RE: [microsound] herbs&spice and everything nice

[David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

well i was thinking more about late modernist painting:

....the late modernist notion which found  its most significant expression in
Clement  Greenberg's representational world. The basic  tenet of his theory
was that, during its golden  era, modernism had reduced everything which
was not aesthetic in order to express the pure  essence. As a result of this
process of reduction,  modernist painting eventually found itself in a
blind alley in which internal issues became  increasingly esoteric. All that
remained was an  interest in the minutia of painting, where every  decision
about the thickness of the stretcher or the size of the grain of the canvas
assumed the proportion of important artistic decisions.

sounds oddly familiar...

David Fodel
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Wild Oats Markets
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Boulder, CO 80301
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> From: 	Mark Khemma
> Reply To: 	microsound
> Sent: 	Wednesday, February 6, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: 	microsound
> Subject: 	RE: [microsound] herbs&spice and everything nice
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, David Fodel wrote:
> 
> > for me this is about the late modernist painters who found themselves
> > wrapped up in the surface of their canvas, and the paint... as opposed
> to
> > any "pictorial" references in their work...a stepping away from the idea
> of
> > painting as representation of anything in the real world, or even as a
> > window to an expressive inner world but more a stark minimalism that
> became
> > centered formal structures, on the medium/tools of painting, stripping
> away
> > content until nothing remained but paint on canvas (or rather perhaps
> paint
> > and canvas)...
> you know at first glance i hated mondrian's primary color series, and
> probably to most people his earlier "realistic" floral paintings would
> have been prefered. But as i delved further into mondrians reasoning it
> became apparent to me as to why he did what he did. his display of primary
> colors and simple lines made the audience realize (or at least made me
> realize) the importance the basics, the building blocks of the real world.
> not devoid of the real world.
> 
> -mmaarrkk
> 
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