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Tag Archives: Mary Heilman
Light verse
Here is a new verse from Rodney Graham, a pantoum, a poetic form I am not familiar with: Tiergarten From the Zoologic Garden Strains of Regimental music One begs one’s pardon And adjusts one’s tunic Regimental music Stirring to the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Principles of Abstraction, Uncategorized
Tagged abstract art, abstraction, ambiguity, form, literature, Mary Heilman, meaning, Rodney Graham
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Decisiveness
Picasso’s great merit was decisiveness. Every gesture was clear, strong, and definitive. Every distortion was conscious, every departure from convention deliberate. Most of those decisions were within an acknowledged idiom, but some broke with the known. The combination of decisiveness … Continue reading
Posted in American Modernism, Principles of Abstraction, Uncategorized
Tagged abstract art, abstraction, feeling, knowledge, Mary Heilman, meaning
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A change of topic
After some thought I realize that I actually like Heilman’s work today and see no point in dwelling on the inadequacy of Dave Hickey or any of her other critics. Sitting in the studio last night I realized that one … Continue reading
Posted in Abstraction and Society, American Modernism, Uncategorized
Tagged abstract art, abstraction, literature, Mary Heilman, meaning, society, subjectivity
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Heilman’s critics
I want to express my disagreement with Heilman’s work, yet I find myself having to defend her from her admirers. She has taken a beating over the years, and suffered more than her share of critical neglect, yet today her … Continue reading
Mary Heilman
When I first discovered Mary Heilman’s work sometime in the early nineties, I right away felt that she was a major figure. I responded immediately to her sensibility, and she struck me as an artist of very sophisticated and knowing … Continue reading
Mitchell’s moments
Its seems that both Joan Mitchell and Mary Heilman are showing at Hauser and Wirth in London right now, in fact both of them are topics of intense discussion among the community interested in abstraction. I’m still working on my … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract art, abstraction, feeling, form, Joan Mitchell, knowledge, labor, Mary Heilman, nature, value
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Painterliness and meaning
It is possible that expressiveness in any art—musical, literary, visual, bodily—requires that the work refer to the world in some way. How it manages this is another question; it might be by analogy, depiction, mimesis, concept or any number of … Continue reading