tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post825910311976420290..comments2024-03-03T15:01:00.402-05:00Comments on Joanne Mattera Art Blog: FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-SuspenseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-32091186356084903172008-12-20T18:02:00.000-05:002008-12-20T18:02:00.000-05:00Larry,I was responding specifically to your commen...Larry,<BR/><BR/>I was responding specifically to your comment about the little umbrellas (re Jacob Hashimoto's work, which I find to be a unique combination of culture, craft and art), and generally to your comment about amassing "a hundred or thousand of anything."<BR/><BR/>I don't disagree with you about the problem of copycatting. I did a post about it a while back, and it got quite a bit of Joanne Matterahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564594823192456546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-26150844015358734052008-12-20T12:00:00.000-05:002008-12-20T12:00:00.000-05:00Joanne,Several differences btw what Newman was doi...Joanne,<BR/>Several differences btw what Newman was doing and the trend I mentioned.1-Newman's work evolved within the context of powerful movement, Abstract Expressionism. 2-He was breaking new ground. 3-His work was breaking new ground and stretching the definition of expression painting. The Tara Donovan like work I see, has none of those qualities. A lot of it is young artists looking too laurenceprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08832971473203308343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-10533100173249226732008-12-20T10:10:00.000-05:002008-12-20T10:10:00.000-05:00Larry,Your comment reminds me of a story about Bar...Larry,<BR/><BR/>Your comment reminds me of a story about Barnett Newman (told in the wonderful film about him that accompanied a huge show of his work a few years ago at the Philadelphia Museum). I'm giving you the gist, not the verbatim:<BR/><BR/>Someone says, "I saw Newman's new paintings. They're all the same." <BR/><BR/>The friend said, "You mean they're all the same color?"<BR/>"Mo"<BR/><BR/Joanne Matterahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564594823192456546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-23127750129681842252008-12-19T09:25:00.000-05:002008-12-19T09:25:00.000-05:00I don't know about you but I'm getting sick of all...I don't know about you but I'm getting sick of all the copycat art I see at different fairs and galleries.<BR/>Most prominent is the repetitive object pieces, the Tara Donovan knockoffs. <BR/>How much creativity does it take to string bars of soap, or stick little umbrellas on a background or for that matter take a hundred or a thousand of anything and put it together on a background. <BR/><BR/>laurenceprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08832971473203308343noreply@blogger.com