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"It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds its own technique. [...] The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing nature, such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world—in other words—expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."
Jackson Pollock in a 1950 interview with William Wright, quoted from Art in Theory, Blackwell Publishers, 1992, p. 575-576)
There's a nice new audioblog on the block. Sardonic. Insightful. mp3s. After Birth of the Cool.
I have always disliked Henry Moore's sculpture with what you might call a passion. His big holey ladies creep me out. But I can't help feeling a soft-spot for this one outside the Art Gallery of Ontario because lots of people, some of them adults, really do enjoy smacking it to make sounds and clambering on it. The AGO has a ton of Henry Moore's indoors too.
 John Marriott, Where the cat's at, video projection and colour photograph, 1999. (taken from here) | This image is from artist John Marriott's video, Where the cat's at, in which a cat wanders about the AGO and seems to have a particularly intense time (slinking around low to the ground with it's mouth open) in the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre. There's an old shotgun review by Reid Diamond online here. |
While on the subject of the AGO's permanent collection, I think Richard Hill's curation Speaking about Landscape, Speaking to the Land is well worth seeing. The room highlights Rebecca Belmore's big megaphone, with iconic Canadian landscape paintings from (roughly) 120 years of history hung on all the walls around it. Nice to see N.E. Thing next to Emily Carr! And that great big Jack Chambers painting of the 401 has always been a favourite of mine.
 Speaking about Landscape, Speaking to the Land, installation view (taken from here) |
 Jack Chambers 401 Towards London No. 1, 1968-1969 (taken from here) |