Painting After Art is Dead

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

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