"A denial of transience through an implied reconstitution of the architectural support"

There is no doubt that decisions of scale have a Formal significance, contextual significance should be equally obvious. The increased scale of painting like Jackson Pollock s’ suggest a more public arena, a society dominated by large institutions rather than private individuals. The huge scale of many paintings today function in part as a denial of transience through implied reconstitution of the architectural support. Scale always has content, yet we read it so quickly that we hardly notice.

"Appropriation"

The new york school is appropriating the avant guard baton ( the paint bush) from the paris school. After world war II new york became the capital of the art world.

"Amorphous orgy of yarn spinning"

I’m deconstructing the yale deconstructionist here. As they change the body of the text I’m changing their bodies in an amorphous orgy of yarn spinning.

"Backwater swamp"

In the 50’s during the cold war abstract expressionism was sent to Europe in a way to engage socialist realism.

"Bourgeois commando"

Marcel Duchamp was the bourgeois commando of the art world. He tore up the road that art had driven on.

"Capitalist Organization of Time I"

Modern industrialism declares war on the organic manufacture of the whole products in order to institute its rationalist labor practices. The quantified time involved in such labor lacks the organic necessity that temporal rationalization destroys is allied to times qualitative, variable, flowing nature. The time associated with biological production. Eighteenth century church clocks and bells” that called the workers to labor and the merchants to market” separated the peasantry from the natural rhythms of agrarian life. Merchants and masters created a new chronological net in which daily life was caught.

"Close reading"

"Commissar vanishes"

Stalin long before computers was using artist to erase first Lenin and then Trotsky from propaganda photos used to bolster his importance in his brand of socialism.

"Containment"

In the 50’s during the cold war abstract expressionism was sent to Europe in a way to engage socialist realism.

"Countertransferance of the Oedipus Complex"

Freud’s statement about his nanny’s attempts to “seduce” him through the Attractions of Christianity were formulated within a month (oct. 1897) of the abandonment of the seduction theory. Freud converted this experience of his own fantasy about the body& soul of the Christian other, into the universal language of the Oedipus Complex.

"Detective Sartre"

Sartre’s existentialism can be seen as perpetual moral conflict. Similar to firing a gun at your image in a hall of mirrors.

"First prize or the current value of art history"

"Fluke"

The irony of modern intellectual progress is that man’s genius discovered successive principles of determinism (Cartesian, Newtonian, Darwinian, Marxist, Freudian) that steadily attenuated belief in his own rational and volitional freedom, while eliminating his sense of being to anything more than a peripheral and transient accident of material evolution. The probability of human intelligence developing all the way from chemical ooze in the primeval ocean to its present stage solely through random mechanical processes compares to the probability of a tornado blowing through an auto wreckage yard and assembling by accident an airplane.

"Fog"

The blind leading the blind could be another title for this piece. Technology and humanity are on a tandem ride and no matter how much light we try shed on it we have no idea where technology will be taken us.

"Harried buyer"

Art became a commodity and the gallery a market, this made it possible for the harried buyer to gain in status by being seen as a “cultivated man” the change marks the passage into society of glamour & excess, where high culture takes its place in a consumer society.

"Homage to Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger"

This image is pretty straightforward, it’s an homage to Holzer and Kruger the two most successful and famous female artist in America. I add just a little humor and irony by placing them in a truck because their work typically hits you like a truck.

"Inadvance of title and signature"

This is a recreation of the moment when Marcel Duchamp purchased the “fountain”. The moment when twentieth century art changed forever.

"Loss of certainty"

Gödel’s therom shows that any nontrivial logic system (arithmetic) will have true statement that cannot be proven with a given set of axioms.

"Mirror Mirror"

Mirror mirror on the wall who is fairest of them all. Museums today can function a little bit like this. One example is the continued appropriation of Marcel Duchamps “ready mades”.

"Mental Act"

Today’s museumgoer can easily turn Duchamps “fountain” back into a urinal by the same mental act.

"Omniscient Narrator of Detail"

Natural selection and geological change worked unabated, silently and slowly, to differentiate species, so science patiently collects myriad examples and illustrations, finally producing the striking and irrefutable theory. There is a well-developed literature in the rhetoric of science analyzing Darwin’s narratives. Victorian fiction taught readers to imagine precisely the accumulated effects of slight variation, repeated over time, and flat, however imperfect the view of such readers, they had considerable practice conjecturing about the influences of forebears long dead upon the living. Victorian readers had learned to trust precisely the sensibility that scrutinizes and judges slight variations, the unwavering eye of the “omniscient narrator”.

