tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post2524297157258219630..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Torsion in MarcCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-86851543027425914372011-12-07T15:08:40.349-08:002011-12-07T15:08:40.349-08:00Curtis,
thanks also from me for the introduction ...Curtis,<br /><br />thanks also from me for the introduction to Franz Marc. What an extraordinary talent!<br /><br />Your presentation of his works raises (in my mind) some reflections on the nature of 'representation' in art, especially 'cubist' or 'expression' art. When artist, audience & an intended effect (like a 'feeling' about war) form conditions of an artwork, it's sometimes hard to separate technique from what's being represented. Does brilliant 'cubist technique' in "Guernica" represent perhaps one of the most horrific bombardment images in the last century? Or is it just brilliant cubist technique? Do ingenious uses of "multiple angles of view" and "linear or massed tensions within the confines of a composition" merely subtend the work only? Or are they to be considered separately as well?<br /><br />I can't help seeing, in other words, a work like "Fate of the Animals" without being conscious of the irreconcilability of artistry and intended (representational)effect. Artworks as brilliantly arranged as Marc's try to communicate individualized emotions. I also think it's precisely their integrity as artworks that's comprised by too much attention to principles of "torsion" or "lines of force". You've admitted to that danger yourself: "This kind of seeing may obliterate the subject matter by insisting upon its conformity to a ruling principle of design, and this may be one of the dangers of abstraction generally, that it manipulates the subject in ways which may ignore, or disrespect its inherent values--either visually or by eccentric association."<br /><br />It's my concern in general with people like Warhol, Escher (in art),Berio (in atonal music), and Yvonne Rainer (in experimental dance).It seems we're still stuck, with the Aristotelian bugbear of the nature of representation in art.Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-91493968559155777902011-12-07T13:05:07.977-08:002011-12-07T13:05:07.977-08:00Thank you, Curtis, for again introducing me to the...Thank you, Curtis, for again introducing me to the work of an artist of such significance and creativity. Very very exciting paintings. I also appreciate your thoughtful reflections on WWI and the tremendous loss of humanity and talents such as Marc's. What a sorrowful shame.Sunny Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02314781286465226051noreply@blogger.com