tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post6624091796904010511..comments2024-03-26T10:07:14.049-04:00Comments on Painting: Can you jump out of "Enframement"? Or is everything just mostly post modern?Martin Mugarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-72086286382124145182023-12-25T06:09:48.368-05:002023-12-25T06:09:48.368-05:00My latest insight into my work is how deeply does ...My latest insight into my work is how deeply does cognition go in each painting. I can see a huge difference in the 2018 painting and subsequent paintings. Each stroke is more thought out or felt.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-24344994530344404372023-08-21T10:02:06.061-04:002023-08-21T10:02:06.061-04:00"Nice piece, by the way. Text, peeking. Groun..."Nice piece, by the way. Text, peeking. Ground margins. Geometry tweaking. " <br />Accurate words on my work by Dennis Hollingsworth who is being referred to on his site in the past tense. I remember when Mark Gottsegen stopped responding to my blogposts. He was interested in Monadology by giving weight and presence to the individual markDennis Hollingsworthhttp://www.dennishollingsworth.us/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-2530759237713831422023-04-26T08:50:35.485-04:002023-04-26T08:50:35.485-04:00https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Provisionality-Contemp...https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Provisionality-Contemporary-Art-Aesthetics/dp/135024371X mentioned chapter 4Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-27641603282250951392023-04-26T08:34:26.749-04:002023-04-26T08:34:26.749-04:00I never realized that Raphael Rubinstein apprecia...I never realized that Raphael Rubinstein appreciated my connection of his provisional painting to Vattimo's "weak thought" <br /><br />Weak Thought, Strong Painting<br />(Gianni Vattimo)<br />In a 2014 post titled "The nihilist condition and provisional painting à la<br />Rubinstein," artist-blogger Martin Mugar confessed to being "astonished" that<br />I didn't mention nihilism in my two articles on Provisional Painting, adding<br />that Gianni Vattimo's "weak thought' would be a perfect concept to encapsulate<br />where painting is in Rubinstein's provisional world." Although I had been<br />aware of Vattimo's ideas since I encountered Arte Debole, an early 1990s<br />movement inspired by his work, I confess that as of 2009 I had yet to read any<br />of his writings (a failing since corrected). Vattimo's absence from my articles<br />meant that I missed the opportunity to weave my ideas about provisionality<br />into current philosophical debate, and vice versa. In a belated effort to make<br />up for that lacuna, let me attempt, as briefly as possible, to outline Vattimo's<br />concept of "weak thought" as it might apply to painting and to art in general<br />When Vattimo was a professor of aesthetics at the University of Turin<br />in the late 1970s, a number of his students who had been arrested for their<br />alleged involvement with Italian "extra-parliamentary" leftist movements<br />such as the Red Brigades wrote letters from prison that Vattimo found<br />distressingly doctrinaire and filled with what he called "metaphysical and<br />violent rhetorical subjectivity."? His students had, he feared, misunderstood<br />his teachings and misinterpreted Nietzsche and Heidegger. As an antidote<br />to their embrace of violence, he developed his notion of "weak thought."<br />Believing that it was an insistence on the existence of definitive truths and<br />belief in a unitary history that had led astray not just his students but Western<br />philosophy as a whole, Vattimo argued that it was not a question of finding a<br />new ground for philosophy, replacing, say, as Derrida urged, the metaphysicsMartin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-14075706775119523642021-03-08T11:15:19.026-05:002021-03-08T11:15:19.026-05:00I would also like to say how much I love your curr...I would also like to say how much I love your current paintings. I saw a photograph of one on a bulky easel with Eve standing by it. The painting dominated the room and the easel with its architectural scale, physicality. It's monumentality jumped off the "2-D surface of a painting to being a 3-d presence". <br /><br />I have thought about your statements that people try to relate your paintings' colors to pop art. I find that in error. I think your color relates to the history of rococo color, for example, early Goya works. And to your process of digesting, not imitating, the history of western art. In many ways I think your painting is what Greensberg writes that a painting should be, but that the color field paintings failed to do.<br /><br />The photos I had previously seen on your Facebook posts, flattened out the 3-d presence of your work and, to me, misrepresented the experience of the work's physicality. They almost remind me of the physicality of the Parthenon 3 ladies! <br />Anne Bessacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-68553701693769769382020-12-08T08:42:20.673-05:002020-12-08T08:42:20.673-05:00The new work as of December 2020 is about the self...The new work as of December 2020 is about the self as pure sensation. Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-61068882968507609302019-02-24T10:10:28.896-05:002019-02-24T10:10:28.896-05:00A new book on Heidegger translates Enframement as...A new book on Heidegger translates Enframement as Positionality. Seems to be a battle of translators. Changes like these can be consequential. The German is Gestell.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-26927304926793244812019-01-22T14:31:29.957-05:002019-01-22T14:31:29.957-05:00I listen to the structure of musical compositions ...I listen to the structure of musical compositions and try and use them when painting. Of course the dialoge we now what with social media is helpful.....Books and all the other art forms that we share helps to keep the languae of art alive , develping and inspiring... Technology also is useful.Michael David Brathwaitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13900164827018753578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-77493999708596918982019-01-22T08:44:53.024-05:002019-01-22T08:44:53.024-05:00Reading this now after the revolt against the bure...Reading this now after the revolt against the bureaucrats in France!!!Nice try Kojeve!!!Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-45981932745302874652014-09-12T08:31:18.280-04:002014-09-12T08:31:18.280-04:00An email from poet Rosanna Warren:
