Review | The painting looks l...

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Result #1

The painting looks like an oil painting as it has a smooth and buttery feel. Despite this, Burns creates texture through tonal differences, like the shadows for the architecture in the distance, and the dry feeling through the earth cracking on the ground. This is a a futuristic artwork that is relating to the alien world. Painted by Jim Burns. <|startoftext|>Ive seen a lot of hand paintings lately. A good number of them were taken from sketchbooks, a large number were like book illustrations in color. But their quality was uneven and, in general, they were about half as good as any other type of painting. Also, the pictures were in a color that was too far away to be clearly identifiable, which meant they had to be painted in a manner that would not leave too much after the fact. As such, some of them were like possible interpretations of the other pictures. A few of them, like Doubletake, 1987, are like pictures by two of the best painters of the past few years, Thomas Struth and Gary Stephany, and they all seem to have had a lot of fun making them. This show, however, was a real disappointment.The works were all monochrome, no different from the white canvases, but with a brushy or patchy texture. The paintings appeared to be abstract or if the word was not entirely right, architectural. A lot of these pieces looked like generic genre paintings. I didnt recognize any of them as such because they looked so dry and uninspired. Given the choice, I would rather sit in a theater mood, but that wasnt the case with these paintings. They seemed to be embarrassed by the fact that they were about to be discovered. The sense of self-consciousness was thickened by the fact that they were merely aspects of a technical vocabulary that has grown sophisticated enough to do a convincing painting. Also, there was a sense of absurdism in this show, as in many hand paintings. I can imagine all sorts of subjects in the style of Mr. Newmans paintings, but Mr. Newmans subjects are so intensely personal, they are often lost in the abstracted color.

Result #2

In addition to these paintings, Ginsberg and three others, worked in the galleries from July through September, and made similar works with less control. Ginsbergs recent exhibition included his two-dimensional collages which combine silk-screening, paintbrush and watercolor brush. These collages are less imposing than Ginsbergs abstract paintings and are more comfortable. Ginsberg is particularly successful with collages which are inflected with color, and make strong color contrasts. But, in general, the collages are like old-school photo art, and fail to convince. The silk-screened collages, not to mention the work of a couple of other painters, are tasteless, and paint-stick and ink art.

Result #3

<|startoftext|>The visual puns are everywhere. Theres the primitive shaligem, and the art world has always been heavily influenced by the form. So its no mean statement to point out the roots of Conceptual art, or to be overly affected by their rambunctiousness. Theres a nice young Texan going there with a familiar Texas wadbag, and the pun is on a paper rocket. We're not even sure whether it is a pun on the puns. The bigger question is what the pun means; its certainly not a pun on the puns. But theres a big sulk on the side of the rocket. Its a loaded one, and its a shame the painting is a video.This is a far more conventional and obvious example than the early 70s paintings that focused on the absent center of the image. But where they were enamored with the hidden exterior, in the late 70s they became content with the outer. We saw their edgy style (and later their measured color) as if they were hinterland immigrants who were in a symbiotic relationship with the art world. But then, in the 80s, when the works are frequently still lifes (and still bolder), we are struck with their shifting, fluid, enigmatic pose.

Result #4

The painting looks like an oil painting as it has a smooth and buttery feel. Despite this, Burns creates texture through tonal differences, like the shadows for the architecture in the distance, and the dry feeling through the earth cracking on the ground. This is a a futuristic artwork that is relating to the alien world. Painted by Jim Burns. Get it? Get it. The delirious dreams of the stateside stereo DJ and iconoclastic logician are the stuff of high-speed, cheesy, raucous, and hilarious grotesqueness. Distorted rips of T-shirt shapes serve as nipples. A Dick Dudleys song jumps up and down on a vacant hamburger. A cowboy boots out of a sandwich and shakes his ass. A crouching voice-over artist suggests: TAKE A SINGLE SANDWICH. A man with a mallet affronts a fly-fingered hench in a song that starts, WHAT KNEW? The voice-over is followed by a short break. A man with a moustache intones, I HAVE AN EYE. The voice-over is followed by another split-second sound-track, this one a fist-shaking, Jack-in-the-Pulpit laughter. A taped voice-over is followed by another split-second sound-track, this one a man explaining that he is blind. He appears to be saying something as he describes his blind spot. The man is visibly frustrated, and, like the man with the moustache, the laughter of the little men who sit around the stereo has been more of a pain in the ass than the hamburger. The man is clearly impatient with his problems with sight. He gets up and walks out of the restaurant. He walks into the hallway of the station house. The voice-over is over. The sound track stops. The voice-over is repeated and over. The voice-over is followed by another split-second sound-track. The voice-over is followed by another split-second sound-track, this one a man on a lazy afternoon walks into the parking lot, takes a baseball bat from his hat, and begins to swing.

Result #5

The painting looks like an oil painting as it has a smooth and buttery feel. Despite this, Burns creates texture through tonal differences, like the shadows for the architecture in the distance, and the dry feeling through the earth cracking on the ground. This is a a futuristic artwork that is relating to the alien world. Painted by Jim Burns. Abstract paintings that are hung around the gallery, and in the shows opening. have a history of being used as stage sets. To interpret this context is to create a painting of a visual metaphor for the virtual world. They are also an appropriate subject for a painting that could be viewed as a reversal of the imaginary space and time of the movie screen. The mythological associations are nostalgic, and, like some of the objects in old stage sets, seem utterly symbolic. The canvas is darkened by a blackboard-like frame with lines that spell out the title of the painting. However, instead of a visual metaphor, the title is a pictorial sign of an abstract painting. This is a visualism that refers to nothing but itself. The painting is illuminated, but never itself illuminated. It is a painting, but it is only a painting.Although Abstract Expressionism is by no means limited to the figuration of abstract shapes, it retains the ability to make symbolic statements. It is, however, abstract painting that speaks directly to its audience. The imagery is, like Abstract Expressionism, abstract, but it is all surface. The paintings are, by no means, representations of reality; they are completely fictitious. This gives them a mythic quality, which, together with their references to the grotesque, act as a symbol of the alienation of the human psyche from the world. The myth is also a kind of narrative which does not rely upon the image to establish the meaning of the painting, and, therefore, of the world. The painting is constructed, like a narrative, in the same way a play of lines, words, and story. But the paintings are not like the words that are used in speeches. They are not intellectual games, nor are they exercises in intellectual verbal sparring. Abstract Expressionist rhetoric is used in the same manner as the rhetoric of war, of rhetoric, and of politics.