tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post183922350887953513..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Contemporary ArtUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-83998447329338224122011-03-05T23:28:34.102-05:002011-03-05T23:28:34.102-05:001) People have been telling other people what they...1) People have been telling other people what they're supposed to think and feel about art since Aristotle. Probably before him, but he's the first one we can actually read.<br />2)Perhaps this is a case where living in New York is a disadvantage. Do you have events similar to what we have down here, the Las Olas Art Fair (which is going on this weekend) and the Coconut Grove Arts Festival--which is "curated" on the principal of "as long as there's space for your booth and as long as you can pay the exhibitor's fee, you're in".<br />(Google them if you want more specific information.) It's true we also have Art Basel now every year, but then, I don't know anyone who's gone to an Art Basel event, but almost everyone I know has gone at least once to the Las Olas or Coconut Grove events.<br />3) There's also small venues and events. When I go to pay the water bill at City Hall every month, I get to see a new exhibition every month--the city maintains City Hall lobby as an exhibition space for local (or at least in-state, like this month's exhibit) artists. This month, we have a bunch of paintings by the Florida Highwaymen--genre Florida landscape paintings (see here: http://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/)<br />but very good genre paintins.kishnevihttp://kishnevi.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-2372550683261460672011-03-05T20:05:18.970-05:002011-03-05T20:05:18.970-05:00Modern art is all theory in my opinion. It often ...Modern art is all theory in my opinion. It often misses the feelings, or is totally ONLY feelings. It seldom has the depth that I long to see in art. Great for architecture, but not for some piece of art to hang on the wall.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01203286781888444548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-35068746334205109152011-03-05T10:58:05.132-05:002011-03-05T10:58:05.132-05:00Last year the most prestigious gallery around this...Last year the most prestigious gallery around this part of the hemisphere invited me to have a one-man show. As much as the possible $$$ was tempting I decided I simply can´t ¨do¨ that anymore--some of my reasons are very commerically driven (I don´t want to be held up by anyone who changes the terms of the agreement--especially when the recourse would mean years of pursuit with little settlement--I´ve been financially screwed several times before)-- I can´t do that, I don´t have unlimited funding in my retirement and I find myself thinking more ¨rightsized¨ about myself, my talent and my circumstances in general--I´m far less the ¨merchant¨ than I once was (I was very successful in the Fashion Accessory business for years--speaking of commercial volume--no matter the sense of ¨style/creative¨ it was exhausting)...I´m a humble artist now who somehow able to pay his bills--seems to fall in line with the great tradition of ¨poor starving artists¨ to me...however we eat very well around here and I keep several people eating as well with the proceeds of my non-NGO community stimulus program.<br /><br />Chin up! Onward we go (good thing we are Gay and filled with tenacity)<br /><br />Best to you in all that you do,<br />LeonardoLeonardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667415590825321701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-11310106186810689972011-03-04T21:49:41.141-05:002011-03-04T21:49:41.141-05:00Or, maybe I'm just being a middle-aged crank.
...<i>Or, maybe I'm just being a middle-aged crank.</i><br /><br />Or maybe you're an artist, who's voice we should hear about what's not right in the art world today.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.com