Showing posts with label Rosanna Warren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rosanna Warren. Show all posts
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Giuliano's sister Pip's travels abroad bring back memories of France in the 70's and my introduction to Weltschmerz

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  I had hitchhiked my way up from the Midi to Alsace via Paris where I spent some time with Alix and then moved on to find more work as a fa...
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Friday, April 7, 2017

Innocence and Experience

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Conversations at the Bow St gallery in Cambridge, once the most interesting alternative art space in the Boston area, were a fertile sourc...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Just stumbled across this reply to my Lester Johnson piece on Berkshire Fine Arts by the poet Rosanna Warren. Google every gallery on earth and you will find 99% are exhibiting "one show": a found object(ersatz sculpture ) on the floor, photo-document on the wall and a pseudo-profound statement about some group in need of uplift into the Hegelian dialectic.Global group think!!

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Figurative Expressionist:Lester Johnson --> Dear Martin, What an extraordinary piece. I wish I could have seen the Johnson ...
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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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