I’ve written recently about my feelings on Modernism in the general and specific. For sure there is an aesthetic draw for me to compositional strategies from that era and as I’ve written before I’m convinced that there is an experience to be had through Art that is unique to the same and exists- with immediacy– prior to our ability to describe it using language (tldr, I trust the vibe). A few examples of favs below (Johannes Itten, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Paul Lohse, Mercedes Pardo, Lorser Feitelsen, Paul Klee). Yes I see a lot of dudes, too.
This weekend I traveled to Greenville, SC, for an opening of a show that included the piece below (which is the second of a new series that is anchored around “through”). During my time there I had several conversations of differing flavors and which shared a common theme of, generally, “how about this time we’re livin’ in?” Through many of the discussions I have lately I keep coming back to the thesis that I’m seeing a relevance and value in contemplation in this (insert your adjective) cultural and historical moment, so I’ll be rereading The Coming Humanist Renaissance by Adrienne LaFrance at the Atlantic this week and continuing to reflect in coming weeks (link is to a pdf of the article because pay wall so I may have to take this down at some point as I am not an Atlantic subscriber atm).
Painting After Art is Dead 
2 thoughts on “Vibe”