If you want to check out mass production in the visual arts,
don't miss the Picasso Museum in Arles.
Hal
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Warhol took existing images, had his staff solarize them and applied to
> silkscreen. He used them endlessly, varying the number of the an image in a
> given piece and the color. The images themselves were mostly iconic images
> of a very few celebrities. One or two of these establishes the concept. The
> rest, I think, is way too much-masturbatory repetition and money in the
> bank, milking a largely undereducated clientele. I understand the importance
> of the concept in art history. The idea of multiples had been around for a
> long time, but marrying it to high prices was brilliant. The art market was
> thrilled.
>
> The question isn't whether this or that series is "brilliant," but whether
> it's a one-liner. Does one learn anything from living with them, and for how
> long? If the duration is short we're talking fad or interior decoration. And
> eventual footnote status. Right now, of course, you can buy a Warhol for
> more than most old masters, if you're so inclined.
>
> I wasn't talking about Warhol's commercial art work (drafting). Google
> Warhol Drawing and select images.
>
> I'm aware that you're not alone. I also don't think much of Norman
> Rockwell.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> At 01:20 PM 4/17/2010, you wrote:
>
>> Unless I am hearing wrong here, I re-hear an aka 1963 dismissal of
>> Warhol's silkscreens (??). I find, and I am far from alone, that many of
>> those series (conceptually and in realization) are flat out brilliant. Talk
>> about period geist and social/capitalist critique and the shear chilly
>> pleasure of looking (say, the Jacqueline Kennedy grieving portrait series) ,
>> Warhol has it in spades. Then again Sontag (during the same time frame)
>> dismissed Diane Arbus - in retrospect - rather stupidly - missing the
>> significance of one the great photographers of the 20th century.
>>
>> Thank goodness Warhol gave up drafting. I would say.
>>
>> Stephen V
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>
>
> Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of
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>
> "Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of
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>
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