My influencers and why - a brief list
So I've been thinking about artists who are interesting to me and have guided me through formative times in my art viewing, so below is a list - really a begining of a list as this changes almost daily or hourly.
Neal Jenny: in particular "the bad paintings"
Anselm Keifer: While attending the Greman expressionist show at the Corcoran in 1985, Bernard Welt leans over my shoulder after looking at a painting covered with hay and says "Thats what I call color field painting."
Jasper Johns: Say what you will about his later work and his "canonization" of being the best post-war painter ever, it's probably true.
Ed Ruscha: How can anyone be as cool as his work?
Robert Mangold: his precision and color work is amazing
Robert Ryman: his simple engineering or re-enginerring of the painting continues to be interesting to me - I'm less concerned about the reductive qualities of the work as I am the possiblities of where else he could possibly take this work.
Stuart Davis: Because there are days where I think he is responible for any new approach to painting in the last 50 years.
Gene Davis: Because he was local, because he made some really smart paintings that are quoted still.
However one thing that most of these artists share is a simplicity and power to the work they do - I wouldn't dare call them minimalists (except for the ones that are) but they share (for the most part) a stripped down approach to subject matter and presentation.
One last thing - this comes from Pitchfork - even though its about the "new" indie rock it could almost be about painting and street art as well.
"This decade's indie-kid rhetoric is all about excitement, all about fun, all about fierce. The season's buzz tour pairs M.I.A. with LCD Soundsystem, scrappy globo-pop with the kind of rock disco that tries awfully hard to blow fuses. The venues they don't hit will play host to a new wave of stylish guitar bands, playing stylish uptempo pop, decamping to stylish afterparties. Bloggers will chatter about glittery chart hits, rock kids will buy vintage metal t-shirts and act like heshers, eggheads will rave about the latest in spazzed-out noise, and everyone will keep talking about dancing, right down to the punks. Yeah, there are more exceptions than there are examples-- when aren't there, dude?-- but the vibe is all there: We keep talking like we want action, like we want something explosive."
Neal Jenny: in particular "the bad paintings"
Anselm Keifer: While attending the Greman expressionist show at the Corcoran in 1985, Bernard Welt leans over my shoulder after looking at a painting covered with hay and says "Thats what I call color field painting."
Jasper Johns: Say what you will about his later work and his "canonization" of being the best post-war painter ever, it's probably true.
Ed Ruscha: How can anyone be as cool as his work?
Robert Mangold: his precision and color work is amazing
Robert Ryman: his simple engineering or re-enginerring of the painting continues to be interesting to me - I'm less concerned about the reductive qualities of the work as I am the possiblities of where else he could possibly take this work.
Stuart Davis: Because there are days where I think he is responible for any new approach to painting in the last 50 years.
Gene Davis: Because he was local, because he made some really smart paintings that are quoted still.
However one thing that most of these artists share is a simplicity and power to the work they do - I wouldn't dare call them minimalists (except for the ones that are) but they share (for the most part) a stripped down approach to subject matter and presentation.
One last thing - this comes from Pitchfork - even though its about the "new" indie rock it could almost be about painting and street art as well.
"This decade's indie-kid rhetoric is all about excitement, all about fun, all about fierce. The season's buzz tour pairs M.I.A. with LCD Soundsystem, scrappy globo-pop with the kind of rock disco that tries awfully hard to blow fuses. The venues they don't hit will play host to a new wave of stylish guitar bands, playing stylish uptempo pop, decamping to stylish afterparties. Bloggers will chatter about glittery chart hits, rock kids will buy vintage metal t-shirts and act like heshers, eggheads will rave about the latest in spazzed-out noise, and everyone will keep talking about dancing, right down to the punks. Yeah, there are more exceptions than there are examples-- when aren't there, dude?-- but the vibe is all there: We keep talking like we want action, like we want something explosive."
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