The artist discusses his influences, his best - known paintings and
his opinions of other artists, while art experts and historians explain the background to his vision.
Not exact matches
Where
other films might feel the need to announce or explain Woodcock's (not unearned) high
opinion of his dresses, «Phantom Thread» needs only to show how Woodcock comports himself to indicate his view
of himself as a grand
artist is as important to him as the actual work.
Ferrara, now a resident
of Rome himself, talks with African musicians and restaurant workers, Chinese barkeeps and relocated eastern Europeans, homeless men and women,
artists, members
of the right wing movement CasaPound Italia, filmmaker Matteo Garrone, actor Willem Dafoe, and
others, all with varying
opinions about the vast changes they're seeing in their neighborhood and world.
Brilliantly combining world - serious and Miami playful, the Rubell Family Collection offered a mini-retrospective selected from its more than 6,300 works and 800
artists, as well as work commissioned for the exhibition from the likes
of Mark Flood, Aaron Curry, Kaari Upson, Will Boone and, from newcomer Lucy Dodd, a room - long abstract painting inspired by Picasso's Guernica (watch her prices jump — the Rubells are
opinion - makers, as we've seen with Hernan Bas among
others).
«The LAPD aims to be completely inclusive, to absorb
others not accepted by
other organizations «because they don't act right,» in order to reflect the
opinions of the deeply marginalized, as well as to provide an outlet for
artists who have no physical space to create.»
«In 2005 the Rubells had a series
of conversations with
artists Kelly Walker and Wade Guyton, who talked about the generosity
of some
artists in the nature
of their work. Walker and Guyton described how
artists like Cady Noland, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and Richard Prince opened doors for
other artists like themselves to walk through. The Rubells had never heard that
opinion expressed as honestly before.  This show was borne out
of those conversations, and its title comes from a quote attributed to Picasso: «Good
artists borrow, great
artists steal.»
He has not, in my
opinion, copied or followed in the steps
of Rothko or any
other artist per se, but has been a keen observer and reacted to a certain corridor
of American painters and in using aspects
of their language, motifs, attitudes, and ideas, he has conversed with them and about them and reacted to them in a way that is his own.
Other contents include a contribution from Philadelphia's Headlong Dance Theater, which relates the process behind the company's highly regarded Cell piece from 2006; facsimile reproductions
of 1960s letters from the
artist James Lee Byars to MoMA curator Dorothy Miller (the second installment
of the Modern Artifacts series, presented in collaboration with The Museum
of Modern Art Archives); two more «Guarded
Opinions» from guards at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles — this time offering commentary on paintings by Degas and Gustave Moreau; an anonymous confessional piece about the life
of a «decor
artist»; a selection
of never - before - published map sketches by Michigan
artist Neil Greenberg; Angus Trumble's «2001 in Retrospect»; and a found object contributed by Stephen Weyl.
Over several years they have been in conversations with
other artists who curate about the various implications
of combining these roles, about some
of the conflicts
of interest that arise and about the way that as curators they take some part in the formation
of public
opinion of art and
artists.
Working closely with these
artists and through exposure to their
opinions, motivations and working methods, students to gain insight into how
artists approach the making
of art and respond to the work
of others.
Chowdhury's sculptures are infused with the
artist's humour, commenting on the dark side
of human nature and the consequences
of humanity's contemporary conduct, evident in works such as
Opinion, where two men face each
other with swords, Audacity, in which a man holds a pistol and has guns for legs, or Freedom, where a man is trapped in a small cage within a larger cage.
Propaganda
artists have manipulated and used good citizens
of the once «Free West» by the same bag
of «political correct» consensus
opinions that once openly controlled the
other half
of the globe.