“subway drawing (red and blue)” (via Leslie Roberts - subway drawing (red and blue))
(via Leslie Roberts - “On rereading …” 2005.)
Curators and critics struggled to define the essence of this artistic production, coining terms such as Post-painterly, Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field, Hard-Edge, Minimalist and Systems. Artists such as Larry Bell, Thomas Downing, Helen Frankenthaler, Stephen Greene, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella and Jack Youngerman produced work that has been included in one or more of these categories. Some artists, Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin among them, were outspoken in dissociating their work from such classifications. Many of these painters belonged to overlapping social and professional circles, providing each other with support for their innovations and efforts. And dealers such as Betty Parsons and Leo Castelli in New York and Irving Blum at Ferus in Los Angeles exhibited them and promoted their work. Surface Truths, drawn from the Museum’s holdings, presents seminal and seldom-seen work by these artists who blazed an important trail through the contemporary art world. (via Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties » Norton Simon Museum)
Tibor de Nagy Gallery Larry Rivers: John Ashbery, 14 x 17 inches, 1962 (via ‘A Vanguard of Friends’ by Dan Chiasson | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books)
![“The body of Frank O’Hara—the broken nose, the bouncy gait, the jaunty posture—was a special fixation, almost the Mont Sainte-Victoire of this coterie. [Larry] Rivers especially ranged across media to figure out how O’Hara’s personal dynamism might be captured in static form; his plaster bust of O’Hara, its single blue eyeball suggesting the effaced and white-washed grandeur of the classical past, is one of the show’s highlights. The two friends also famously worked together on the same surface, jointly creating a series of lithographs called ‘Stones’ that combined searching, fragmentary drawings by Rivers alongside improvisatory verse by O’Hara. This wasn’t a case of finding ‘some painter and some poet who would work together,’ Rivers said, but a special circumstance of ‘two men who really knew each other’s work and life backwards, which means to include all the absurdity and civilization a lively mind sees in friendship and art.’”(via ‘A Vanguard of Friends’ by Dan Chiasson | NYRBlog) “Painters & Poets” is on view at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery through March 5.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhgb1ggCJ11qz9wqwo1_250.jpg)
“The body of Frank O’Hara—the broken nose, the bouncy gait, the jaunty posture—was a special fixation, almost the Mont Sainte-Victoire of this coterie. [Larry] Rivers especially ranged across media to figure out how O’Hara’s personal dynamism might be captured in static form; his plaster bust of O’Hara, its single blue eyeball suggesting the effaced and white-washed grandeur of the classical past, is one of the show’s highlights. The two friends also famously worked together on the same surface, jointly creating a series of lithographs called ‘Stones’ that combined searching, fragmentary drawings by Rivers alongside improvisatory verse by O’Hara. This wasn’t a case of finding ‘some painter and some poet who would work together,’ Rivers said, but a special circumstance of ‘two men who really knew each other’s work and life backwards, which means to include all the absurdity and civilization a lively mind sees in friendship and art.’”(via ‘A Vanguard of Friends’ by Dan Chiasson | NYRBlog) “Painters & Poets” is on view at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery through March 5.
R5-D4 by Bwana Spoons (by DKE Toys) This painting is 1 of over 100 paintings of vintage Star Wars action figures by Bwana Spoons. Come see them in person! 1 Day Only @DesignerCon Saturday, November 20, 2010 10am-5pm Pasadena Convention Center
Genus Aves Iratus (Angry Birds) (by zero-lives) art by Shane “Das Chupa” Parker
Daily Graffiti: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Radness.
This fresh piece by DISKY is surprisingly the first and only Scott Pilgrim graffiti I’ve ever come across on the internets. Too bad there’s no better angles. I’d really like to see more of Envy.
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Sergeant Bosco Portrait Plate - Altered Antique by BeatUpCreations
“Super cool modern portrait plate for those that don’t pity the fool.”
