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F. Schubert, Abstract Artist
Lately I’m a devoted listener of Schubert’s piano sonatas. A great model for abstraction. Intricate and intellectually formed throughout but non-conceptual, complex and multi-layered but accessible entirely through feeling, light and full of invented forms. If one could make paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Principles of Abstraction, Uncategorized
Tagged abstract art, abstraction, composition, music, Rodney Graham, time
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All of us
While ladies draw their stockings on The ladies they were are up and gone, I pen my lines, I finish, I scan them, I’m not the poet who began them. Each moment Time, the lord of changers, Stuffs our skin … Continue reading
A Critical Theory
In the Affendämmerung, or twilight of the apes, What is more fitting than that man should for reassurance turn to japes? In chaos sublunary What remains constant but buffoonery? Ogden Nash
Off the coast
Following from the previous post, the word “critique,” is very problematic. I doubt if anyone in the art world has any real idea what it means. It’s doubly difficult in that whoever thinks there is a stable meaning automatically misses … Continue reading
Modes of Dexterity
An Actor’s Life (R.Graham) An actor’s life, that’s the life for me Burnin’ up the scenery is really unique Hand dipped cigarillos and barrels, just barrels, of wine Do you think I like it? I like it, I like it … Continue reading
Art and The World
Literature is a four dimensional network of perspectives, especially useful when art is not the topic. Lately I’ve been enjoying Joseph Conrad, and think the following excerpt should be worth a smile at least: “Why must the sea be used … Continue reading
Posted in Abstraction and Society, Ethics of Abstraction, Uncategorized
Tagged abstract art, abstraction, backstory, literature, narrative, Rodney Graham, society
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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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