This intimate, vérité portrait of Henry Taylor offers the public a view into the professional, personal and
philosophical life of an artist, through another artists» lens.
Not exact matches
Drawing on
life and the kaleidoscope
of verbal, literary,
philosophical and poetic communication, each
artist has succeeded in conferring upon the word a power that goes beyond mere meaning: more than words!
The play
of shadow and light simultaneously recalls one
of the oldest
philosophical critiques: Plato's Cave Allegory: that it is the
artist's responsibility to create objects that can transcend terrestrial
life by giving us a glimpse
of the metaphysical.
The fame
of the movement was short
lived, as these new
artists started to eliminate the original emotional and
philosophical content from the paintings, moving towards more decorative and austere compositions.
There is a particularly French intellectual quality to the
artist's sculptural and soundscape works, no doubt indebted to some extent to the
philosophical ideas
of Merleau - Ponty, whose philosophy has an affinity with the phenomenological realities
of bodily and
lived sensory experience.
Does the challenge
of selecting
living artists and specific artworks for the exhibition pose conflicts with your
philosophical position?
Ms. Sterne, who was the last surviving
artist from the
Life photograph, shared few
of the stylistic or
philosophical concerns
of the Abstract Expressionists, nor did she cast herself in the heroic mold favored by many
artists in the movement.