Lester Johnson: Dark Paintings Stephen Harvey Fine Art Projects Through November 17, 2013
To create oneself through the process of making an object is an ethical act of decision making and passion, thought the painter Barnett Newman, who in 1947 outlined this philosophical position in a short essay titled "The First Man Was an Artist." Newman wrote that early Homo sapiens had become something more, something human, by asserting themselves not through the making of objects for some use, but through the creation of objects for poetic, aesthetic expression, which he said was the purer, superior act. "Man’s hand," he said, "traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin." It is therefore more human, from Newman's point of view, to draw a line in aesthetic wonder, as it demonstrates Man's tragic separateness from others in the world through so doing.
To create oneself through the process of making an object is an ethical act of decision making and passion, thought the painter Barnett Newman, who in 1947 outlined this philosophical position in a short essay titled "The First Man Was an Artist." Newman wrote that early Homo sapiens had become something more, something human, by asserting themselves not through the making of objects for some use, but through the creation of objects for poetic, aesthetic expression, which he said was the purer, superior act. "Man’s hand," he said, "traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin." It is therefore more human, from Newman's point of view, to draw a line in aesthetic wonder, as it demonstrates Man's tragic separateness from others in the world through so doing.
- 11/14/2013
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Georg Baselitz Gagosian Gallery Through April 7, 2012
"Art demands fanaticism" -- Adolf Hitler, 1915
Georg Baselitz's (born 1938, Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany) recent work at Gagosian, paintings on a monumental scale, presents the artist as a still-vital explorer, using both his personal history as well as myriad art historical references in a search for a unified, iconic image. Enormous canvases, measuring over twelve feet high, combine elements from his early works, such as "Die grosse Nacht im Eimer" (1962–63) and "A Modern Painter" (1966), remixed in a gambit designed to distance himself still further from the nearly thirty-year span of his signature, inverted, pseudo-Ab Ex work. A sense of nostalgia and reflection is evident here, as well as an undiminished appetite for new forms and styles.
Of these pieces, Baselitz says, "I don't want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition,...
"Art demands fanaticism" -- Adolf Hitler, 1915
Georg Baselitz's (born 1938, Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany) recent work at Gagosian, paintings on a monumental scale, presents the artist as a still-vital explorer, using both his personal history as well as myriad art historical references in a search for a unified, iconic image. Enormous canvases, measuring over twelve feet high, combine elements from his early works, such as "Die grosse Nacht im Eimer" (1962–63) and "A Modern Painter" (1966), remixed in a gambit designed to distance himself still further from the nearly thirty-year span of his signature, inverted, pseudo-Ab Ex work. A sense of nostalgia and reflection is evident here, as well as an undiminished appetite for new forms and styles.
Of these pieces, Baselitz says, "I don't want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition,...
- 3/7/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
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