it's on
Lately artists who don't paint have been enjoying taking subtle jabs at painting by saying to me "I wish I was a painter, it's just so easy", and "it only takes, like, 20 minutes to install your show", and "all you have to do is make it and people come and buy it from you".
I don't think young artists realize that they may be simply regurgitating the hackneyed rhetoric of an older generation of conceptual artists, and yeah, as a painter, it's getting old. And yeah, these conversattions provide fodder for a less demanding brain, they offer nothing fresh to the discourse, and totally ignore a huge chunk of new and interesting contemporary art, and also display a neglect for the possibilities of the tactile experience that art provides.
Painting Still Lively in the 21st Century, NY Times, March 26th, 2010
The Long Jump by Carl Lewis by Henry Taylor
I don't think young artists realize that they may be simply regurgitating the hackneyed rhetoric of an older generation of conceptual artists, and yeah, as a painter, it's getting old. And yeah, these conversattions provide fodder for a less demanding brain, they offer nothing fresh to the discourse, and totally ignore a huge chunk of new and interesting contemporary art, and also display a neglect for the possibilities of the tactile experience that art provides.
Painting Still Lively in the 21st Century, NY Times, March 26th, 2010
The Long Jump by Carl Lewis by Henry Taylor
posted by narangkar at
10:15 AM
4 Comments:
Aha. Reminds me of proclamations of the "death of the guitar", which was immediately followed by GRUNGE, but nevermind that, literally. Now that i think about it, the guitar & the trappings of painting are very similar in terms of the apparent ease that haters have in dismissing them. Teenage boy picks up magical penis instrument, strums away & all of a sudden a new class of girls want to get to know him. Painting, very similar, as painting is the most ART of ART, even if conceptual art is actually more ART in terms of its distance from reality or whatever. Hmmm. I always found conceptual artists get alot of flack though, for not actually making anything, which is just another dismissal.
right, or what it takes to even begin to work, store, care for & transport one's works! But, the call of the artist today is Celebrity and "If It's Easy," not actual personal vision.
This was a great addendum to the article you posted. But, as someone else pointed out, the slideshow of the last 10 years was ALL portrait/illustrative, thus siphoning still the Public's view of What Painting Is into a real narrow cup, almost ghettoizing it even further. Even though there are good works represented, it could have been more varied.
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