--- Dragonfly Dream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Diebenkorn > > I had many meetings with Diebenkorn in the 60/61 school year at California School of Fine Arts, 800 Chestnut. SF, CA. I had a good time. I knew right away that there was little serious going on there.
Diebenkorn insisted that he didn't know about art: "Perhaps I don't know about art." That was the only thing I ever heard him utter in many critiques I attended. He looked! He looked and pulled at his GIANT eyebrows and then that one line, and he would leave. It was unbelievably expensive; that one line. Some teacher I had busted my ass to study with. It reminds me Of Neri's inconclusive references to this junk and that junk, comparing all the results from a particular exercise. It was all junk as he expressed himself. A line I got from Bischof; Its just right to go back into. What a great line. I use it often. He used it because he was often speechless. Words seemed to flee from him as wild horses running over the dunes. I use the line because I see the contrast spread is thin and the shape structures are all the same and there is unclear overlap in the spacial array. Or worse, mixed motives in the marking patterns. OH! It looks just right to go back into. And then do a diversion into some boring story about my student contact with Bischof. Diebenkorn seemed least informed and least articulate of all. The blessing in the interaction is knowing that Art Stars are stars for something other than what they know about making an artifact. In a way all artifacts are equal. I happen to like those that are full of visual cues. I couldn't find out about visual cues from the people at CSFA. Diebenkorn added his prestige to the murkiness and opacity of the whole educational process. ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
