Roberto Matta, a late addition to the Surrealist group.
Mysterious murky depths and illuminations in his space age paintings.
“I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.”
-Matta
Roberto Matta, a late addition to the Surrealist group.
Mysterious murky depths and illuminations in his space age paintings.
“I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.”
-Matta
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Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue…
After the horrors of World War II, a group of northern Europeans banded together to promote their vision of art with a series of exhibits, publications, and collaborations. As a movement they existed for a few years in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
CoBrA favored expressionist painting techniques, spontaneity and experimentation. Inspired by the art of children, primitives, and the insane, they sought a kind of populism where art was made by and for everyone.
While their methods may leave their art crude and unresolved, their sense of art as a universal form of communication runs counter to the ever-present elitist tendencies that marginalize art in mass culture.
“Creation and revolutionary struggle have the same objective: the realization of life.” – Constant
A look at artists who have shaped the Phoenix art scene
Michele Bledsoe and I are honored to be included
A sales training film from the 1960s
An amazing piece of art history: when Vincent Price sold art through Sears Roebuck.
Fine art was made available across the United States; over 50,000 pieces were sold. The idea that art could be popular with a general middle class audience is lost in this era of elitist art attitudes.
Remodernism is bringing art back to the people-all people. As it should be.
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
-Francis Bacon
A video depicting many paintings.
English painter Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992) used painterly distortion to express the existential angst and shock of the 20th century. The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC had an impressive collection of his works on display which I saw as a child, before I had any sense of what modern art was all about. His intense narratives and mysterious atmospheres haunt me to this day.
Described as America’s first true avant-garde.
The Ashcan School of the early 1900’s favored an anti-academic art of the people, like Remodernism does today.
Remodernism grew out of a painterly art movement called Stuckism.
Like many art movements, the name of Stuckism grew out of an attempted criticism.
The Stuckists have generated much attention and controversy by their willingness to tackle art world dogma and celebrity worship. Stuckism is a much more recognizable “brand name” in the insular world of art, compared to the more generalized term of Remodernism.
Both movements were founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, artists of great vision and integrity. They were able to precisely articulate the failings of establishment art, and suggest constructive alternatives.
It did always strike me as a strange way to try to shoot yourself-in the chest, not directly at any vital organs.
Two authors suggest it was a case of manslaughter at best.
It would fit Vincent’s gentle, resigned nature at the time to protect some youngsters who had their whole lives ahead of them.
If true, it definately changes the dynamics of one of the most notorious martyrs to modern art. Unfortunately the truth can never be known.