This article published April 19, 2008.
"But what is marginalized can also become a form of dissent, a way to counter the prevailing arguments and sidestep their pitfalls. It is hard, for example, to work small and indulge in the mind-boggling degree of spectacle that afflicts so much art today. In a time of glut and waste on every front, compression and economy have undeniable appeal. And if a great work of art is one that is essential in all its parts, that has nothing superfluous or that can be subtracted, working small may improve the odds."
After Jackson Pollock, big size painting was fashion among painters. As an indigent young artist, this article gives me a smile.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
French photographer and painter.
He is obsessive with cathing time as it pass.
His photographs were seen in 1962 by John Szarkowski, directer of Museum of Modern Art in New York when Lartigue was in his seventies.
Such subjects as automobile races, fashionable ladies at the seashore and the park, and kite flying, these photographs with every day subjects reveal his free spirit and love of life. Specially, those photographs capturing a sense of movement made me feel a sense of humor.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
White Angel Breadline
Dorothea Lange's "White Angel Breadline" showed the desperate conditions of jobless men during the Great Depression.
Near Lange’s studio a rich woman who was called the White Angel had set up a breadline for the hungry. A man in worn out clothes and hat was leaning against a wooden barrier and looking down. His hands were folded on top of a fence and there was a tin cup between his arms.
When she took the photograph, she had no idea what to do with it. Then more and more she gave herself to do this documentary. It turned out to be the beginning of a new phase in her career. From a protrait photorapher for rich people to a documantary photographer.
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