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― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)
ten months pass...
hockney is strangely undervalued i think, the splash paintings are iconic enough that are they are almost sepreate from the rest of the corpus (a print of a similar, calmer painting sold for more then a million in the multiples auction at christies earlier this year, one of four for sale)
i think that he is the best pure painter that we have, his work has grown more beautiful, and more refined the further he has gotten, with the recent series of large works of the yorkshire countryside taking some of that california light to a anglo world, the colour in those paintings, and the perspectives are radically renewed.
there are other works i love--his swimming pool pictures, not so much splash, but their are several that are so placid, almsot a kind of zen calm, and the double portrait, one nude and one in a suit, is a sly comment on public/private personae, his grand canyon 45 peice suite is epic americeana, his society portraits have a really queer archness, his pencil drawings, esp. male nudes have the sinous desires of matisse and the fuckablity of late picasso, but the rigour of someone like sargent...the best in art history, i think his drawings, and deeply under rated--there is one of two daschunds in a chair, that has a tender devotion to domesticity, and a nude where he actually somewhoe made the arms and pubic region ligthened like tan lines...
there are ones that i like, i like his apartment block in los angeles, with the large brick dingbat and the sprinklers, the etchings for grim, his stage sets for a rakes progress, and the photo collages, esp the ones he did of his mother in winter, and of the large scrabble game, im less fond of pacific coast highway, i also really like the drawings he did of plants, of daffodils, cacti, and the like.
also his sketchbooks are just fucking amazing
i think that and maybe this is changing, he isnt taken very seriously, because of his skill at representation, his belief in the domestic pleasures, his calmness and other reasons i cant quite put my finger on, he really isnt viewed as important as other artists of the 20th century (see the lumpen, brown and black, almost decaying paintings of for example bacon or freud, the angst and the sadness, and the almost self loathing, that make tens of millions, and compare it to the exquisite control of hockney and get back to me--though freud paints much less, draws much less, and his prints/etchings arent as omnipresent as hockney, and bacon is dead so that cant really be made as an arguement, and auchenbach i dont think makes as much money, so i may have painted myself in a corner)
even LA artists (for example, i odnt have the numbers in front of me, but i think that theibaud, his closest american equvilent has done much better then 6m,i think hes broke 10) and i think that now, because LA is starting to ecclipse NY as a historical center of american art (cf the current center pompidou show) that his painting might be at the forefront, though he lacks the irony, the conceptual power, the lingustic games, or the sexy hollywood abjectness of other people in the same place.
maybe he isnt even american? something like this:
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is much closer to this:
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then this
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(though speaking of mechincal reproduction, his book on the use of veiwing instruments in art from the reniassance onwards is really impt, and i thot persuiave, i didnt understand the political controversy that reached it)
(also he rules)
-- anthony easton (anthonyeasto...) (webmail), June 22nd, 2006 1:54 AM. (anthony) (link)
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the original jarvis cocker.
-- Roughage Crew (miltonpinsk...) (webmail), June 22nd, 2006 2:09 AM. (Enrique) (link)
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waht does that even mean
-- anthony easton (anthonyeasto...) (webmail), June 22nd, 2006 2:18 AM. (anthony) (link)
― carrey the cable guy (account), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)