Gallery 10 artist Claudia Vess wants to talk about this article.
Quasi-PaintingCurated by Cara Ober
(read more from Cara Ober on her BLOG.)
Painting has been dead for over a century, yet artists keep making them. Despite the invention of photography, video, and digital art, painting still remains a vital method of present-day artistic expression.
Even in a Post-Greenburgian era, full of dire predictions from critics, painting continues to be an important component of the vocabulary of contemporary art. The main appeal of painting lies in its inherent physical qualities: both liquid and solid, it forces its practitioner to think spatially and abstractly, rather than in a linear way. This immediate access to color, light, atmosphere, and form is as important as the product of such thinking.
Painters tend to think globally, to see the big picture rather than in parts, and to rely on experience and intuition, rather than logic. As shape and space merge in the mind of a painter, physical and emotional sensations combine into a one-of-a-kind product, which visually references the artist's hand, brain, and heart.
Even in photographs, prints, drawing, and sculpture, a painterly sensibility often persists in modern modes of thinking. Despite new tools and technologies, which promise to render physical painting obsolete, the liquid, nonverbal thought process seems to grow.
Painterly thinking is evident in cinematography, in theatre, in contemporary art, in bio-chemistry, literature, and education, as well as in other multidisciplinary fields.
In Quasi-Painting, I have chosen to exhibit nine emerging artists together, not necessarily because they make artwork with paint, but because they share a painterly sensibility, expressed nine different ways.
Pursuing her wish to talk about this article Claudia sent the article to Anne Banks, another Gallery 10 artist. Anne responded.
Dear Claudia, I like your idea of talking about painting....
And anyone who paints does not think that painting will ever be obsolete because it is so personal and connected to thoughts and emotions, like poetry.
Also like drawing, painting is not dependent on technology per se....It comes straight from the right brain, except of course when there is a grand scheme involved.
The criteria of excellence for painting, composition, etc are the same for design, Architecture and the arts in general, so it sometimes gets confusing..The same general standards about what makes any art good are valid in spite of the different media....We could have a discussion about what these criteria ARE, especially in recent contemporary art!!!
I am struggling with some of these ideas in my web site http://www.designer-artbanks.com/ Best, Anne=
What do you think? You can join the discussion by leaving a comment.
Quasi-PaintingCurated by Cara Ober
(read more from Cara Ober on her BLOG.)
Painting has been dead for over a century, yet artists keep making them. Despite the invention of photography, video, and digital art, painting still remains a vital method of present-day artistic expression.
Even in a Post-Greenburgian era, full of dire predictions from critics, painting continues to be an important component of the vocabulary of contemporary art. The main appeal of painting lies in its inherent physical qualities: both liquid and solid, it forces its practitioner to think spatially and abstractly, rather than in a linear way. This immediate access to color, light, atmosphere, and form is as important as the product of such thinking.
Painters tend to think globally, to see the big picture rather than in parts, and to rely on experience and intuition, rather than logic. As shape and space merge in the mind of a painter, physical and emotional sensations combine into a one-of-a-kind product, which visually references the artist's hand, brain, and heart.
Even in photographs, prints, drawing, and sculpture, a painterly sensibility often persists in modern modes of thinking. Despite new tools and technologies, which promise to render physical painting obsolete, the liquid, nonverbal thought process seems to grow.
Painterly thinking is evident in cinematography, in theatre, in contemporary art, in bio-chemistry, literature, and education, as well as in other multidisciplinary fields.
In Quasi-Painting, I have chosen to exhibit nine emerging artists together, not necessarily because they make artwork with paint, but because they share a painterly sensibility, expressed nine different ways.
Pursuing her wish to talk about this article Claudia sent the article to Anne Banks, another Gallery 10 artist. Anne responded.
Dear Claudia, I like your idea of talking about painting....
And anyone who paints does not think that painting will ever be obsolete because it is so personal and connected to thoughts and emotions, like poetry.
Also like drawing, painting is not dependent on technology per se....It comes straight from the right brain, except of course when there is a grand scheme involved.
The criteria of excellence for painting, composition, etc are the same for design, Architecture and the arts in general, so it sometimes gets confusing..The same general standards about what makes any art good are valid in spite of the different media....We could have a discussion about what these criteria ARE, especially in recent contemporary art!!!
I am struggling with some of these ideas in my web site http://www.designer-artbanks.com/ Best, Anne=
What do you think? You can join the discussion by leaving a comment.
2 comments:
well these paintings are so so fun.
artist
Some Run on Thoughts about the Quasi -Painting Article
I’m always suspicious with the pronouncement that painting is dead. The only thing it shows is that promoting one form of artistic medium over another is meaningless. It’s just as short sighted as those who can’t open their minds to new forms. We all have our prejudices in these areas, but with time we begin to accept the new media.
Many painters have never accepted printmaking because they get hung up on the multiple reproduction aspect and see it as a mechanical function without appreciation of inherent beauty of the medium that can be achieved.
There are many ways for artists to make marks-some of the most wonderful work is done with a simple pencil-it can be the closest thing a viewer can have with artist’s hand.
The idea that painting is not logical is questionable. I doubt that those who use perspective in their paintings would consider what they are doing without a logical conclusion to their objective.
All media is built on experimentation and new forms emerge. -lucy b.
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