Dragonfl,
Thank you for listing me as one of your favorites. some of mine... well
always been fond of Duchamp... and Joseph Beuys.... I also like Christo... as
an art student at CalStU Sacramento I helped work with a bunch of other people
on the Running Fence.... and had the priviledge of meeting Richard
Diebenkorn....Also like Rauschenburg... jasper johns and their connection with
John Cage/Merce Cunningham and the whole Black Mountain College clan.... it is
interesting to note that Ray Johnson was a student at Black Mountain
College..... I guess Duchamp and Beuys had the greatest influence on me...
especially Beuys when I was doing a lot of performance art... also fluxus
influences.. yoko ono!!!
now I like Elvis on Velvet painting! :)... Just kidding!
John
Dragonfly Dream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 22, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Reid Wood wrote:
Dragonfly-
>You've opened up a potentially year-long discussion with this first
paragraph.
Yeah, that would be nice! I really do love to have these conversations.
>A question - you said as a young adult, you didn't get the work at the
Whitney. Do you now (I'm sure you still fit in the young adult category)?
LOL, yes, I am not quite yet 50, so still young, eh? As for "getting" the
art at the Whitney, well, umm, some I get, some I don't. A couple of years back
I was able to attend the biennial there and saw all kinds of wonderful odd art.
The place was packed and so it was heard to see much of anything really. I
recall a wall piece that were words taped formed by burned matches taped on the
wall. I actually liked this and even thought about doing something like that as
mail art.
> Yes, Tintoretto, Bellini, Raphael, Leonard and the like created some
beautiful paintings. Of that group I like some of those artists better than
others and some of their paintings better than others. Even at that time there
were artists who felt that they needed to break away from the style of the High
Renaissance, and so you have styles like Mannerism. It seems by the artists you
mentioned and the more contemporary examples from the Whitney you alluded to
you place a high value on illusionistic rendering as a determinant for what is
art. Is that true, or am I reading too much into your examples?
I was just siting some of those incredible artists I was able to view as a
kid. My almost 46 year old self likes stuff more on the contemporary side.
Folks like the following wet my whistle and fan my fires..
Christo
Helen Frankenthaler
Wiliem de Kooning
Richard Diebenkorn
Jim Dine
Red Grooms
Keith Harring
Louise Nevelson
Claes Oldenburg
Robert Rauschenburg
Mark Rothko
of course the list could go on and on, and let me not forget to mention some
of my other favorites below!
Lena Bartula -mixed media and installation artist
John Chiaromonte - mixed media artist
Alexandra Eldridge -mixed media artist
Cynthia Fusillo -mixed media and installation artist
Jorge Leyva -painter
K. Moss -collage, art dolls, beaded jewelry
Darlene Olivia McElroy -mixed media and collage
Cris Parks -fluid painting
Check me out!
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