1. Activate figure/ground relationships.
Jennifer Mao Figure Ground
2. Subvert verisimilitude.
Glenn
Ligon Malcolm X (small version 1) #1, 2001; painting; paint and
screen print on primed canvas, 48 in. x 36 in. (Image via)
3. No line unchallenged.
Sigmar Polke, Over the Rainbow, 2006 (obit here)
4. No dead edges.
Andrew Dadson, Plank Lean Painting #2, 2010.
(detail) Oil on canvas.
60 x 60 x 10 inches
5. Color needs a crew.
Robert Ryman (His white on white in white qualifies.) Ledger, 1982. (Image via)
6. How carries what.
Mark Mumford, Hold Still, 2003
Ink on paper
7. Ransack the past (be a chop shop).
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by
year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter –
tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further… And one
fine morning –
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into
the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
8. Let ripe go rotten.
Joan Snyder Rain, 2009
oil, acrylic, burlap, seeds, paper mache, on linen
39″ x 54″
9. Like a thermos, contain heat without radiating it.
2009
Oil on canvas
26″ x 32″
10. Flat out, flesh in.
Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented – DeKooning
10 x 8 x 5 inches
Small wonder there is so little enthusiasm for painting if I understand this post. I suggest these works are universally derivative and uninspired.
JVK
I love it! VanKirk has no sense of humor or insight!
Prairie Mary