I was talking to a retired gentleman and he said for years the academic painters like Bougereau were unseen and forgotten, and in the 1970s the museums dug them out again. Is the same thing happening now? I don't see the same connection between Bougereau and anything from the 70s that I see between color field and much contemp abstraction. As you point out here re: Chris Martin and others.
i have to believe mescaline is involved in some way - but then I'm a firm believer in "activated space."
I too studied under some geometric abstractionists - a severe lot - but also oddly bohemian - these are people who think the art market ruined art as a spiritual pursuit.
How many of them, though, were reaching for the brass ring when the floodgates were opened?
I see work like this as th eflotsam and jetsom of a lost kingdom.
Paul Feeley, at Matthew Marks. 
Chris Martin templates. 
Paul Feeley.
I was talking to a retired gentleman and he said for years the academic painters like Bougereau were unseen and forgotten, and in the 1970s the museums dug them out again. Is the same thing happening now? I don't see the same connection between Bougereau and anything from the 70s that I see between color field and much contemp abstraction. As you point out here re: Chris Martin and others.
ReplyDeletei have to believe mescaline is involved in some way - but then I'm a firm believer in "activated space."
ReplyDeleteI too studied under some geometric abstractionists - a severe lot - but also oddly bohemian - these are people who think the art market ruined art as a spiritual pursuit.
How many of them, though, were reaching for the brass ring when the floodgates were opened?
I see work like this as th eflotsam and jetsom of a lost kingdom.
Great works
ReplyDeleteChris Martin templates... hah, I get it! That's funny, and probably something he would own up to, I'm guessing.
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