monochromes and hard edged abstraction

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_114501_465698_wade-guyton.jpg

In my brief career as a wannabe abstract artist, I perpetrated some of this kind of stuff myself...
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4854653850_a5b9e27160.jpg

http://qag.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0006/59982/varieties/Popup_800.jpg

http://artists.parrishart.org/media/east_end_stories/images/9/44974_object_representations_media_938_600pix.jpg

http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/images/mightbegood/reviews/feitelson.jpg

http://greg.org/archive/mary_meyer_1974_aam.jpg

http://emuseum2.guggenheim.org/media/previews/91.3771_ph_web.jpg

http://www.corcoran.org/collection/images/1969.38.jpg

no, but great idea xp! thats robert ryman, he has only painted white paintings for his whole career

ah yeah now I see some slight texture/grayness in the picture

I was going to be all "how did I miss this thread!" but then realized it's only 25 minutes old.

http://www.askart.com/AskART/photos/CNY20070228_3798/311.jpg

tbh this is the thread ive always wanted to make

http://www.12ozprophet.com/images/uploads/cache/rauschenberg-white-painting-690x690.jpg

Can I get a
http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm2220/2005-06/artWorks/frankStella1.jpg

http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm2220/2005-06/artWorks/frankStella2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/%27Bridge%27_by_Kenneth_Noland,_1964..jpg

tiarnan from that alt-test-card one (the one u posted at 20 mins past) onwards these have been infinitely doper than the ones at the start of this thread - can u explain why maybe?

there are some really hideous Frank Stellas up at SFMoMA right now

Rauschenberg's Erased DeKooning is something i will perpetually find funny

rodrigo andrade deserves to be better known btw

http://www.escolasaopaulo.org/atividades/art-tour-navarro-correas/image

herrera/halley apart obv

that last one is neat but I do not think I understand it yet

LJ i have no idea. for one thing that yellow richard aldrich is so awesome to me.

http://www.exporevue.com/images/magazine/707newman_show.jpg

http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l2_grnfthrs_fldr/g0000_gr_inf_images/g055_newman_whos_afraid.jpg

The OP ones were quite good tbf

this is one of my favourite things abt the erased de kooning i have ever read (ex ilxor anth0ny east0n)

and the erased de kooning--the erased dekooning had a holiness unmatched, all of that mysticism, of trying to erase, and failing to erase, and the weird freudian energy of recreating the primal scene there, and the making of work via absences, and how absences are presences, and how tender, he worked on making sure that drawing disappared, how the amount of tools for erasal were matched by the amount of tools of creation...

http://donchristensen.com/images/SouthOfThePark01.jpg

also EDB <3. that installation view of stations of the cross was the only image included w/ my thesis.

and he went through 40 erasers doing it too!

Xpost that is.

And re: Stations of the Cross: totally. I entirely think that Barnett Newman is the greatest painter ever. Just look how badass he is here:

http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/irvingpenn/images/bn.jpg

http://designhistorylab.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2-mondrian-composition-no-101.jpg

oo i like that one who is it

yeah but most of these guys are completely essential imo

I've never really got Peter Halley. granted I don't know anything about him, but aesthetically I find his works to be kind of off putting. I can't not think of the square tool in MSpaint when I see his works (although they probably look a lot better in person when they're more than a few inches in size).

i guess thats the point tho?

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_1108_528214_leonpolk-smith.jpg

reeeally struggling to suppress the post-loads-of-ellsworth-kelly impulse

http://cs.nga.gov.au/IMAGES/MED/102563.JPG

wkiw anne truitt btw

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/programs/image_1_415.jpg

think i've mentioned before ws barnett newman tho

stone fox

http://academics.smcvt.edu/gblasdel/art/Barnett%20Newman.jpg

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/abstractexpressionism/images/AdReinhardt-Abstract-Painting-No-5-1962.jpg

think this is the ad reinhardt we saw at tate modern btw lj

ah nice yeah I dig that one a lot even if it isn't as stark as the other stuff here

To be honest it's probably a lot less stark in person than in a reprod, knowing ad reinhardt.

