Musea E-mail Club #77
Tom Hendricks
Perhaps you've heard of the artist Jeff Coons. He's everything I
dislike about modern art (I still ask is Modern art either?) This is
the guy who in 1988 did a ceramic edition of Michael Jackson and
Bubbles. A recent article in the March 2001 Vanity Fair had these
quotes "The story captures Koons perfectly - a man who will literally
bleed for art (the preceding paragraph had him stringing canvas till
blisters popped) - though he himself doesn't actually paint or sculpt or
draw anymore; like many contemporary artists, he's more an author in the
cinematic sense of directing a complex collaborative enterprise."
Later the article shows him in his studio sitting on a file cabinet
of paints while 21 !!! - I counted them - people are working on
different drawings and paintings! And as always "I AM NOT MAKING THIS
STUFF UP!"
I have the preposterous idea that a painter should paint a drawer
draw! Go figure - or go figure drawing!
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Anyway to give you a little perspective , if you go to
http://www.lowfashion.com/
You'll see than Nathan Beach has kindly posted 3 of my collages - all
cityscapes this time. I 'd like to show them off so check them out. Also
if you are a painter, writer, musician, you might consider posting at
lowfashion. I love the opportunity to show my work.
And speaking of my art, if you go to our cover page
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com
You'll see that Donna has posted a double portrait ,"Two Women" - an
acrylic painting of mine. My computer has Monet-ed it a bit - it's
has a choppy texture while the original is smooth - probably from the
copying process, and the color is slightly more purplish than the
original, but you'll get the idea.
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The New Musea is posted on the website AND we've included a number of
extras that I was able to add due to my taking a 2 month break that
includes:
100 best Novels of all time (look for another version by Michael Helsem
coming soon)
Best painters
Sayings of Editor Art
Line Tags
Art Questions (some of the best from the past)
And its all easy to access - we have a polite cover page, and then
a contents page AND THAT'S IT. Just about everything can be accessed
from that 2nd page. Visitors welcome.
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In my mail
e and snail
1.Art shows: Exhibit of kinetic sculpture by James Crowe - very
Calder-ish
Exhibit of the Texas Sculpture Assoc. at the Bath House Cultural Center
(both Dallas area)
2. and 2 websites just for fun
http://smalltime.com/games.html
You pick a dictator or sit-com person and then the computer tries to
guess it. It got my Kelly Bundy in only a few questions.
http://www.wasarrested.com (I think that's the url, or it may have not
had the www)
You go here and its set up like greeting cards, except instead of a card
you make up a fake news story and substitute any name you want for a
druglord, or pornographer, etc. Then send the fake news story to the
person you listed.
And finally this saying from the dad on the cartoon show the Oblongs
(perfect for the art rev?)
"The only way we ever achieve change is by doing absolutely nothing over
a long period of time."
Art S Revolutionary, (Tom Hendricks
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com