Summer Evening, 1947 Edward Hopper
New York Movie, 1939 Edward Hopper
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form, and design. The term “life” as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it implies all of existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again become great.” -Edward Hopper recounting his 1953 quote for The Whitney Museum of American Art in 1959
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Rob Hornstra, Picture Perfect Episode on VBS
Taryn Simon, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters
Thurston Moore, Circulation A Take Away Show
Battles, Wall Street. A Take Away Show
Tate Modern, Cruel and Tender 2003
Evans doesn’t just show us people and things at a particular instant. He persuades us to see how irretrievably that instant has passed, to be succeeded by others, uncountable and - more to the point - unaccountable. Rather than freeze time and deliver us a neatly wrapped package of certainties, Evans’s photographs deftly fling us into an abyss where everything is up for grabs. As Evans wrote in 1931, ‘The element of time entering into photography provides a departure for as much speculation as an observer cares to make.’ So his best pictures count as works of art not because they make matters clear. They count as art because, in spite of their accuracy, they do nothing of the kind. They call their subjects into question and leave us with the task of coming up with answers.
Image © Walker Evans
Donovan, Colours
Bob Dylan and Donovan from D.A. Pennebaker’s masterpiece Don’t Look Back
Gearing up for a 70th Birthday Mr. Dylan.
In this clip Dylan SHREDS Donovan in a weird passive-aggressive jam session. You can just see Dylan waiting for Donovan to finish his “cute” song before he goes to work. If you have not seen Don’t Look Back, today would be a great day to do so.
Robert Morris, Bodyspacemotionsthings Video from the Tate Modern.
Giant System #34: Pet Lions. Out Now
Eddie Cochran, C’mon Everybody