"One False Step and You Produced Merely Apocalyptic Wallpaper"

Harold Rosenberg (critic) wrote what is now a famous essay about abstract expressionist in the early 50’s that is still a staple in art history courses today. In the essay he responds to public criticism that school children make these abstract expressionist color field paintings. Rosenberg said that not anyone can make these paintings, “One False Step and You Produced Merely Apocalyptic Wallpaper.”

"Posturing Postmodernism"

Postmodernism is an academic fashion show.

"Staples"

"Dark Horse of Abstraction"

The characters are Andrew Wyeth, Edward hopper, Jackson Pollock (Pollock horse) and Reginald Marsh. The Abstract Expressionist eclipsed the regionalist in the later half of the twenty-century. Like a horse race and Pollock representing the abstract expressionist and Wyeth, Hopper and Marsh the regionalist. I think to this day those large color field paintings still are placed in a more prominent place in art history then the master skills of the regionalist.

"The Media is the Messenger"

Media becomes the messengers rather than the message.

"The Safety and Danger of Abstraction"

The lighthouse is the perfect metaphor for abstract expressionism. Culture and humanity finds both safety and danger in abstraction.

"State of the Subject"

The modern human condition is essentially Freudian unbridled conflicting passions and desires, comparable to a team of wild horses inextricably connected, pulling in all directions.

"When You Learn What You are Carrying on Your Back"

There are many aspects to this piece. The title is taken from Goya who would paint clergy on the backs of donkeys. Throughout western history the donkey has been used as a symbol of humanity. If you look closely you will see Pope John Paul sitting on the donkey, this composition is taken from Georges De La Tour “Magdalen with the Smoking Flame.” This painting is significant because it was the first time Mary Magdalen was pictured as a mortal human with a contemplative gaze; she was traditionally depicted as an aged woman or in her grotto. In the early 1990’s the Vatican, after spending millions of dollars each year on mathematicians and physicists trying to disprove Galileo, finally after 350 years recognizes Galileo was right, the earth did move around the sun. This headline was on the front page of the New York Times. So in this piece the Pope is depicted as a mortal human, just like us, on the back of society.

"Abstract potential"

"Bank club"

"Birth of capital"

"Capitalist Organization of Time II"

Modern industrialism declares war on the organic manufacture of the whole products in order to institute its rationalist labor practices. The quantified time involved in such labor lacks the organic necessity that temporal rationalization destroys is allied to times qualitative, variable, flowing nature. The time associated with biological production. Eighteenth century church clocks and bells” that called the workers to labor and the merchants to market” separated the peasantry from the natural rhythms of agrarian life. Merchants and masters created a new chronological net in which daily life was caught.

"Great wheel of circulation"

"Maneuvers"

Abstract expressionist works of the cold war period, were sent abroad to champion the legitimacy of capitalist democracy over and against communist dictatorship and their support of social realism.

"Montestque steuart watch"

"Raising abstract expressionism"

"Relentless modernity"

"Safe"

"Story of the Eye"

The condition of modernism in which the eye and its object made contact with such amazing rapidity that neither one seemed any longer to be attached to its mere carnal support. Rosenberg said to understand abstract expressionism you have to have a “fast eye” who better to understand than Hank Aaron.

"Sublime Temporarily Dislocated Spectator"

Darwin shared with our cosmologist the problem of representing what seemed to be an intractable temporality. Hawkings explicitly dramatizes in “The Brief History of Time” the disjunction between the limited, individual observer and a perfected future observation. The cosmological story unrolls time backwards; cosmological talk simplifies and broadens itself, figuring its own transparency as divine. The observer extends metaphorically outside time, so in hawkings account, to know why observers and objects exist, to take up the position traditionally ascribed to god.

"Transcendence"

"Unconscious growth"

(the uncritical reliance on the alleged self-healing virtues of Creationism and Formalism)the puritanical urgency of the modernist imperative was based on hidden residues of mythic structures which still carried with them the intensity of divine promise. Clearly, progress has been expected to produce, in time, a human condition as so improved as to be virtually edenic: a state so good that the idea of further progress not only becomes unfathomable but impossible. One thinks of those prophetic cults that have expected the millennium (or the revolution, or the Aquarian Age) to arrive within a few days, years, decades. In this sense modernism was yet another disguised form of the Christian prophesy of the end of history, and the attainment of the historical edenic paradise.

"Untitled (Martin Luther King)"