Showing posts with label De Kooning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label De Kooning. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Rauschenberg's Retrospective at MoMA

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The Rauschenberg retrospective on the scale of the Stella show that closed last year is on its way to New York. I am wary of any attempt t...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

David Row at Loretta Howard (Feb18-April 2)

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The opening of a show in New York of David Row’s work at Loretta Howard concurrently with the Cheim and Read show of his mentor Al Held’s...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Spiraling downward: From Minimal to Material

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Stella Zambezi series Robert Linsley's   New Abstraction has an interesting blog post on the notion of symmetry , that got me thi...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Starting with Anthony Powell and ending with De Kooning via Hegel

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  Several weeks ago I was invited to lunch by a good friend,Addison Parks, who asked several mutual acquaintan...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

The late Addison Parks's blog was always worth reading: Especially this response to de Kooning's letter to the editor written upon the death of Arshile Gorky

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http://artdealmagazine.blogspot.com/ here is a recollection of Addison https://martinmugar.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-recollection-of-addi...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

In rereading this essay I was struck by the author's reference to "willed vulgarity".I think what she is refering to was my conscious decision to accept our basic human condition of irrationality and raw will.It is something picked up stylistically from the late Guston.We must start from "the cruel chaotic base" before we can pretend to have any"raffinement".

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  Camp on Canvas: Martin Mugar            “My painting is about the desire that underlies the facts,” writes Martin ...
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