Sunday, April 16, 2006

People and Things to Know about: (From Art School)


Philippe Lamount Printers 333 West 50 or 52 or 53st 8th or 9th or 10th ave. E train
Eleni Mylonas @ Foundation for Hellinic Culture on 57 st @ 5-7 ave or #5-7
Photographer Judy Gator
Paul Waldman "india" Joseph Helman Gallery 20 west 57th
Simon Frost: Peter Blumb 99 Wooster st
Alain Kirili: Marlborough Gallery/Chelsea
Micheal Craig Martin Walls of
MOMA
Behind the scenes exotic sluming un goulash bourgeoisie bonfire of the vanities South Bronx Brighton Beach and who mobster's mystery sustaining the exotic
when she farts
The inside of the walls moan and pipes clang and grumble
UNE Semaine de Bonté a rather surrealistic novel in collage by Max Ernst .

Meece Vandero Coborsia
Three planes, ground over head ,another overhead, no walls at all , four posts.
stripped-down staircase, wrap in glass Marse dube tas building in France .
Show the live undisguised angle of motion not hidden in design ornamentation
stripped-down to key elements down to basics and motion maybe a touch of color.

Duchamp : dynamic movement: reductionism stripping down to essentials than play with essentials, manipulate dimension , manipulate proportion , show materials , curves , planes , lines, basic structure of the chair, bicycle wheel on stool.

De Chirico : anxiety/creativity juxtaposing arranging unmeasurable things activating change , expressive motion and change Dynamizing objects by association,
expressively dynamic , get to emotional fundamentals , emotional basics , not always clear what's happening , recognition of physical dynamic , emotional dynamic , modernizing the object . The guitar has an inherent dynamic, curves, strings made to be played.



Primary process/secondary process
Irrational fantasy: primary
Articulate it: secondary

Condensation of primary process on the secondary level
Bring it into intelligible way,
talk about a fantasy dream ,
Traditional art structure/figure ground/signs of body/Red Green complementary

Dali said he wanted to make hand painted photos of his fantasies.

Secondary process allows me to stay in control? Another murder! Another airplane down! Should I be enraged?
But the paper prints that in a secondary process of rational framework so I have control. Primary deals with the insanity _ secondary gives us ego control .

Gerrit Rietveld
Dutch :1888-1964
Red Blue Chair : 1923
Painted Wood

Marcel Duchamp
American: born France 1887-1968
Bicycle Wheel : 1951
Third version - after lost original of 1913
Assemblage: metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool

Giergio De Chirico
Italian : born Greece 1888-1978
Song of Love : 1914
Oil on canvas

Gebrüder Thonet
Austrian :1853
Side Chair : c.1876
Manufactured after 1918
Bent wood and stamped seat

Peter Behrens
German : 1868-1940
Fan "GB1" : c.1908
Painted cast iron and brass

Kasimir Malevich
Russian : born will Ukraine 1878-1935
Supramatist Composition
White on White : 1918
Oil

Pablo Picasso
Spanish : 1881-1973
Guitar : 1912-13
Construction ofsheetmetal and wire

Hamlet seems to be acting, receives ghost, from confusion to lucidity and then what? Madness ? His mother and uncle.

Fresh Window : copyright Rose Selavy 1920 : aqua french doors with
black paper windows, paint, fractal cracking, reflection of you .

Aleksader Rodchenko
Non objective painting
Black on Black
But when painting becomes an object thought becomes object .
Logo - advertising the object / object posters : marriage the image in a color field plane with logo and type . the type and the thing become one in the mind. The things of art employed to isolate, name, and dipict the object and thereby create it as thing in the mind of consumers. Still lifes function to do the same without selling the object; they become the object for sale. MOMA places them in a nice new wood frame $$$

Glass Object case holding in space objects that twist and turn notions of object as image, Thing , carrier, displacer - utilitarian - thought idea form shape meaning to our actions. Modernism is comfort with one's surroundings a mastery over the primary forms in nature, utilized to express our ability to come to terms with our physicality and the physicality of space that we occupy/are occupied by. Point, line , plane , volume chair . standing in front of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'clear story windows ' and
Piet Mondrian's 'composition c' - look to the left - chairs - right- Duchamp/Rodchenko
Objects of harmony the room the rectangled floor undulating in variations of wood grain Hue- snow frosted windows held by black steel lines in receding cubed cut out of Wall -
Rectangles, squares, benches, light tracks on ceiling parallel vertical space dissected and ordered- warm with a side of salt and honey - Francis Picabia/ANE-ASS
Spark plug / for ever , portrait of an American girl in a state of nudity
Lightbulb split flirt to divorce American girl ship's propeller. Fractal- endless column
Brancusi-
Louis Henry Sullivan -" the architect's task claimed was to impart to the passive materials a subjective or spiritual human quality which will make them live ."

A star in heaven composed of lines whose corner connects to a string sent to earth where a spindle in the hands of a young kite enthusiast unravels more .

Today: collage
Intro _ Cezanne
Cubism : Picasso , Braque, Gris
Surrealism : absolute : Arp
veristic : Max Ernst
DaDa : Kurt Schwitters
+ Romare Bearden , Debuffet , Red Grooms well -

Architectonic: composed like architecture
Absolute surreal = Jung- universal archetype forms (Hanz Arp -Joan Miro)
Veristic = for truth ( Latin )
Freud( Ernst - Dali ) fifth dimension .

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