The joyful surrealism of postmodern expressionism
Art can actually be about increasing the quality of life, and that’s what we think this does. This is why career as a postmodern image is so unattractive and unfulfilling.
Art can actually be about increasing the quality of life, and that’s what we think this does. This is why career as a postmodern image is so unattractive and unfulfilling.
Postmodern expressionist images often underestimate their own potential and achievements. Engaging with the idea that images can function as backdrops onto which viewers designate context, scrappy sketches are able to capture a mood and express a message without being explicit.
The end is not the end. Cleopatra is dead as a dodo, her art is a revolt against death, as kitschy ideas that are not ironic. It’s a dying art form, there’s a community of people that want to keep it alive, and science is along for the ride.
He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive. People die, but art never dies. Life is a play in which we all have our own role.
Seneca
Give me to drink mandragora that I might sleep out this great gap of time, my Antony is away.
Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra.
Painting was declared dead by critics and artists, not for Nyx and Nemesis, technology killing creativity.
Hans Belting (The end of art history), L'histoire de l'art est-elle finie? The magic is in unexpected details. Stripes always do something.
Compared to woodcut and copperplate engraving which required more work, etching offered greater scope for artistic experimentation and creative freedom. Copper plate etchings made with printmaker snails.
We are trapped in our past, filtered through the museums of the present. Meaningful pictures depict the fundamental human search for transcendence in the light of mortality. Used to be only for decorative purpose, but if old enough, it's great art because if something works, even an iconoclast inkblot, it becomes more beautiful. Technology kills creativity?
This is how it is now, post modernist expressionism can save the world. But either you get screwed around by critics or you get shadowbanned on social media. Your pick.
It is hope that maintains most of mankind, not weeping girls bending under weeping willows. Truths whose thick veil Science has drawn aside? In this way, Wednesday’s drawing of Typhos was, for Medusa, a stroke of luck.
In life beauty perishes, but not in art, the ends justify the means.
Leonardo da Vinci
Where does a painting movement actually finish, when artworks combining art and biology add an intriguing wrinkle to the story of artistic evolution.
Death of painting drawing the end of art. It is clear that there is more than a kernel of truth to the notion that silly thoughts are intrinsic to the manufacturing of whimsy art. There is something ghostly in all great art (Lafcadio Hearn).
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow,
Shakespeare, The tragedy of Macbeth, Scene V; Shakespeare is still relevant because we have not changed as people. Art is all the stuff that makes our civilization work.
No society will ever survive if its art dies.
Ernst Gombrich
For a statistician, life and death are synonyms, check it by looking for "life insurance" on the internet. Life is a metaphor for death. Postmodern expressionism is a metaphor. Infrastructure is civilization.
I want to murder painting.
Joan Miró
What happened to the notion that all artworks appreciate in value? History, it seems, is always ending today. But new shoots can grow out of ashes. In short, traditional art making may never recover, so we may owe these rogue artworks a measure of gratitude.
I am old and ill, and I have sworn to die painting (Paul Cézanne).
Is painting dead? The end is not the end, this is the beauty of the element odduckium. Nature is so reassuringly incredible, most things in life, have to be cultivated. You can't kill what has already died, with a freedom of mark making rooted in improvisation, playing upon memory and layers of time.
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
Hilton Kramer, We will find out what happened. As Kienholz claimed, "all my work has to do with living and dying, our fear of death."
That was the beginning of the end.
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