Carl Radke - Glass Artist
gallery
http://www.chasengalleries.com/Radke/Radke.html
mdeli
No-Skill- Realism.
Great art status for No-Skill-Realism started in this century with the
works of the classical Modern Academics from Cezanne, Matisse (the
most important of the lot) and Picasso and advanced through the worst
of Expressionism and on to our presently fashionable big canvas
realist potzers like Hockney and Rivers etc.
This alone shows that we are not in a century of pure abstraction.
Even the claims of de Kooning experts attest to this. No one could say
that his Keane like goo-goo eyes and occasional naughty part aren't
recognizable.
Most people are not offended by pure abstraction in the visual sense.
Mondrian, Kandinski, Pollock, Rothko etc. certainly have a graphic
attraction equal to that of nice towels. By comparison the master
works of NSR are no sight for sore eyes. They are visually abominable.
After many years of flat Greenbergian asceticism, NSR is again OK in
critical eyes. This, as long as it contains lots of drawing errors,
remains mindlessly simplistic, doesn't tell any stories (lest it be
labeled illustration) unless its about misery, and has an abstract
section (a few obvious flat schmiers). Oh yes it has to come in
Rubenesque sizes so that the pretense of importance and the artists
incompetence is equals that of any nearby abstraction.
...no skill no art
Modern Academic Art is incompetence in search of an idea.
Tired of Modern Art? Check out my web page!
Bob & Dale Ford
Started to wonder where you have been.
Did you miss post or are you jacking this glass artist?
Dale