Painting After Art is Dead

Martha Thorn

Switching it up for the next week or so and blogging about local artists. Picking Martha first since I just saw below in her IG feed this week.

#marthathorn

Richard Anuskiewicz

After blogging about Victor, my thoughts strayed to Richard, who had a lot of influence over me during a specific period of time (the first one is Richard, the second one is mine from ~2000).

#richardanuskiewicz

When I was searching Pinterest for images to blog on Robert the algorithm threw up an image of Paul’s– I’ve followed him on IG for a while as should you! I’m really drawn to the crevices (probably some association on my part with early-generation video games or landscape rendering from ’80s cartoons).

#paulkremer

Robert Mangold

Was taking a look at who’s in Marking Time and saw many of the usual suspects. As I was thinking about who I might have included Robert definitely comes to mind.

#robertmangold

Victor Vasarely

So yeah it’s probably pretty non-shocking to anyone who knows my work that I think about Victor’s work pretty often.

#victorvasarely

Agnes Martin

Like Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin loved the desert and was a sort of mystic- certainly a transcendentalist. I think the definition of sublime in the dictionary should have an image of one of her paintings. Although many historians tried to call her a minimalist, she was definitely about being an expressionist- “When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”

#agnesmartin

McArthur Binion

#Hyperallergic has a great series called #beerwithapainter- this month McArthur is their guest.

#mcarthurbinion

Agnes Pelton

Art in America has a piece up on Agnes’s retrospective at the #whitney. Her more… mystical pieces approach abstraction (some look similar to Hilma’s work) which is not surprising given the subjects of interest to her were abstract notions of the non-physical self (transcendentalism etc.).

#agnespelton