In Melbourne and Sydney in the early 1970s, certain members of Theatre of the Actors of Regard made it their practice to visit Minimalist and Conceptualist art exhibitions and enquire of the director or a member of staff :
"Oh, is there nothing on?"
Recounted from the other side, one may still hear gallery personnel tell of those who used to come into an exhibition and say :
"Oh, is there nothing on?"
That came to mind while enjoying this artist's response...
...to one stater of the obvious. This is from a U.S. postcard series - THOSE FOOLISH QUESTIONS - published by G & B in 1910.
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
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we have regarded
as figures-on-ground :
- a red vertical (The Wild, Barnett Newman, 1950)
- a black horizontal (Black painting, Mel Ramsden, 1966)
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Cross (Small Cross in Black over Red on White), 1920-27, Stedelijk Museum : johan's photoblog
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
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Today, we attempt to focus on
the ground/
ground-on-ground/
The Ground/
(1) In the 1910 postcard scene :
two figures on a ground
regard
with language and other projections
a white-on-white (sic) ground (sic)
(2) In the TAR scene below :
two figures on a ground
regard
with language and other projections
a white-on-white (sic) ground (sic)
"It goes without saying that when artists attend exhibitions, they look with exceptional intensity: on the initiative of the Rheinische Post, the artist Günther Uecker and Marion Ackermann, director of the Kunstsammlung, visited the exhibition “Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian: The Infinite White Abyss” together at the K20.
They spoke about the artistic approaches of this trio of avant-garde artists, about their compositions, about German postwar art – and of course, about the color white.
For the curator Marion Ackermann, this is the most radical picture in the exhibition: Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism (White Planes in Dissolution), 1917-18, on loan from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam."
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA