John Currin

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ok i dont get it, his work seems ugly, mean spirited and reactionary. why all the love

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, it's beautiful, mean-spirted, and reactionary. Which is interesting.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I like his paintings alright, but come on people, is it 1994 still? Let's move on from Currin, hmm?

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Whitney show was so awesome. I love his visual commentaries (criticisms) on class. Plus, the man can PAINT which is more than I can say for many contemporary artists who bore the shit out of me with their haphazard styles.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

what does he say about class ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I presume he doesn't so much 'say' anything as 'portray' it.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

What he says is that if you end up in a great series of art classes at Yale, people will project things onto your canvases that aren't there. Lisa Yuskavage should be the more popular one of the these two, but you know, she doesn't sell as many postcards.

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

see, i dont think that he is that skilled a techincal painter (and why do we even care about that any more, should we not look for effective more then skilled--ie does it do the job?) , i could name a dozen who use paint and surface better, i think that he smug, and encourages a discourse that is smug (cf damien loeb)

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Being from the back of beyond, out here in the hinterlands, I had never seen Mr. Currin's work. A bit of googling allowed me to glimpse a few, small digital reproductions. Even from these drastically diminished thumbnails it is easy to see that Mr. Currin paints subjects for which he has not the slightest respect, sympathy or admiration. It matters little to me whether the subjects deserve anyone's respect, sympathy or admiration; this fact alone reveals something about Mr. Currin that I cannot respect, have no sympathy for and do not admire.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

his stuff looks like dude who does the paintings on the back cover of readers digest

― and what, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

this thread needs some images

I liked this one from the Whitney show

http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/john_currin_fisherman_2000.jpg

― dmr, Friday, 25 May 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

and this one although yeah it's kind of mean-spirited but whatever

http://www.jimh.net/Currin/StamfordAfterBrunch.jpg

― dmr, Friday, 25 May 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone catch this awesome show at the Met? Glitter & Doom: German portaits from 1920:

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/glitter/images.asp

It made me think of John Curin a lot. There was also that gay painter who did paintings of boys at the beach or in a bathtub together, but kind of exagerated and grotesque like Curin's stuff. What was his name?

― django, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Schiele?

― Oilyrags, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Anyone been to see his new porno stuff in London? (or anywhere for that matter - but it's on in London at the moment - at Sadies Coles). I like it.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

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