Autumn Rhythm (number 30) by Jackson Pollock, 1950 Surrealist painter René Magritte once wrote in a letter to André Bosmans that: “All the abstract paintings reveal only abstract painting, and absolutely nothing else. (…) I cannot share an interest in what abstract painting is able to say, which was summed up once and for all by the first abstract painting.”1 Well, if it isn't...
"Tecnhique is a just a mean of arriving at a statement" - Jackson Pollock I was very happy to have found the video below. In 1951, Hans Namuth shot a film of Jackson Pollock painting and showing his new "drip" technique. It's amazing to see him paint through glass. (Plus his paint-covered shoes are very cool.) The making of this film also appears...
Are modern artists substituting talent for social criticism? It happened again. I saw the painting above, didn’t particularly like it, but then I heard an amazing explanation for it. In the audio guide explanation, the artist himself, Luis Gordillo, said things like: “Man has become an infantilized clown (…), man sits in an alien environment that gives us television and magazines, like that’s...
"The Lovers" - René Magritte A post about Magritte and Wagner but Chevy Chase will make a brief appearance. “What I paint is addressed to those who “live” in the present, or rather, for it… An artist who paints for posterity has an intention that I do not have. In my opinion, he is doing something idiots understand very well – those who...
Hegel's Vacation - René Magritte Source "My latest picture began with the question: how to paint a picture with a glass of water as the subject? I drew a number of glasses of water, a line always appeared in these drawings. Then this line became deformed and took the form of an umbrella. Then this umbrella was put into the glass, and finally...
