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#Art 102 Panting Reading Notes

##Painting the Task of Mourning Bois

• Elaborates deeply on the motivation to paint and whether or not people can obtain that motivation for long.
• Also mentions the termination of modernism and the next step in painting.
• Interesting quote "The sole value of abstract art is to raise the values of traditional art"
• Views mourning as a connection to Modernism, which signals it's end.
• Goes into detail about the swing of the pendelum, and how simulation penetrates the abstract form.

####Thoughts:

Interesting idea about mourning, but I feel it's a little too general and broad. It ideally should b a little more focused. The topics are meaningful though.

##The Primacy of Perception ###The eye and Mind

Notes:

• The reading presents interesting concepts about the mind and an artist's vision, along with how they are connected.
• The piece goes on to explain the existence of the artist as someone who see's and is seen by the world around them. A "thing among things" is the term used to debate the existence of the artist in relationship to the things they feel and touch.
• The piece also contemplates the existence of a world where you could never see or touch your own body, but everything else.

####Thoughts

I like the ideas expressed in this piece a lot. It helps me think more about how people relate to and observe what they see in their every day lives. Part of my art is concerned with creating a form of a fantasy world that lets people observe things totally seperate from the real world.

##Fogle

Notes:

• The piece begins with discussing an Alfred Hitchcock movie
• It talks about how Alfred Hitchcocks movie, as a black comedy is about painting, and employing motifs and elements such as the memento mori, the still life, and how they are incorporated into a painting.
• In a metaphorical sense, it says this comedy develops a backdrop for a discussion of the nature of painting.
• It discusses the difference in how painting is protrayed in this particular movie versus the common theme in history for the last 150 years.

####Thoughts:

I really liked this piece, and is perhaps my favorite of the semester. Perhaps on of the most important subjects and reasons for why people paint is what keeps them going. It's very important to discuss ones motivation for painting because when people lose motivation for painting, they stop painting. When people stop making art, creativity itself stops.

##Forever Now ###Laura Hoptman

Notes:

• This piece talks about, in great detail the disregard people have for cultural artefacts and their existence in the modern world.
• A lot of art pieces today that reflect on cultural symbols of the past do not accurately represent them. They abstract away their meaning and disembody their purposes.
• The piece discusses Connors, one of the most self-conscious and thoughtful practicioners of atemporal art, and how his work represents times of the past. They go to a great length to discuss color field painters and how they construct their work.
• They also talk about the perception of color and light in a sunset painting.

####Thoughts:

Kind of a scattered piece, lacks a central idea dn focus. Discusses too broad of a topic, can't really extract a meaningful message from it as a whole.

##How's My Painting? ###Manuela Ammer

Notes:

• This piece begins with a poetic passage describing the process of painting through visceral, raw imagery. It focuses on the organic nature of painting as a compositon of earhtly elements.
• The piece discusses Nicole EisenMann, who painted the bloody orfices in 2005.
• Ammer elaborates on the meaning of expression in painting, and debates whether or not abstraction and figuration are both forms of expression.
• Ammer also discusses the significance of the interpretation of emotions from visual fields in a painting. She goes to a great length to point out sadness, weeping, and pain felt from certain images.
• The piece then discusses Gilles Deleuze's book.

####Thoughts:

I really enjoyed this piece because it explains painting from a raw, emotional stand point rather than a deep philosophical one. It argues that painting exists more from a biological and organic state rather than a political or philosophical origin.

##Looking Back ###Heffernan

Notes:

• The piece discusses many topics about painting, including the abscence of nudes from certain cave paintings. I think it's interesting that nude people can't be found in certain cave paintings.
• It discusses the standard of painting in the 1980's when the author became a painter and how it wasn't ok to paint breasts anymore.
• The author's work depicts women in unusually stressful and irritating circumstances. One painting in particular shows a woman with a plant growing out of her shirt. Very irritating.
• The author discusses Mulvey's thesis and how it's a call to arms not to stop painting, but to start imagining a different type of existence..
• The author then discusses the painting's of Bonnard, and how they relate to a hidden female figure encased by her environment.

####Thoughts:

I really like this piece because it taught me to think in ways I never imagined before. I find it very relaxing and asy to read. I like the idea about that you have to look at things n different ways to get more motivation to continue painting. Painting is a very valuable tool for me in day to day life.

##Rosenberg ###From The American Action Painters

Notes:

• The piece of reading primarly focuses on abstract expressionism and it's existence in the 1940's and 1950's. The work discusses the innovation of action painting, and it's arrival to the American art world.
• Abstract expressionism is defined as a term that applies exclusively to American painters and not their european counterparts.
• Rosenberg describes the canvas as an arena for art to act. The central ida around action painting is the act in which the paint or artwork performs in. It is a piece of motion and happening, it does not capture but portrays a scene in which it is captured.
• It conjects that new American painting during this time is not pure art, that the removal of the object from this type of painting does not obscure the goal of the painting being entirely aesthetic.
• The piece also boldly claims that a painting that acts is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

####Thoughts

This piece has some components that I agree with and some that I don't agree with. I don't agree that certain action type of paintings are entirely not able to be separated from the artist of which they originated. However, I am very drawn to the concept of an action painting. I always seek to create art which acts on it's own, which inspires sources of life and action tobe observed.

##Sandler ###Improvisation and authenticity

Notes:

• This piece begins by discussing the pros and cns of the cubist design, and how those reflect on art as a whole. Pollock, a painter that is likely linked to gesture painting is discussed in great detail as a synthetic cubist painter.
• Rosenberg's essay was reprinted in Possibiltiies 1, the first amagazine to feature a new avant-garde. This expression shows great detail to the level of art being displayed, and how it can be better interpreted by an audience.
• The same magazine also published an essay by Richard Huelsenbeck, one of the founders of the Dada movement. It's a bizarre melange of ideas, the essay includes such statements as "Death ceases to be an escape of the soul from earthly misery and becomes a vomiting, screaming and choking,".

####Thoughts:

Well thought out piece. Organized into succinct sections. Enjoyed reading it.