No Yves yet?

http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/yves_klein_ikb.jpg

Although I have no idea, I didn't know he made non all black works.

http://www.artfagcity.com/wordpress_core/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/heilmann_main.jpg

whose that guy that just paints peter saville record covers again

There's a fine line between stuff that looks like it belongs on the wall of an art gallery, and stuff that looks like it's in the reception area of a leisure centre.

2 summers ago, one of the best art exhibits I saw happened to be an airport terminal :X (Corporate patronization of art of not, finding a 30 foot long Richard Serra sculpture at the foot of an escalator is quite a pleasant surprise).

Also, re: Newman (this made me at least smile)

http://www.peterholck.dk/images/Portr%C3%A6tserien/Barnet%20Newman%20portr%C3%A6t.%201996.%2065x65%20cm.%20Akryl%20p%C3%A5%20l%C3%A6rred..jpg

http://www.kuttnersiebert.de/artists/haggerty/pics/haggerty2010/hagg10-014-web.jpg

http://www.edithbaumannstudio.com/EarlierPaintings/bar/images/7_untitled.jpg

wait im just gonna stan for terry haggerty a lil more

http://curtisbaigent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/terry-haggerty_02.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OCYvd4pfT-g/SwLZITE0gSI/AAAAAAAAAyU/UxzB9IJ_jSY/s1600/TerryHaggerty-n%26u.jpg

srsly

Brasil!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-BSH_BgAs/SE00vPh28hI/AAAAAAAAA1E/G07_lt5YE6Q/s400/Helio+Oiticica+Women+Management+Blog.jpg
http://www.minusspace.com/logimages2008/moma-newperspectives.jpg
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2009dic/Helio-Oiticica-Grupo-Frente-24.jpg

A spot of Palazuelo iydm

http://www.artenovance.com/images/lithographie-estampe-originale-pablo-palazuelo-03_460.jpg

http://www.archeles.es/img/palazuelo_sig01_g.jpg http://www.archeles.es/img/palazuelo_sig02_g.jpg http://www.archeles.es/img/palazuelo_sig03_g.jpg

http://www.artespain.com/wp-content/uploads/palazuelo2.jpg

missing notable ilx poster plaxico

Lately, as in like, this year?

If you study art history in Canada, as I do, you hear about the VOF controversy non-stop. I actually had a class once that was solely dedicated to it.

― Garth December, virulent food critic (EDB), Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:01 PM (1 month ago)

i didn't mean the voices of fire controversy was recent. there have been calls for the director of the museum to resign and shit in the last year. its been all over the blogs. every country has a public uproar over meaningless modern art controversy (cf. the tate and equivalent vii for eg.) but the greg.org thing is really funny.

not so much that somebody "did their own newman" there's always some db, but the critical reception.

thats been bothering me. btw i'm going to this show tomorrow:

http://calgaryculture.com/content/softcore-hard-edge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCOn5q5QYc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCOn5q5QYc

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/2633d783.jpg

sherrie levine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGwbGjbtjQQ&feature

Ok wow this thread. I think I'm getting really into this sort of stuff.

how have i just now seen this thread??

http://www.kuttnersiebert.de/artists/haggerty/pics/haggerty2010/hagg10-002.jpg

what the fuck who is this tell me everything about this

http://boldongrey.at/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/gerwald_rockenschaub_01.jpg

Gerwald Rockenschaub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_9zr8whTw

I love plax. Also this thread. Also monochromes and hard edged abstraction.

Xpost: I saw Ray Gun Virus at the MOMA a few days ago. Absolutely mesmerizing. I love Sharits, and seeing his work in person, projected in full size, and in a dark room, with the sound of the projector there, is a totally different (i.e. much more affective) experience.

