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Tuesday note: Art as spectacle

Posted on August 18, 2015September 7, 2015 Posted in Meaning, Tuesday notesTagged art, Marina abramovich, performance art, spectacleLeave a comment

The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.

—Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

Tuesday note: The problem of the subject

Posted on August 11, 2015September 7, 2015 Posted in Meaning, Tuesday notesTagged abstract art, art, art subject, painting, representationLeave a comment

Tuesday note: Size vs Scale

Posted on August 4, 2015September 7, 2015 Posted in Meaning, Tuesday notesTagged art, paintingLeave a comment

“In the end size doesn’t count. Whether the easel painting is small or big is not the issue. It’s scale that counts, it’s human scale that counts. And the only way you can achieve human scale is by the content.”

Barnett Newmann

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