tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post4989335859208988744..comments2024-03-26T10:07:14.049-04:00Comments on Painting: "Shake and Bake" aesthetics in contemporary abstraction Martin Mugarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-1783612711116981292020-01-29T08:14:43.026-05:002020-01-29T08:14:43.026-05:00John Yau wants to turn the latest work of Reed int...John Yau wants to turn the latest work of Reed into that of a modern master. More shake and bake. https://hyperallergic.com/538319/david-reed-new-paintings-at-gagosia/Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-28456257300830729512019-03-02T11:21:23.471-05:002019-03-02T11:21:23.471-05:00Mark Stone has been helpful in writing about the ...Mark Stone has been helpful in writing about the rules based art of David Reed, the early David Row Mary Heilmann and others done in the 70's and eighties where the intentions were spelled out ahead of time. Abstraction needed rules. Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-8600221868792877172016-05-20T13:48:05.351-04:002016-05-20T13:48:05.351-04:00:):)Brancaster Chronicleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02509975696673442684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-13123601462782337112016-05-20T12:12:24.178-04:002016-05-20T12:12:24.178-04:00Exactly!Mr Greenwood! Always happy to hear your sn...Exactly!Mr Greenwood! Always happy to hear your snarky voice. It is with the icing applicator that I assert volume which is a connection to figuration that I am happy you stumbled into finally comprehending despite yourself. It is flatness and its inability to move the viewer anymore that is problematic.I take risks with my work even if the funkiness of an icing applicator pisses some people off.Like all experiments it is slowly being absorbed into a higher synthesis where the icing application effect fades away as rarely do people who view the work now refer to bubble gum or icing . BTW I have never referred to your work as I appreciate your opinions on contemporary art and do not want my opinions about your work which are unfavorable to bring an end to the discussion as you have done with this essay. Obviously what I say in this essay is of no value because you dislike my work.I don't feel the same about your opinions despite the extreme limitations of the aesthetic expressed in your sculpture that matches and does not transcend your prickly personality.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-73402882611391768492016-05-20T11:34:17.278-04:002016-05-20T11:34:17.278-04:00Your shake and bake aesthetics just need the final...Your shake and bake aesthetics just need the final touch of the icing applicator, eh Martin?<br />Brancaster Chronicleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02509975696673442684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-47408429481639553312016-05-11T22:19:01.818-04:002016-05-11T22:19:01.818-04:00I guess the harsher the climate the more amenable ...I guess the harsher the climate the more amenable the public is to abstract art.I liked the poetry of the last paragraph art can aim beyond itself to "yet to be grasped locales of meaning."Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-71109992418037939252016-05-11T14:51:54.218-04:002016-05-11T14:51:54.218-04:00Hello Martin,
re the implied loneliness of abstrac...Hello Martin,<br />re the implied loneliness of abstract painters or abstract painting you will find more farther north, particularly many who exhibit at Icon Contemporary Art in Brunswick--dare I say, a hot-bed of abstract artists?<br />For me, now concentrating on drawings that look like paintings but are developed out of thinking sculpturally, I am compelled to a bit of nervous twitching when scientific objectivity enters the room. Sometimes I stay for a chat, often I find another room.<br />How we see is certainly an optics issue, but it is also an issue of how we live in history and how we contest the future or the forth-coming. Doesn't art act arrow-ishly, aiming somewhere as though finding 'place' or finding as yet to be grasped locales of seeing--seeing being something connected to meaning, but not being meaning?<br /><br />Daviddavid raymondhttp://www.davidraymondartist.comnoreply@blogger.com