http://www.electrichands.com/sketches/bigflower/
I love the ripe aroma of dead flesh. I used to work in a hospital near the
incinerator, best job I ever had... I'd open up a six pack and sit there
enjoying the aroma while they burned the diseased parts.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
PK, thanks for your previous comments. You asked a long time ago for a reference of my
previous posting it is:
http://www.ipdg.org/museum/lingo/hs/index.html
About painting from aaron... Forget relevance, politics, sociology, psychology,
science, history, critics, forget it
all! Look inside
I think painting is both "opera" and a living language. The peculiar thing
about the times is that most modes of making are palimpsests of archive and
the new. See Sigmar Polke, eg.With libraries, video stores, cd reissues,
mp3s, etc., the range of the available texts/images becomes very
31, British artist, received hordes of free publicity when his collage,
The
Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a black Virgin Mary with elephant feces
on
one breast and cutouts from pornographic magazines glued in the
background,
was part of the Brooklyn Museum of Art's October exhibit,
Thank you Aaron for your letter.
as noted in my response to the original question re
painting
earliest art forms are visual poetry--the cave paintings,
petroglyphs
also the amazing Goddess/Earth Mother figures found throughout
the world
t;content"
I have made the night my chair.. and sit naked gazing at the stars now
that is a painting...
fresh meat for art buzzards
come and get it...
www.hevanet.com/solipsis
- Original Message -
From: "Aaron Kimberly" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
Hi Everyone,
I'd enjoy hearing your comments about painting. I recall seeing a set of
paintings at the Whitney over a year ago of "Divas". The commentary called
into question whether painting is still a living language or
historical/sentimental like 'opera'. Perhaps Baudelaire would agree that
I wouldn't say painting is dead, nor is it irrelevant - it's just that the
field has expanded a great deal into other media since the huge shock value of
the Salon Refusee and the Armory Show of 1913. Shock value seems to have
transferred itself to installations, assemblage, digital work and
well--oldest art forms are visual poetry, panting, really--
cave paintings, petroglyphs, objects -fetishes of Goddesses--
is painting relevant?
well--i started off as a housepainter, moved on to grafitti and
now do visual poetry using spray paint,
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