tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post5048243776983018928..comments2024-03-28T10:20:16.157-07:00Comments on Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Ripping YarnsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post-90031440254573198932010-03-02T08:41:48.373-08:002010-03-02T08:41:48.373-08:00Painting had not yet gotten to the point of being ...Painting had not yet gotten to the point of being life expressive purely through visual means, which may have started with Corot and Barbizon through Impressionism, but not truly developed til the Post-Impressionists and Modernism.<br /><br /> A motif had to dominate, it was how it was presented, using the entire space, and bringing it forward into ones life, rather than receding into a seperate space and world as illustration does. Creating a design, a pattern revealing the integration of god, man, and nature. Poetically and musically, not as individually dominated prosaic self glorification.<br /><br />Homer frontalizes the picture plane with red blood splashes all over the water, obviously a few have been gobbled up with the 'negro" awaiting his fate. Like the white man in the ship is gonna save him, LOL! Not like Watson, and the reason Jim Brown stopped making movies.<br /><br />Fitzwilliam's recedes into the distant in a tableau, like viewing a exhibit at the Natural History Museum. Though the bears head looks like a wolf wearing a combed fur parka. Realism always reveals the existence of mans hand and attempt to capture reality. And so is fantasy, not reflective of the world around us. Hollywood does this much better, illusion their trade, as Night in the Museum shows. <br /><br />True creative artists have always look for the universal, but through the filter of their own experiences, which if truly intelligent and connected to life, will be shared among all humanity. But what, no Whistlers? Too European, with Japanese influence? Still American, as much as Ben Franklin who spent so much time there as well. Got Cassatt, couldnt afford the Whistlers? <br /><br />The Deas are kinda interesting, on a par with Parrish and Wyeth, surprised they aren't there too. No more fantasy based than this, though more European in subject matter. Andrew of course would dominate, but after this period. His fields are like "Veteran in a new field", and shares its sprituality with Anselm Kiefer's works of devastation, and the glimmer of rebirth. God, and nature seemingly destroyed by man, yet watching, eternal,waiting for mankind to rejoin them.<br /><br />Interesting show, one all artists should view, and then ask themselves, why? What is my purpose? How do I follow Truth? How do I visualize this eternal trinity, which are truly one? Is it about me, or us? We must all answer that in our own ways, but there is only one answer, Purpose. do we have one? What is mine? <br /><br />art collegia delenda estDonald Frazellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438703089946598999noreply@blogger.com