Lovely stateme...An email from poet Rosanna Warren:<br /><br />Lovely statement about painting and time. Something similar could be said about painting and poetry: obviously, verbal rhythms differ form visual rhythms, but rhythm is the key to spiritual freedom, I believe.Rosanna Warrenhttps://newfaculty.uchicago.edu/page/rosanna-warrennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-17889095410272549492014-04-28T17:30:17.470-04:002014-04-28T17:30:17.470-04:00Here is Boris Groys talking about Kojeve.Is it the...Here is Boris Groys talking about Kojeve.Is it the bureaucratic strain in philosophy that is behind the death of time in modern art?<br /><br />At that time, he developed the very well-known notion of the end of history, which should be understood as the end of philosophy and not of practical history. What he meant was that the history of philosophy, as a history of looking for a perfect society, a perfect way of life, this history has come to an end. He believed that the understanding of the ideal organization for social practice had been reached. This mode of organization is the so-called universal and homogeneous state: a state in which all rights and all desires are recognized, a state of total recognition in which the differences between oppressor and oppressed, between master and slave, are erased. And so, once this understanding has been reached, the next step is the practical work. In his view, philosophers have to become bureaucrats, clerks, in order to organize the bureaucracy of this new homogeneous and universal state. So, putting his thoughts into action, after World War II, Kojève ceased to be a philosopher and became a bureaucrat. He notably participated in the foundation of the European Community and he was a high ranking representative of France in many international conferences and organizations, specializing in economic relationships.<br /><br />Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-51656459108119103102014-04-03T16:24:14.095-04:002014-04-03T16:24:14.095-04:00I guess I am intrigued by it as symptomatic of cul...I guess I am intrigued by it as symptomatic of cultural change,that still refers back to the past. Vattimo sees "weak thought" in a positive sense of still respecting the seriousness of the past without the power trip.So it should be liberating. It fits in with what Rorty sees as philosophy being more about conversation than establishing indubitable grounds. <br />Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-40639346667364841942014-04-03T16:20:53.955-04:002014-04-03T16:20:53.955-04:00Kate agrees with Carl:
yes, I agree Craig. Though ...Kate agrees with Carl:<br />yes, I agree Craig. Though it does seem that provisionality has almost run it's course and has morphed into something else that is exciting- Joanne Greenbaum, the recent shows at Life on Mars and Novello are examples of that.Kate Brownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-84735587868680148132014-04-03T16:19:38.141-04:002014-04-03T16:19:38.141-04:00This is Craig's reply to Carl Belz:"On th...This is Craig's reply to Carl Belz:"On the other hand, painting right now in NYC is so alive, it's exhilarating. And central to that vitality is the very consideration of provisionality, it is demanding of a response. It's a good thing when there's something on the table."Craig Stockwellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-73123841436857608352014-04-03T16:16:38.488-04:002014-04-03T16:16:38.488-04:00Carl expressed the following on a Facebook convers...Carl expressed the following on a Facebook conversation:<br /><br />"The "provisional" take on current abstraction is discouraging, it's like saying everything is interesting, sort of, which merely adds insult to injury."Carl Belznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-61449759557064581902014-04-03T09:04:59.846-04:002014-04-03T09:04:59.846-04:00Anne Bessac, a former student from UNC-G and a pro...Anne Bessac, a former student from UNC-G and a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design quoted this from the blog on Facebook:<br />"Painting still privileges the individual and their own notion of time. It is, as well, in an inevitable dialogue with all that painting has ever been, so that intentionally or otherwise the artist is forced to accept the history of painting. Its uniqueness lies in its ability to create time out of its own language, which forces the viewer to linger in front of it."Anne Bessachttp://abessacblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-18453769222283478982014-03-30T10:09:56.628-04:002014-03-30T10:09:56.628-04:00This is an important piece. I hope everyone reads...This is an important piece. I hope everyone reads it. The 21 C Zietgeist that so many people use as an excuse to stop thinking in their lives and in their work did not happen overnight and is not a phenomenon original to us. Nice work in trying to bring that to light. The piece shows your passion and frustration (with enframement) but also your intelligence and relevance as a writer and painter. I hope more painters feel relevant as well after reading this. Society interfaced with the abyss...nice sense of the big picture...seductions of the apocalypse perhaps..but careful what we crave. Some of your readers wanted a more positive piece? I hope they can see it in this.Paul Pollaronoreply@blogger.com