I decided to take our "abstract" assignment all the way to non-representational. I think it's a pretty interesting piece. It can be interpreted in so many ways. Maybe it's a funnel cloud about to touch down. Maybe it's two pieces about to come together... or perhaps two pieces that seem like they should go together but for some reason they never quite seem to fit.
I certainly had some deep thoughts while painting. I hope get as much while viewing.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Going all the way!
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that looks about as non-representational as georgia o'keefe, ha ha
http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/Doctrines_Injustice/O'Keefe.jpg
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless .stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes--love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself--and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others--should we call it "joy"?
We cannot imagine a world in which women are not experienced as trivial and contemptible, in which women are not demeaned, abused, exploited, raped, diminished before we are even born--and so we cannot know what kind of art will be made in that new world. Our work, which does full honor to those centuries of sisters who went before us, is to midwife that new world into being. It will be left to our children and their children to live in it. Andrea Dworkin
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