Also, really like these Glenn Ligon text-monochromes:

http://www.moma.org/images/dynamic_content/exhibition_page/25952.jpg

This is a much better image:

http://whitney.org/image_columns/0029/1753/stop-313_446.jpg

moma is where i saw ray gun virus too! totally amazing to me, really blew me away, was completely unaware of sharits before. Im working on a zine that im calling monochromes and each issue will have a different theme but the theme will always relate to the monochrome. Love those glenn ligon ones and i was gonna maybe do the next issue all about him. reading derrida for the first time and i always feel like, even though i've never really read much by derrida, that he's always on the periphery (lol) of how i think about things so, idk this sense of the palimpsest but also the raw remainder. like its so haunted by ab-ex, this all over abstraction but also explicitly textual and unearthing the implicitly textual in ab-ex, the guston-like skin: wounded, scarred, pillaged, and marked. and like blackness and racism and history and all that

but yeah monochromes especially have been on my mind a lot recently, also been thinking about certain lawrence wiener pieces in relation to this eg.

"Three minutes of forty-pound pressure spray of white highway paint upon a well-tended lawn
The lawn is allowed to grow and not tended until the grass is free of all vestiges of white highway paint"

and how that sort of simultaneously elides and converges w/ how i would think of say ellsworth kelly and the relationship w/e the optical, the immersive, the formal and the textual.

also this guy matys thursz that i came across in new york at the jewish museum:

"Ashes and Dust (1986-89) is part of Frederic Matys Thursz's series, Elegia Judaica, and serves as a memorial to his uncle Jakob Gutglas, who died in Dachau, and to other victims of the Nazis. Despite its monochromatic nature, the painting features the artist's complex palette and his method of glazing, scraping, and sometimes burning his medium. To create Ashes and Dust, Thursz (2930-1992) performed what he considered a a highly symbolic act: he charred organic material that he then used for his leaden-tone pigments. The artist once explained that the work was inspired by profoundly felt memories of his uncle: "I know that his ashes become my pigment, that his blood legacy is my . . . medium, and that his elegy is now my coherence.""

I mean this idea of the pure physical and the purely metaphysical and how they come into contact and this kindof eucaristic relationship between the two and like the idea of meaning coming about by a kindof transubstantiation is a pretty big part of the way i think about these things. btw dude is a balls to google but im hoping to do a bit of proper research as soon as i have dece library access, maybe gonna try and get a reading pass at the british library.

So I think I'm gonna try to write a thesis vaguely about this. I.e. not this per se so much as postmodern appropriations of post-painterly abstraction/minimal art, particularly vis a vis identity politics (a la FGT, Ligon, Roni Horn, etc.) so I encourage everyone to post relevant pictures to inspire me so I can write a good proposal and get funding! (is it worth making a separate ILE thread for this?)

http://www.corcoran.org/images/chris_martin_homepage.jpg

also edb im writing something at the moment about this too. wolfgang tillman's monochrome photographs are really interesting in this regard, you know the idea of the the pure sensuality of the undifferentiated colour field standing in for the negated image. and they're shiny, you can see yourself reflected in them. im thinking about queer abstraction, and how the appropriation of minimalism/high modernism is a kind of recoding or "passing" (FGT is so explicit about this, but yeah ligon and horn as well) and how that kindof passing has to exist in relation to the queer and the homophobic gaze. so its about fleeting glances. this is why i think there's a case to be made for ellsworth kelly as a queer artist. people talk about him as a really french painter because for him modernism begins with impressionism instead of most american painters where cubism is the axis, one way or the other .shit even like dan graham and richard serra are about bodies in space, space fragmenting; paul mccarthy is about the violence of gesture; kelly is about snatching glimpses reflected in the subway window, refracted light, the instantaneity of the image and how that renders it barely decipherable. i feel like the opacity of his surfaces have more to do with photography (light bouncing off an object or something) and how that fraction of a second is all you need looking back over your shoulder and making eye contact on rue st. honoré.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_matmuskyZk1qaxt8j.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_matno52ipa1qaxt8j.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9tvbspmc01qaxt8j.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9tve5IIOh1qaxt8j.jpg

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