richter polke at christies auction house
Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 1:54 pm
http://www.christies.com/privatesales/richter-polke/
1. Is there something depressing about shows by auctioneers, naked selling of museum-quality show?
2. Great moment of painting coalescing into painting from photos. Richter/Polke shamelessly reveal the source (though Degas Sickert etc did some similar things).
3. In the loss of the importing of the 3D into the 2D, important?
3a. Is painting from photos bad? (almost all good figurative painters work from photos or collaged images or in the style of collage/photo ie flat stuff)
4. Often artists are better before they get good/slick at doing what they've discovered. eg blurring polke dots.
5. It's not a beautiful show.
6. Many people love Richter because they look like photos, not because it's interesting for paintings to capture the surface of photos, which are often where memory inheres.
7. It's a better show to think about than to look at.
1. Is there something depressing about shows by auctioneers, naked selling of museum-quality show?
2. Great moment of painting coalescing into painting from photos. Richter/Polke shamelessly reveal the source (though Degas Sickert etc did some similar things).
3. In the loss of the importing of the 3D into the 2D, important?
3a. Is painting from photos bad? (almost all good figurative painters work from photos or collaged images or in the style of collage/photo ie flat stuff)
4. Often artists are better before they get good/slick at doing what they've discovered. eg blurring polke dots.
5. It's not a beautiful show.
6. Many people love Richter because they look like photos, not because it's interesting for paintings to capture the surface of photos, which are often where memory inheres.
7. It's a better show to think about than to look at.