Past Echoes The chapter opens up with a direct and forward discussion about our current cultural portrayal of death, and how this is “endlessly in the media but in real life is hidden away in hospices and nursing homes…” One of the roles of art has always been to bring discussion and understanding of death,… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 10: Death and Life
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Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 8: Painting Space
Experience of Space The chapter opens up with an important distinction between place and space: “place is where we stand at a particular moment in time, space is everything else.” Throughout the history of painting, creating spacial illusion was key to developing a believable ‘window to the world’ effect. In contemporary painting, exploration of spacial… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 8: Painting Space
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction
Finding Identity Reading Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction in Painting Today was akin to a metaphysical trip through my own mind. I related to many of the key concepts discussed behind abstraction and its keen ability to retain “the integrity of the human hand, and thus the integrity of the human identity.” Unlike in Chapter 5,… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 5: Pure Abstraction
Pathos Pure Abstraction is slightly less broad then the single word Abstraction, and yet it encompasses many levels of visual constructs through surface, materials, and process. Chapter 5 in Painting Today, coins this term for abstract work that explores the physical tendencies of paint along with a less expected idea, one which critics… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 5: Pure Abstraction
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 3: Neo-Expressionism
Appropriation Neo-Expressionism is known for it’s “exaggeration, heightened colors, myth and personal imagery.” This period of time throughout the 80’s in painting, rose heavy debate and many important questions. These artists were following a time when absolute abstraction, the all-over principle of Jackson Pollock, and the idea that art is an object that… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 3: Neo-Expressionism
Kal L. Cloonan 