Mo' Mo Ramblings

A Few Thoughts on a Standard Posture

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:02:44 -0500

A Few Thoughts on a Standard Posture

Tumblestack V to be installed at Packer-Schopf Gallery

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:45:14 -0500

Tumblestack V to be installed at Packer-Schopf Gallery

Flaws in the Ointment

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:24:24 -0500

Flaws in the Ointment

Melissa Mytty, Cup (Gold Handle), 2009, porcelain, glaze,...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:44:03 -0500

Melissa Mytty, Cup (Gold Handle), 2009, porcelain, glaze, luster, 5.5”L x 1.5”W x 3”H, $380.00 (via The Clay Studio: Image Gallery: Melissa Mytty: Pickles and Pop

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Melissa Mytty, Cup (Mighty Man), 2009, porcelain, glaze, luster,...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:43:44 -0500

Melissa Mytty, Cup (Mighty Man), 2009, porcelain, glaze, luster, 3”L x 1.5”W x 2”H, $240.00 (via The Clay Studio: Image Gallery: Melissa Mytty: Pickles and Pop

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Braunstein/Quay Gallery | Robert Brady

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:34:38 -0500

Braunstein/Quay Gallery | Robert Brady

Trax | Robert Brady

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:32:32 -0500

Trax | Robert Brady

Long Time No Write

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:51:17 -0500

Long Time No Write

Bill Traylor Man Talking to Bird, c. 1939-42 posterpaint on...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:38:19 -0500

Bill Traylor Man Talking to Bird, c. 1939-42 posterpaint on cardboard 16 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches (via Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists

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Pete Pennel on cups (via Google Video)

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:58:06 -0500

Pete Pennel on cups (via Google Video)

"This separation of fact from meaning is secularism. We divide the world easily into a world of faith..."

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:05:50 -0500

“This separation of fact from meaning is secularism. We divide the world easily into a world of faith and meaning on one hand and into the world of facts on the other. The results is an a-moral treatment of matter. Ultimately it denies the person, for the body is also reduced to its material components. Certainly it produces a mentality of irresponsibility, for there is no one to whom we must explain the use of matter.”

- Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation

Maira Kalman - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:50:12 -0500

Maira Kalman - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com

Conversation with Arthur C. Danto

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:15:06 -0500

Conversation with Arthur C. Danto

US Most Wanted Painting

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:54:58 -0500

US Most Wanted Painting

Denmark’s Most Wanted Painting

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:54:32 -0500

Denmark’s Most Wanted Painting

"The new and curious thing about art in this era, according to Danto, is that you can no longer tell..."

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:52:04 -0500

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The new and curious thing about art in this era, according to Danto, is that you can no longer tell whether something is art by looking at it. Rather anything can be art, and anyone can be an artist. That is because art is about physically embodied meaning. All that is necessary for something to be a work of art, says Danto in the 1984 piece, is that it should be about something, and that it should embody its meaning (AEA pp. 195ff.). [In the source cited, Danto suggests that there is a third condition; but I have not yet been able to get clear on what the third condition is.]

After the end of this linear progress of western art, in a sense, anything goes. Pluralism reigns. Photorealism rubs shoulders with abstract expressionism; interactive installations stand next to color-field paintings and political statements. The only thing that is no longer possible, of course, is to paint as past painters did. It is possible to make paintings that look like Vermeers, as the Dutch forger Hans Van Meegeren did in the early part of the twentieth century. But such paintings cannot mean what Vermeers paintings meant, because they were made in a different historical context and for a different purpose. We cannot escape our historical situation.

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- Aesthetics - Arthur Danto

"… a much misunderstood phenomenon in the history of philosophy — the refutation of one system..."

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:42:55 -0500

““… a much misunderstood phenomenon in the history of philosophy — the refutation of one system by another, of an earlier by a later. Most commonly the refutation is taken in a purely negative sense to mean that the system refuted has ceased to count for anything, has been set aside and done for. Were it so, the history of philosophy would be, of all studies, most saddening, displaying, as it does, the refutation of every system which time has brought forth. Now although it may be admitted that every philosophy has been refuted, it must be in an equal degree maintained that no philosophy has been refuted. And that in two ways. For first, every philosophy that deserves the name always embodies the Idea: and secondly, every system represents one particular factor or particular stage in the evolution of the Idea. The refutation of a philosophy, therefore, only means that its barriers are crossed, and its special principle reduced to a factor in the completer principle that follows.””

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sawdust & Dirt: Retro Postcard / New Pots @ AKAR

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:51:32 -0500

Sawdust & Dirt: Retro Postcard / New Pots @ AKAR

musing about mud: Daven Hee workshop part 2

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:50:04 -0500

musing about mud: Daven Hee workshop part 2

David Byrne Journal: 05.17.09: Art is good for you?

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:47:27 -0500

David Byrne Journal: 05.17.09: Art is good for you?