“I just thought of something”, I said to my husband.
I could feel him twitch a bit, not knowing what I was going to say, and probably expecting something that rhymed with ‘the refrigerator is broken’.
“The reason why there has been no new art movement in many years is because there is nothing to ‘rebel’ against. Everything is permissible.”
I could hear him relax as he finished packing his lunch.
A few minutes earlier we had been discussing I had been expounding on Monet’s Haystacks.
“Monet painted the same field of haystacks over and over and over again, capturing the various ways light at different times of day, with different weather conditions, would affect the color and the impression of color on the haystacks. It wasn’t at all about haystacks. It could have been anything done over and over. Impressionism was so different from the realistic portraits and historical stuff that was considered conventional at the time.”
That’s when it hit me.
Impressionism was a rebellion against the days’ conventional art. And we just don’t have anything to rebel against anymore.
So, I’m thinkin’…what could possibly be the next big dramatic ART MOVEMENT?
Leslie
well with nothing to rebel against, its hard to think of what could be the next art movement. I think the main problem is that almost everything has been done and that in this day and age its really hard to shock someone which can be a huge part of an art movement.
Comment by Jennifer Rose — September 4, 2009 @ 3:33 pm
Hey! I love Karin Jurick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also have a soft spot in my heart for cupcakes with thick frosting and sprinkles, as my kid would spend HOURS each year working on the cupcakes she’d take to school when it was her birthday. We’d make and I’d frost the cupcakes, and then I’d turn her loose with the tubes of colored frosting (with fancy tips!), and all different kinds of sprinkles.
Just the smell made my teeth ache.
Fancy cupcakes remind me of her pleasure in decorating them, and I especially enjoy the artful kind that don’t smell of sugar, fat, and artificial color!
She loves to bake, now, but doesn’t spend so much time with the vivid frosting and sprinkles…………
I like your cupcake/sprinkles/shadow, and how fun that it is part of Karin’s challenge.
Speaking of Karin and my daughter in the same breath — my kid took a pic of someone in a room with Monet’s waterlilies that reminded me so much of Karin’s work. The woman’s clothes were the same colors as in the painting……… The woman is looking right at my daughter, rather than at the pic, but otherwise, totally made me think of Karin’s work………………
Comment by Vicki in Michigan — September 10, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
Vicki…you must have tried to lick the icing, and wound up over at the Drawing A Day blog!
Isn’t Karin Jurick’s stuff sublime?
What a neat set of coinkydinks this post posed for you! I am tickled!
Comment by leslie — September 10, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
I do love KJ’s work!
I figure the coinkydinks are just more proof of our clone status……………
ps — we say “I am tickled”, too.
Comment by Vicki in Michigan — September 10, 2009 @ 8:26 pm