LC von Hessen ☠ (@LCvonHessen) March 29, 2022
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 April 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
nazanin pouyandehhttps://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f67b290bcce6b6e944cc8/1626517496933-7F4QADTN8JKW6VZF602O/IMG_4243.jpg
― im zelenky (||||||||), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
josie perryhttps://i.imgur.com/ufbRIo8.png
― im zelenky (||||||||), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
dan lissvikhttps://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c7fa070a9ab955a77c0a3ac/1619899011743-514V8MPPOGJLQU8QK1J1/Blomma-Ca.jpg
― im zelenky (||||||||), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
ran across Nicolae Grigorescu today
https://i.imgur.com/m5Je00Y.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/K8FcDYQ.jpg
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 April 2022 04:10 (two years ago) link
Always liked this book but never knew anything about ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejg8eA4yIG4
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
Didn't know this series was back on but it's been going a few years and quite enjoyable at timeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7HVGMNPskE
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 May 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
hadn't heard of that, looks interesting!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 29 May 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
The Claire Wendling and Jung Gi Kim videos might be a good starter
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 May 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
Anyone know who this cover painting is by?https://broadviewpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9781554815326.jpg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link