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quirkblog: Ed Clark, body and mind

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Ed Clark, body and mind. Ed Clark’s recent show. At Tilton Gallery, entitled “Big Bang,” was full of resonant and rapturous paintings. 73 1/2 x 54 1/2 inches. 53 1/4 x 66 inches. 81 x 64 1/2 inches. Detail Untitled, 2009. Clark, now in his mid-80s, paints using brooms on raw canvas laid on the floor. Part 2 of that documentary is here. In her appreciation of the work of choreographer Pina Bausch. Reviewing Wim Wender’s 3-D documentary of Bausch and her company, Hustved says. Author of Descartes' Error.

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quirkblog: January 2012

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An abstract painting is not an idea, nor is it devoid of ideas. Nicholas Krushenick, “Outspan,”. 1968, Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 72 inches. An abstract painting is not solely an object, nor can it be separated from its object-ness. Pat Steir, “Green, Gold and Umber”. 2009-10, Oil on canvas, 60 1/2 x 51 in. An abstract painting does not depict, nor does it turn its back on the world. Norman Bluhm, “Aegean Angel,”. 1988, oil on canvas, 66 x 66 inches. Joan Snyder, “Are Mine,”. Links to this post.

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quirkblog: A little parable

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Notes on contemporary art and related areas of interest by Christopher Quirk. Contact: christopherquirk[ at ]icloud.com. Alex ross: the rest is noise. Two coats of paint. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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quirkblog: April 2011

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Perfection is less interesting". Anne Carson, The Paris Review, The Art of Poetry No. 88, Fall 2004. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Notes on contemporary art and related areas of interest by Christopher Quirk. Contact: christopherquirk[ at ]icloud.com. Perfection is less interesting. Alex ross: the rest is noise. Two coats of paint. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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quirkblog: June 2011

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A reader asked me last week why I have a photo of Newgrange in the header of the blog. Newgrange. Is a group of Neolithic mounds and structures about 40 miles north of Dublin. The World Heritage Site. Is also called Brú na Bóinne, which translates from the Irish roughly as “Palace on the Boyne,” and the River Boyne circumambulates three sides. Entrance to Newgrange mound. Photo courtesy Locutus Borg, via Wikipedia. Inside the Newgrange passageway during the solstice. Photo by. At present, for better or w...

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quirkblog: My Axioms

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An abstract painting is not an idea, nor is it devoid of ideas. Nicholas Krushenick, “Outspan,”. 1968, Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 72 inches. An abstract painting is not solely an object, nor can it be separated from its object-ness. Pat Steir, “Green, Gold and Umber”. 2009-10, Oil on canvas, 60 1/2 x 51 in. An abstract painting does not depict, nor does it turn its back on the world. Norman Bluhm, “Aegean Angel,”. 1988, oil on canvas, 66 x 66 inches. Joan Snyder, “Are Mine,”. 25 January, 2012 18:10.

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quirkblog: April 2014

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169;Bracha Ettinger, 2005. I never met Jean-François Lyotard, though I would have loved to. A friend of mine studied with him at the graduate program at UC Irvine and told me a few winning stories. One was from a party, where Lyotard arrived in splendid style, sporting a Colombo-worthy trench coat, a surgically-attached Galois, and two bottles of bourbon—one for the party and one for himself. Another person whose work has been. Robert Irwin
, Excursus: Homage to the Square. The life of a writer is a lone...

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quirkblog: July 2013

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We went to see the marvelous El Anatsui show at the Brooklyn Museum. A couple months ago. The exhibition closes on 18 August so I thought it a good time to share some photos. I was also listening to a TED talk. By Murray Gell-Mann this afternoon, as well as an interview. He did with my friend, the brilliant and charming Mary-Charlotte Domandi at KSFR in Santa Fe, which raised a connection with El Anatsui's work. If you can stop in your efforts will be rewarded. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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quirkblog: Some thoughts on Irwin's "Whose Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue3"

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Some thoughts on Irwin's "Whose Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue3". As I mentioned in the prior post, something I found noteworthy in viewing Dorsky’s films was the heightening of the sense of perception, awareness and attentiveness, and how that persisted beyond the darkness of the theater. It put me in mind of what occurred during and after seeing Robert Irwin’s Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue. At Pace in New York on a nasty February day in 2007. Was duplicated while watching Dorsky’s films&#4...

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quirkblog: November 2010

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Bend in Forest Road,. Letter to Clara Rilke-Westoff from R. M. Rilke. 21 October, 1907. From Letters on Cézanne. Edited by Clara Rilke-Westhoff, translated by Joel Agee, 1985. Links to this post. Well, you got there by yourself.”. A few weeks later it had turned into this:. When we do see an astounding color, it is unforgettable, like the late spring day I saw one of these outside my window in Brooklyn:. Photo by Glen K. Peterson. Race Track (South Africa),. And a bit later this:. Links to this post.