Happy Birthday from Noddy and all his Toyland friends!
Saturday 11 August 2007
Wednesday 8 August 2007
Leon Golub
Leon Golub was born in Chicago in 1922 and died in NYC today in 2004. He was a prolific painter and married to the artist Nancy Spero with whom he also collaborated.
When I was a fellow at FAWC we went to visit them to give them an honorary medal and they graciously had us all over at their loft/home/studio in Manhattan. Leon talked to us as Nancy was ill at the time. One of the things I remember vividly was the way he saw himself as giving us advice or words for the journey as an artist. He especially spoke of how it was a roller coaster ride from start to finish even at his advanced age and level of success, i.e. recognition. And that you had to have nerves of steel to be able to be tenacious on that ride of all rides! Being an artist.
Leon Golub with his painting Prometheus.
When I was a fellow at FAWC we went to visit them to give them an honorary medal and they graciously had us all over at their loft/home/studio in Manhattan. Leon talked to us as Nancy was ill at the time. One of the things I remember vividly was the way he saw himself as giving us advice or words for the journey as an artist. He especially spoke of how it was a roller coaster ride from start to finish even at his advanced age and level of success, i.e. recognition. And that you had to have nerves of steel to be able to be tenacious on that ride of all rides! Being an artist.
Leon Golub with his painting Prometheus.
Monday 6 August 2007
In 1928 in Pittsburg, Pa. today...
...Andy Warhol was born.
I saw the Rorschach paintings by Andy Warhol in 1996 at Gagosian in NYC. They interested me more than many of his other works. He had intended to read things into them and then write about it. However he did not have the time and then thought someone else could pretend to be him and do it instead, saying that it would be more interesting...Typical Andy! As a whole the show was powerful just by the sheer impact of all these large monochrome paintings that were abstract but not simultaneously.
Rorschach 1996.
Rorschach 1984.
Andy Warhol aka Andrew Warhola.
He became one of the most prominent artists of the 20th Century by embracing popular media fully and transforming art as we knew it until then. Warhol gave birth to art as commodity in a big way.
I saw the Rorschach paintings by Andy Warhol in 1996 at Gagosian in NYC. They interested me more than many of his other works. He had intended to read things into them and then write about it. However he did not have the time and then thought someone else could pretend to be him and do it instead, saying that it would be more interesting...Typical Andy! As a whole the show was powerful just by the sheer impact of all these large monochrome paintings that were abstract but not simultaneously.
Rorschach 1996.
Rorschach 1984.
Andy Warhol aka Andrew Warhola.
He became one of the most prominent artists of the 20th Century by embracing popular media fully and transforming art as we knew it until then. Warhol gave birth to art as commodity in a big way.
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