tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8405421.post7311752699507994952..comments2023-12-12T02:46:13.596-06:00Comments on Seth Saith: Pulling the Christopher Wool Over My Eyes? -- Pondering the Current State of ArtSeth Arkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16009137272886018009noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8405421.post-2315169555516873022014-04-16T23:59:57.301-05:002014-04-16T23:59:57.301-05:00GW
I thought that the OK painting is pretty good....GW<br /><br />I thought that the OK painting is pretty good. You're not a good painter on the whole. That's best demonstrated in the fact that you made that painting with the beautiful shapes and covered it with bands of black and white lines distracting from the beauty that was already there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8405421.post-79263432396482575402014-03-04T17:59:15.474-06:002014-03-04T17:59:15.474-06:00Start with THESHOWISOVER, which is the first piece...Start with THESHOWISOVER, which is the first piece you encounter past the introductory display. Figure out what it says. Then, start at the top and count the letters in the first line. Realize that each letter is directly on top of the lower ones, there's a grid with no spaces. <br /><br />In the second line, you will see that Wool has started to change his mind, to erase some letters and cover them with his spaceless words. You notice some irregularities in his painting together with the rigidity he is working with.<br /><br />At this point, you realize that Wool is showing you his whole process. The things we get rid of in order to clarify the design we've achieved, Wool keeps for us to think about.<br /><br />Wool said in the Friday lecture that he got self-conscious about taking words and using them and stopped doing it quite a while ago. He continues to lay things out, and then recopies them or covers them up. <br /><br />We can see what he is doing, what he has done as we look at his stuff. Linen, aluminum, silkscreen, spray gun, he's left traces for us to contemplate. I'd take home whichever one I could. A middle sized blotchy painting would be fine, or a bigger one with drips--some drip upward which makes you think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com