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Friday, December 31. 2010

Orderly and non-spontaneous expression

Our family likes de Kooning, so we'll probably go to the the current show at the MOMA. Here's a brief review of Abstract Expressionist New York. I am still annoyed that we missed the Kandinsky show at the Guggenheim - lines to get in were always too long for me.

Even if I don't really get Jackson Pollock, we'll get a very good lunch someplace.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:47 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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I have this pretention of being sensitive to art and artists in most genres, but I just don't get abstract expressionism. I can understand the classical definition, but the definition and the product just don't seem to mesh.

For example, de Kooning. His work is certainly attractive in terms of color spectrum, but what exactly is being "expressed"? Is it the layered technique that is attractive? What does it speak to? I feel the same way about most abstract expressionists - I just don't get it.

Then again, I'm kind of literal minded. :>)

#1 Tom Francis on 2010-12-31 15:30 (Reply)

Bird Dog ... Whatever happened to the Russian Tea Room? Back before the Fall of Rome, when I was a student at Columbia, it used to be a treat we gave ourselves to have lunch there after we'd been to the Museum.

Marianne

#2 Marianne Matthews on 2010-12-31 15:59 (Reply)

Just re-opened after having been closed for years.

#2.1 Bird Dog on 2010-12-31 16:26 (Reply)

What is there to get about Pollack? It's a splat. He never claimed to have a message in anything he did. He just thought what he did was cool to look at.

#3 ccoffer on 2011-01-01 00:17 (Reply)

Overgrown children playing with paint instead of ketchup.

It became popular because the large, aimless canvases worked well in the lobbies of the large, characterless skyscrapers of the time.

#4 Ben David on 2011-01-01 12:32 (Reply)

Hmmm. Sounds about right.

#4.1 Bird Dog on 2011-01-01 16:38 (Reply)

LOL!!! That is spot on! It's what you get when art devolved into mere fashion.

#4.2 Phil g on 2011-01-01 18:26 (Reply)

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