A kind of pomo haiku, Barry? I like it, but realized after reading your
explanation that I really needed it, in that I did not know about the
artist or the painting....
Doug
On 17-Nov-05, at 12:31 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> THE WHITE ROSE
>
> [via Bruce Conner]
>
> Once protectively covered >
> Jay DeFeo’s bed.
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 11-17-05 (2:29 AM)
>
>
> Written while watching for perhaps the third time Bruce Conner’s 1967
> film
> documenting the removal of a now-legendary, 2300-pound painting (“The
> White
> Rose”) from the upper level studio of artist Jay DeFeo. On this
> viewing I
> was struck by DeFeo’s performative activity of placing relatively small
> sheets of paper over the front surface of her huge painting and then
> laying
> down on it, once the staff from Bekin’s had moved “The White Rose”
> from its
> initial vertical position to a horizontal location on the floor of her
> studio. Eventually I began to consciously consider this activity in
> relation to the use of mattresses as material for art making by Robert
> Rauschenberg and Guillermo Kuitca. Jackson Pollock’s painting of
> canvas
> laid out on the floor also came to mind. Despite its rescue and
> exhibition
> in the late sixties, “The White Rose” apparently “languished” in
> storage at
> the San Francisco Art Institute for 25 years until it underwent
> conservation and entered the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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I’ve never done anything
but begin.
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