tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post5658838980897675241..comments2024-03-26T10:07:14.049-04:00Comments on Painting: "The Humpty Dumpty effect": once the veneer of reality is broken in 20thc art by the analysis of the a priori visual structure that shapes that reality, the whole cannot be reconstructed.I accept this as having been inevitable but it still haunts me as the burden of the Modern condition.You can't go back to the garden.Martin Mugarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-21426046182015121812014-05-27T07:22:04.442-04:002014-05-27T07:22:04.442-04:00What haunts me still is the genesis of the Zombie ...What haunts me still is the genesis of the Zombie artists I write about in another blog post.There is none of the visual dynamic you find in Mondrian or in Abstract Expressionism.What if its origins are elsewhere.Boris Groys in his discussion of Malevich points to him as a possible source..The absolute supremacy of his forms destroys the visual language of the past and gives us a new language grounded on nothing but itself.It is supposed to embody the revolution of the working class that erases the past. Mondrian comes to his abstraction via a reduction of perception that drags the past along with it in the form of warms and cools and push and pull.These zombie artist are in the Malevich strain of abstraction.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.com