Raveling about art has been happening here since October. To keep you up to date, let’s review what was discussed over the past week:
- Politics (yes, of all things…I know); I covered both international and domestic political art, with a spotlight on artists who are bucking North Korean’s propaganda bandwagon, and made a slightly enraged comment on Shepard Fairey. Suffice it to say this will be the last mention of said artist on this blog. {My conclusion is government-endorsed political art, from fascism on, is bad art. Correct me if I’m wrong.}
- New Artist of Note; Dirk Stewen’s elegant watercolors aren’t like your grandmother’s china pattern. Unless you have a really cool grandmother.
- And Boxes; To illuminate you on the inner workings of the great and mysterious (and beautiful and intelligent and funny and kind) Art Ravels, I pictorially described my new living conditions.
Check these out and discuss. If you have an insatiable lust for more ravels, see the most interesting and discussed posts lately:
- Louise Bourgeois’ Spiders– for art that generates a reaction,
- Gorilla Aesthetics– a dash of Darwinism to your aesthetics,
- Absinthe as a Lifestyle– sometimes it’s good to be bad, and sometimes it produces / destroys artistic geniuses,
- Cindy Sherman: One Trick Pony?– that’s a question, so don’t get your panties in a bunch just yet.
As always, read, enjoy, and let me know what you think. Ravels in Review is a new idea for a weekly Friday column, so if you love it, and more importantly if you hate it, tell me. Not that this is a democracy or anything, but I’m a benevolent dictator.