Guyton questions the value of artistic skill in age when Abstract Art is proliferated
by mechanical reproduction.
Not exact matches
Therefore,
reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or
by any means, electronic,
mechanical or otherwise, for any reason, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission.
Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin - pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a
mechanical donkey led on
by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of
reproduction.
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Reproductions.
Continuing to investigate the boundary between
mechanical and manual
reproduction, he works with appropriated images of vintage photographs, deftly mimicking the Xerox aesthetic
by hand, using only carbon pencil, charcoal and acrylic.
Created
by layering thickly painted areas with fragments of found maps, the composition mixes
mechanical reproductions with tactile brushwork to yield a central circular form edged
by both paint and paper.
However intuitively, Naples» soul and its proverbial energy look exploited, even frustrated
by Guyton's action of
mechanical reproduction.
Whereas members of this movement draw inspiration from mass media, Thiebaud paints on the basis of his own memories, and his loose brush strokes are miles away from the
mechanical, hard - edge
reproductions by artists like Andy Warhol.
Some critics, particularly those preoccupied with terminal progress, narrow the view further and describe his brushstrokes of hardened encaustic as the bridge between Abstract Expressionism's volatile brushwork and Andy Warhol's use of
mechanical reproduction, the latter cited
by many experts as signaling the death of painting.
However, unlike Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, Thiebaud worked from life, not from media images, and his engagement was evident in his loose brushstroke, whereas a hard - edge painting style, signifying
mechanical reproduction, was preferred
by many Pop artists.
He thrived on the increasing confusion between high art and progressive popular culture and the challenge to conventional methods of painting
by the techniques of
mechanical reproduction.
In three ink drawings, Sietsema has manually duplicated the process of
mechanical reproduction, copying pages of The New York Times
by hand - rendering each typographic mark.
For now, I'll note that
mechanical «
reproduction» of figures produced
by archived data using the original study's R script hardly constitutes «independent verification» (a point made very eloquently
by Horatio).