All classes this week:
Happy New Year!
During the holiday break I had a chance to get to New York and see the dekooning retrospective at MOMA. What a treat! The earlier work seemed a little too indebted to Picasso and European
Modernism, but then in the early 50's he broke through and exploded into his brilliant and raw female nude series. He worked and scraped and wiped the paint into an amazing display of painterly language and psychlogical evidence of mid-twentieth-century angst and pleasure.
I have the catalogue and would love to discuss the work with any artist in the class.
On the floor below at MOMA, I encounted this great Cy Twombly painting, "Leda and the Swan" and found it an interesting antidote for an overdose of deKooning. It gave me an idea for an assignment, if you are interested in trying one: do a painting, drawing, assemblage or any combination of those in black white and gray.
See you next week, john.
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