Newer work. Sumi ink on paper.
If you are only moved by color relationships [in my paintings], you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
—Mark Rothko (via yama-bato)
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The beginning of the end. I am making a “post painterly” abstract triptych based on the separation of Rangi and Papa by Tane!! (which is the Maori creation myth)
Shrine. Acrylic and graphite on canvas and wood. 22 1/4”x48”. 2011. This piece was selected as Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus’ entry to the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges 2012 Student Art Show.
From your description, and from what I know of your previous work and your ability; the work you are doing sounds very good “Drawing-clean-clear but crazy like machines, larger and bolder… real nonsense.” That sounds fine, wonderful – real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever – make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you – draw & paint your fear and anxiety. And stop worrying about big, deep things such as “to decide on a purpose and way of life, a consistent approach to even some impossible end or even an imagined end” You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO!
—Letter from Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse (via artistandstudio)
Eva Hesse (1936-1970) standing with her work
In response to one of my professors telling me that my “ambitions don’t match my talents”, and then telling me that I need to be more “spontaneous” with my art, I’ve decided two things. One:I am going to do eight weeks of figure drawing this summer. Two: I’ve embarked on a series of “spontaneous” paintings on paper, based on nothing at all.
(The above pictures is of “The Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp.)
Photograph from ‘The 20 July Aachen 1964’. FLUXUS action in the large auditorium of the Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany. Bloody nose and all, this is such a fantastic photo of Joseph Beuys, who I’ve recently come to admire greatly.
The Deep by Jackson Pollock 1953. (This is the only Pauly Pollock painting I actually enjoy.)
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