Does socialism (in art)have to be low-skilled and dumbed-down and does this mean that my dot pictures are consequently non-progressive shadows of works done by the likes of Warhol, Hirst and Koons?
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Nov
18
Gerhard Richer’s exhibition at Tate Modern: Panorama, rather than the communist manifesto. However, after looking at the blurred images, dragged paint, glass and mirrors you are left with a definite sense of everything melting if not actually into air.
First thoughts on exiting: everything is hazy, unfocused and smudged. It is as if Richter is uncommitted [...]
Nov
18
It is of the utmost importance that we repeat our mistakes as a reminder to future generations of the depth of our stupidity.
Nov
14
To quote Robert Peston from ‘Who Runs Britain’ p.255:
“What has happened to corporate pension funds reflects a change in the culture of the United Kingdom, the abandonment of the notion that companies have a moral obligation to promote the welfare of their employees after a lifetime of service. It is part and parcel of the [...]
Nov
05
Often a term used for describing auditors and accountants that now seems to apply to our political leaders too. According to Paul Mason in his report for BBC Newsnight last night (01-11-2011) we need a political class prepared to take risks.
However, you need a vision and conviction in that vision to be prepared to risk [...]
Oct
17
Vincent van Gogh, long held as a paradigm of the troubled painter and tortured soul may have been shot dead by a teenager and not ended his own life.
If this is true and the myth and what it means to be a great artist changes, will we see hoardes of troubled artists baiting ‘gangsta’ [...]
Oct
07
Panorama is now open at Tate Modern. Spanning his life’s achievement (so far), photo realism, abstract and chance. Can’t wait to get to see this.
Descibed on Newsnight’s Late Review last week as a painter’s painter, my immediate reaction to this is ‘Yes’. I’ve always admired his technique and ability to use photo-realism to make documentary-like [...]
Oct
07
Just back from the opening of Nottingham castle annual open. First and foremost, congratulations to everyone who got their work selected. From the point of view of someone whose application was unsuccessful, your all winners!
If you don’t know, the annual open is exactly that. Artists based in the Midlands are invited to submit their art [...]
Oct
02
Just a random musing on this afternoon’s trip to the supermarket. Passed the time seeing what my fellow shoppers were putting in their trolleys. More than once did I notice 2 litre bottles of coke nestling alongside little pile of weight-watchers ready meals. Corporate shamanics.
Sep
24
Just watching the review of the new exhibition on postmodernism. The co-curator (Jane Pavitt) emphasises the style and energy it had. In fact, style seems to have become the defining factor.
This is a far cry from It’s incarnation when I was at college. By then it was all about references to anything obscure, bordering on [...]
