John Arthur does a great deal of agreeable writing,almost always on
representational painting-he wrote a book or helped to write one on
Edith Wharton too. He has been doing this since 1970. I am not going
to defend him, but I am surprised that he came out with any such strong
opinions. He is usually very very nice and never says anything bad
about the people he is writing about. He gives a yearly lecture as
part of the MFA course Western Connecticut State University . He has
also:
He has served as an advisor to the national Endowment of the Arts,
Department of the Interior, National Science Foundation, GSA Art and
Architecture Program, and the Department of State.B Since 1975 he has
advised private collectors, galleries, and museums in the U.S., Europe,
and Japan.B
Mr. Arthur will discuss the landscape tradition in American painting
and his perspective on contemporary images of nature. (This lecture was
rescheduled from September, 2011)
I have been to the Upper Peninsula once and admire Abraham's
ability to get so much out of the landscape there-but I suppose it's
all in what you're used to.
-----Original Message-----
From: William Conger <[email protected]>
To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jan 6, 2013 6:17 pm
Subject: Re: "Too little is asked and too little is expected of
artists, critics, and curators...."
What's junk is to disparage one sort of art as a means to falsely
elevate
another. If one wants to praise an artist's naturalistic realism or
landscape
painting then it should be done in comparison with other works of the
same
genre. It's very specious, downright stupid, to make a claim for one
sort of
art by discrediting what does not have anything to do with it. Really,
it's
almost as bad as saying black person is inferior to a white person
because the
black person does not share the white person's ideals. I have no
patience for
stupid journalism. As for the Upper Peninsula, I am very familiar with
all of
it and agree that it's a beautiful area, I go there every year. The
locale,
any locale, of course, has nothing to do with validating aesthetic
standards in
art.
wc
________________________________
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, January 6, 2013 3:53:42 PM
Subject: Re: "Too little is asked and too little is expected of
artists,
critics, and curators...."
Junk which? The earnest John Arthur,worshipper of Estes etal or the
unfortunate Richard Abraham who was driven to landscape painting by
the beauties of Michigan's Upper Peninsula?
Kate Sullivan
-----Original Message-----
From: William Conger <[email protected]>
To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jan 6, 2013 9:57 am
Subject: Re: "Too little is asked and too little is expected of
artists, critics, and curators...."
Junk.
wc
________________________________
From: joseph berg <[email protected]>
To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, January 6, 2013 2:53:29 AM
Subject: "Too little is asked and too little is expected of artists,
critics,
and curators...."
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog/jcontursi/art-richard-abraham
