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Posted by i am me at 7:17 AM

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Hangeli said...

Having just read Walter L. MOSLEY's presentation of himself, as of his work- I wonder once more at such calm, controlled talent.
The Walter Lynn MOSLEY site is very, VERY good- and profane I, having never yet seen the point of still lifes...
Just one reflection- yet it's no critic: what does this perfectionist make of the 'ugliness' -or rather: the sorry, moving grotesque- which is part of our world- as well?
Yet that's a wholly different matter: relation between 'realism' and 'reality'.
I wish some day this superbly modest artist could present us with... a realism in portrait, for instance, where men and women would embody the beauty which can lie in 'ugliness'. For one who believes: the world is a whole.

9:46 PM  
Sheri McNear said...

It never ceases to amaze me how little artists really know about art. All they ever seem to know is gleaned from junior college art classes, white-wine soaked gallery openings, and that white guy on PBS with the afro who teaches you to paint a whole landscape in an hour. All great painters throughout history built their craft upon the technical AND philosophical discoveries of those who came before them. To me, it seems impossible for anyone to call him or herself an "artist" when they are ignorant of the great movements of art through history. Realism is one of those movements. And as they go, it was a fairly recent one too.

I don't remember all of the details, so I'm pulling out my trusty Janson for paraphrasing - which again, anyone who calls him or herself an "artist" should have. Realism, as it pertains to art, has NOTHING to do with "reality," (well, not in a direct way, anyhow). The word you are searching for is REPRESENTATIONALISM, because the thing in the painting looks like the object it represents. "Realism" refers to a movement in art that began around 1848 (with the French Revolution), and is attributed to Gustave Courbet (tragically, most of his work was stolen when the Nazis invaded France, and destroyed, along with a large percentage of art from the entire world, by the Allies in 1945, when we fire bombed Dresden). Courbet refused to add pathos and sentimentality to his work, nor would he paint subject-matter which he had not seen with his own eyes, "I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one," he once said. This was very different from the highly romanticized painting style of his day. He painted laborers and the common people, and displayed his work alongside more traditional historical and religious paintings in public exhibits, which caused tremendous outrage. But other painters soon followed Courbet's lead. At the Paris Exposition of 1855, Courbet distributed his "Manifesto of Realislm" while exhibiting a huge collection of realist paintings in a wooden shed he'd had specially erected for the occasion.
By the way, what are you talking about? "Moving grotesque, ugliness, supurbly modest'...is that supposed to sound intelligent? There's a difference between being intelligent and being obtuse, and you my friend, are the latter!

4:18 AM  

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