Thursday, November 8, 2007
Edwin Dickinson
Fairfield Porter on the painter Edwin Dickinson:
"Dickinson makes the most out of the least, especially in Winter Woods, Wellfleet, or View of Green Island. Least is, green, flat ground and blue-green sky; or an impression of trees that gives, with trained simplicity, a single essential for landscape, namely, the presence of nature. In these little paintings, or quick ones, he is in touch with an elusive, and fleeting, essentiality. In his large exhibition pieces, he is in touch with not entirely coordinated ideas of art. In the large paintings, he expresses, like an inadequate classicist, the limitations of a formality that originates outside himself; in the small paintings he has been able to surrender to his deepest self which has a profounder form than the form one can know and understand. It is a form that does not impose itself on his subjects, nor is it outside them. Chekhov said he wrote about the inkwell, and in the same way, in Dickinson’s small paintings, there is none of the manipulation of the artist who has lost contact with himself." (Art in Its Own Terms, p. 118-20.)
I posted this on our blog last year, but reading again, it seemed just as pertinent for this semester's class. Fairfield Porter is a painter you should know; he also wrote intelligently about the visual arts.
Monday, November 5, 2007
"the tribe"
I finally figured out how to log back in! Anyways...
I came across a short film called, "The Tribe" on the iTunes music store...It is an 18 minute film about modern perception of Judaism and Barbies (seriously)...You can search for in just by typing in the name into iTunes, it should be the first hit, I thought it was interesting...
I came across a short film called, "The Tribe" on the iTunes music store...It is an 18 minute film about modern perception of Judaism and Barbies (seriously)...You can search for in just by typing in the name into iTunes, it should be the first hit, I thought it was interesting...
La Música
Two more bass players, spanning both ends of the tradition. The young guy is Lawrence Hsu, son of my friend Clara. He plays in a band called Phoenix Ashes. The other, in the Mao cap, backed up Peter Tosh sometime in the '70s. Of course, the classic undercover act is Ernest Ranglin (below)... Maybe that "bass" line I like so much is actually played on an arch-top...?
Sunday, November 4, 2007
melodians
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