tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2930030978357408316..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: 33 StatementsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53416464942286286152011-10-13T04:32:52.748-07:002011-10-13T04:32:52.748-07:00Curtis, I think it's because the publication o...Curtis, I think it's because the publication owners, the critics, the dealers, the auctioneers, and the blindly obeisant collectors with the money rings hooked through their noses, are all part of a self-perpetuating "support" industry that must shill to sell to live. Honesty, clarity and actual use-value simply do not enter this picture.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83261368632742031292011-10-13T03:50:55.365-07:002011-10-13T03:50:55.365-07:00Regarding number relevance at stratospheric levels...Regarding number relevance at stratospheric levels, you're correct, of course. Still, like so many things, one's own views and those of others seem to collide. From time-to-time, I've attended mega-high-priced auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's in New York and the tension and sense of relevance to the crowd is so pronounced. It is definitely the weirdest, most unsettling spectator sports event I've ever seen. As for the pomposity in contemporary art criticism, I think I remember when things finally crossed from the confusing and barely relevant into the totally unreadable, but I've never been sure why publication owners allowed this to happen. I mean, it doesn't need to be this way.ACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34801491551423178002011-10-13T02:55:33.142-07:002011-10-13T02:55:33.142-07:00Thanks Leigh, and I'm joining you in that laug...Thanks Leigh, and I'm joining you in that laugh, despite the hoary burden of the intervening years since this was writ. It appears to have had its share of cheek, that much can be said for it (and perhaps for its times, compared with the present general obeisance before the Money Gods at any rate).<br /><br />The pomposity of art criticism remains perhaps only slightly more ridiculous than the ridiculous overvaluations it helps to enable. That Pollock pictured here was latterly bought (or perhaps sold, or reacquired...) by David Geffen for $62 m., or was it $162 m... but at that stratospheric level, do the numbers really matter?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79223429178692864242011-10-11T16:10:14.652-07:002011-10-11T16:10:14.652-07:00Brilliant! 'Donald Judd and Robert Morris'...Brilliant! 'Donald Judd and Robert Morris's stubbornly indivisible equal-unit designs suck.' had me laughing out loud :).https://www.blogger.com/profile/00532376301529981186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26002196065872069782011-10-07T10:17:16.948-07:002011-10-07T10:17:16.948-07:00That's lovely. A reason for art to exist.That's lovely. A reason for art to exist.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17698016194004030532011-10-07T10:09:20.132-07:002011-10-07T10:09:20.132-07:00Funny how paintings bring back memories. The firs...Funny how paintings bring back memories. The first time I saw a Rothko, a Pollock, a Mondrian, I was with my friend's mother, a painter, who was coping with manic depression. She used to go into mental institutions once a year, usually in spring, sometimes summer, where they gave her shock treatments. And when she came out, she would paint and paint and paint. She is still alive, still painting. But I remember her looking at a Rothko with tears in her eyes, saying yes, yes, I see. Rothko is right.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76525501313153015052011-10-07T07:49:36.297-07:002011-10-07T07:49:36.297-07:00David,
Well, I didn't want to just give away ...David,<br /><br />Well, I didn't want to just give away the farm, there.<br /><br /><br />MM,<br /><br />Many thanks, and yes, I think it always helps to look at paintings a bit aslant. (Especially very expensive ones.)<br /><br /><br />Steve,<br /><br />Astride the slant, around the bend... where was that next curve?<br /><br /><br />Nin,<br /><br />Well, that elusive "this" is now splashed all over <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/sun-and-moon-rhythm-and-colour-robert.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-7309747946337671542011-10-07T07:31:35.560-07:002011-10-07T07:31:35.560-07:00The wonderful tang of truth, start to finish. A s...The wonderful tang of truth, start to finish. A sure sign of that, in my view, is humor. Line I laughed at most: "Monet’s chromatic and luminary variations on such themes as a haystack look OK."<br /><br />David GrahamDavid Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06448278560900184834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21849762612459143582011-10-07T07:03:08.955-07:002011-10-07T07:03:08.955-07:00I really liked the ocean shots that you opened wit...I really liked the ocean shots that you opened with. The first photo is a field of forces, and the second one involves a straight line. The photos made me see the paintings from a new slant.<br /><br />MMMMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14976719537387112968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-84069772622097842412011-10-06T14:27:54.989-07:002011-10-06T14:27:54.989-07:00Tom,
Very cool, very hip, wow. . . . (you were wa...Tom,<br /><br />Very cool, very hip, wow. . . . (you were way ahead of the curve, way back then -- and still are). . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32426506321472572612011-10-06T09:19:35.002-07:002011-10-06T09:19:35.002-07:00For lack of more insightful things to say-- I love...For lack of more insightful things to say-- I love this, all of it. But what/where is the "this" -- in your comment. Very nice "this."Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12514946343955538402011-10-06T08:14:39.032-07:002011-10-06T08:14:39.032-07:00Curtis,
Thanks.
I detected this by close analysi...Curtis,<br /><br />Thanks.<br /><br />I detected <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/%27Simultaneous_Contrasts-Sun_and_Moon%27%2C_oil_on_canvas_painting_by_Robert_Delaunay%2C_1912-13%2C_Museum_of_Modern_Art%2C_%28New_York_City%29.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a> by close analysis, over a period of time.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57430442517838465872011-10-06T08:08:39.305-07:002011-10-06T08:08:39.305-07:00It's nice (I would just like to say) to see Ro...It's nice (I would just like to say) to see Ron Davis and Larry Zox included. <br /><br />"Robert and Sonia Delaunay’s rainbow disks smack of homework."<br /><br />So that's what it is. This has been on my mind since 1968.<br /><br />CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82503376314804516982011-10-06T07:42:17.526-07:002011-10-06T07:42:17.526-07:00Thanks. Just what I needed today. CurtisThanks. Just what I needed today. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com