I've always liked Stuart Davis, who really does seem to have foreseen Pop Art decades ahead of time. One of these days I'll have to do a post on him. For now there's this video, which I realized after a couple of minutes just repeats the same images over and over. I still put it up because, hey, "Bolero."
Monday, December 4, 2017
Moving wallpaper
I've always liked Stuart Davis, who really does seem to have foreseen Pop Art decades ahead of time. One of these days I'll have to do a post on him. For now there's this video, which I realized after a couple of minutes just repeats the same images over and over. I still put it up because, hey, "Bolero."
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I've never been a fan of most Pop Art but there's a sense of warmth in his work that was never matched by artists who came after him.
Folk art is another style I didn't much appreciate until we saw the movie 'Maudie' a few weeks ago. Maud Lewis, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1903 and suffered from numerous birth defects, found and delivered great joy in her artwork. The film was quite remarkable but this little video of Maud herself a few years before she died is very lovely.
Davis was working in a different time from most folk artists. The media overload hadn't quite started, not in relative terms. That might be one of the differences you notice.
I haven't seen Maudie, although I believe it did play for a week at the Avon. The only thing I've seen with Sally Hawkins is Blue Jasmine, which is technically good but not a must-see. She's fine, though. I liked seeing Maud Lewis in action. Her work is naive in that the planes of the picture don't really interact, but there's a lot of energy apparent in her work.
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