The avant - garde impulse in art to analyze and counter dominant cultural models suited Kelley nicely, but, when
he actually went to art school, he found less the spirit of the avant - garde than institutionally certified, what he called «corporate,» Minimalism and Pop, which had started as a reaction to Abstract Expressionism and had become, in a little over a decade, nothing more than mannerism.
I feel like that was the
go -
to camp activity for those of us who opted for
arts & crafts over sports I
actually still have an oversized tie dye shirt that I made in middle
school that I wear as a pajama top.
MS. BENGLIS: Well, when I first
went to school at McNeese [State University, Lake Charles, LA]-- I wanted
to go away
to school but I stayed at home because I
actually went to Houston and I saw the great
art of Yves Klein, and at that time the de Menils had, on the University of Houston campus — they had — in the kind of classic tradition, they made a museum there for the
school, of their collection, and they brought Yves Klein there and she must have bought a lot of the Yves Kleins, and there they were in these barracks, you know, just right there.