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kenboe 11/11/2008 05:53 PM Report
People who don't like modern art don't like art.
Larry Simons 05/15/2008 11:31 AM Report
I don't watch television and I've never seen Charlie Rose but a friend who knows I'm a fan of Jasper Johns' art forwarded this discussion to me. Responding to earlier comments, I would tell Nick that one reason for Johns' self confidence could be that one of his paintings just sold for 80 million dollars, the most ever for a work of a living artist. While not a grey painting,it hung at the entrance of the recent Met show which was a delight even if less so than the Johns retrospective at MOMA a few years ago. To those who criticized Johns' work, I say art is what an artist says it is and there are no universal standards for what is good or bad art, only personal opinions. Barbara Shema says it best. Making art is all about the artist's use of his creative energy. Any discussion about quality or meaning is secondary.
TOM TOPERZER 05/06/2008 07:23 PM Report
WHY WHY WHY does Charlie wait until the very last few days of an exhibition before he does an interview / show on an exhibition? Please! In the future PLEASE do interviews / shows about art exhibitions of such importance in the first few days rather than the last few days. One can only imagine how important it could have been for people, especially young people who may not know Jasper Johns is "One of the most important living artists" to have the opportunity to schedule a trip to see the exhibition with enough notice of this event. Such exhibitions as "GRAY" have the power at least the potential power to change or focus the life of a creative person. Thank you for your interest in the VISUAL ARTS and please do more such art exhibition programs in the future.
Nick 05/06/2008 11:35 AM Report
Jasper Johns hasn't painted a good painting in decades. Go to the Met and see the Poussin THEN go and see the Johns. One painter is a giant, the other a pygmy. Johns suffers from the same thing a lot of American artists suffer from - misplaced self-confidence. Richard Serra, James Turrell, Ed Rushca, and a few others are the only American artists whose self-confidence is certainly justified.
Kingsley 05/06/2008 12:17 AM Report
I love Charlie Rose, but he is entirely too deferential to postwar modern art and its so-called experts and practitioners. When has this program ever aired a ~critical~ discussion of contemporary art? As in, isn't it possible the end of representational art was a step ~backward~? Isn't it possible that the absence of beauty, symmetry, form, clarity, and meaning from contemporary art is a symptom of a ~sickness~ in our culture? Does Charlie Rose see no difference in fundamental artistic merit between a Jasper Johns flag (I can paint a flag too), and, say, a Goya?
Frank Bellini 05/04/2008 04:11 AM Report
Where is your Meg O'Sullivan video?
Lance M. Grolla 05/03/2008 07:47 AM Report
Jasper Johns Exhibit in Grey. AN UNTRAINED FARCE. How can museum directors continue to support such childish, unskilled, personal experiments? This so called art only has meaning to those with very LOW EXPECTATIONS and simply buy into it because someone supposedly trained to judge art said it was new, bold, pioneering. They are the kind of art appraisers who are CONNED BY PICASSO'S ABSTRACTIONS. Picasso simply saw abstractionism as a fad and a way to make a buck. Jasper, who doesn't posses any of Picasso's talent, somehow has managed to con a gullible following.
Barbara Shema 05/03/2008 12:38 AM Report
I just watched the show, and as an artist understand why JJ did not appear on the show. He makes art rather than talks about art. Appreciate the art...but don't explain it as if you know what the artist was experiencing while making the art. No one but the artist can do that...and in most cases the artist won't want to explain it, but will let the art stand for itself.