Well – he has never taught art to others officially, and has never been taught art by others in such a manner …
And while not being entirely sure, if just because or despite of that – Francis Bacon excels as an art (painting) tutor. I found him so lucidly articulated, so continuously and deeply [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘modern’
October 30, 2009
A seminar with Francis Bacon …
October 23, 2009
Contempotary Art (8) Chris Marker
Chris Marker (b. Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1921) – actual name: Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve – multimedia artist, photographer, film director, writer. Lives in Paris and does not grant interviews. When asked for a picture of himself, he usually offers a photograph of a cat instead (so far as the gossip says). His cat [...]
October 18, 2009
‘Making Worlds’ by losing your way…
That is a surprisingly romantic title for an enormous international art show – ‘Making Worlds – Fare Mondi’… Right from the day it was announced I knew I got to see it.
In a strange way that name referred to my own idea of art as a device for creating universes, for inventing new realities and [...]
October 6, 2009
Contemporary Art (7) – Marlene Dumas
“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information).”
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953, Cape Town) – one of the most important, influential figurative painters working today.
With Dumas one may easy get into a trap of ‘an infatuated viewer’. Trap she has crafted herself [...]
May 9, 2009
“Floating Culture” and the Thickness of things…
Check out these two last posts on Henri Art Magazine:
In Hyperaesthetics – 19 sixty he describes our culture – POMO (Postmodernism) of an unacceptable lightness:
We are somnambulists and voyeurs, lost in the hallucinatory world of light-speed and lenses. We are no longer grounded. We float in the digital subjective, our voices not quite our [...]
January 17, 2009
The story of Bacon’s studio
Well, the story is simple, yet it remains, as for my current knowledge without a precedent in the contemporary art history. It goes like this:
At 7 Reece Mews in South Kensington, London; at the last floor in a shabby, industrial-looking building Francis Bacon has lived and worked for the last thirty years of his life [...]
January 16, 2009
Art is no more… (Whilt 12)
Art is no more. It doesn’t matter any more. Few decades from now on, without any new input of any new visual expression would do us all great. We are all over-loaded, the world is over-saturated with pictures.
Conservators and museums do their best, and in 2500 the human race still marvels over Massacio, enjoys Matisse, [...]
January 15, 2009
Contemporary Art (3) – Douglas Kolk
Douglas Kolk, Nurse City, 2007, Collage on paper, 189.2 x 189.2cm
Douglas Kolk, Where You Went, 2007, Collage on paper, 188 x 210.8 cm
Douglas Kolk, Help me Nasal, 2005, Collage on paper, 97 x 81 cm
Douglas Kolk (b. 1963 Newark, New Jersey) lives and works in Boston. He seems to be preoccupied with the notions [...]
January 14, 2009
Review of the week… (1)
What kind of work will be bought in 2018 ?
Happy Christmas, dear Art Club Members and Art Club Caucasus Readers ! I wish you some nice days with your family and friends, enjoy your time, relax from the “quite difficult” but still very good 2008.
Here is a question to you to think about, if you [...]
January 14, 2009
Charles Saatchi on Art World
It’s a story that has been cherished in British artistic circles. Charles Saatchi in one of his rare interviews (The Art Newspaper) has been asked how he sees the contemporary Art World. He answered, in his usual way, with a teasing, sharp-edged tale about a game, he would play with his friend, an art critic…
The [...]
