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2/1/2017 artists

Lothar Hempel - all kinds of image making. painting, sculpture, video, photos

Fred Lonidier - images about work, more cataloging.

Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó - somewhat scientific studies. looks very documentation-ish

Nick Relph

Till Krause

Cara Benedetto

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1/25/17 Artists

Mierle Laderman - maintenance art, nyc garbage project. chrome garbage truck. performance art using maintenance as material.

Arakawa + Gins - architects, crazy designs. mechanism of meaning. great book on their theories of cognition through a series of different instruction panels. 

Seth Price - post internet artist? uh not really sure. he seems to do a lot. do more reading about him and by him. 

Tauba Auerbach - digital, super aestheticy, making familiar objects out of unfamiliar materials.

Christopher Wool - big text, spray paint, abstract, aggressive. has lots of writings on his website

Wade Guyton - printer as an imperfect machine that can be manipulated. contemporary. big stuff

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Canvas, what is it? I don’t actually know. I don’t know what its made out of. Maybe its like little bits of yarn or fabric weaved together. I say weaved because it appears weaved. It appears as a grid. Somewhat like a field of wheat is a grid or maybe thats planted in rows. I think that maybe you could use the grain from corn to make the canvas. Oh wait its cotton isn’t it! Cotton canvas or linen, which I believe is also from cotton. Okay so canvas is from cotton. Shirts are from cotton. Cotton reminds me of slavery and the south. Now it has ads about positivity and colbie callat. Its an easy fabric to deal with. It is cheap, it is strong, it holds dyes well, it is a democratic fabric. It is naturally occuring. Enough about that though, once cotton has been made into a canvas it is no longer seen as cotton or its own materials. Now it is a platform for an artist to act upon. I wonder if painters have theories about canvas. I find if you spend enough time around something you develop theories on why the behave the way the do. Canvas works better when primed with gesso. It makes it easier to apply paint to the surface. It holds the medium better, it then presents it better to the viewer. The artist can choose to use gesso or leave the canvas raw. I like it better when its raw, the color of raw canvas is pleasing. Especially with black and white. Franz Kline appreciated the color of canvas, I think he said something about that being an important part of his work. So canvas, in a way, is the invisible element of a painting. It is crucial to the painting work, but it is often completely hidden. I’ve seen it referenced sometimes in galleries on information cards like so:

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you’ve probably seen something like this too. We are aware we’re looking at canvas but we don’t care about the canvas. It serves a necessary function and nothing else. Well what if canvas becomes the medium? How could its current qualities be incorporated into a new work of art? Something that pays respect to its history, but then does something new and inventive with it. Canvas is usually stretched, what if you painted the painting on un-stretched canvas? Why would someone do that other than to do something new? If you piled it in a corner it might look like a dead body wrapped in cloth. If you hung it on a wall, it would be at the mercy of gravity to give it an alluring form. Or at the mercy of the artists hand to hang it in an alluring form. 

What kind of images are usually presented on canvas? I would say probably the female form or nature. Why do people like to look at these things so much? Because they’re beautiful? Beauty is an opinion, but a common one is that girls bodies are good to look at and so is a tree and a river. I guess people want to paint things on canvas that they find important enough to take the time to recreate on canvas. But what about abstract painters? I think their paintings are beautiful sometimes and they don’t try to paint anything with a physical form. They’re trying to recreate the feeling of beauty in a visual form. What if you recreate beauty in your actions to a medium, not with a medium. Maybe the beauty comes in the artists desperate attempt to recreate what they want most. 

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感情的な美学

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canvas

you can burn it, you can wear it, you can print on it, you can wrap it, you can dye it, you can stab it, you can rip it, you can talk to it, you can hold it, you can drop it, you can sing to it, you can run with it, you can walk with it, you can eat a meal with it, you can stretch it, you can fold it, you can analyze it, you can touch it, you can look at it, you can paint it, you can spit on it, you can soak it, you can piss on it, you can take a photo of it

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