Scaling a Minimalist Wall With Bright, Shiny Colors
By Megan • Jan 15th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Holland Cotter reports for The New York Times:
“YONKERS — “Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985,” at the Hudson River Museum, documents the last genuine art movement of the 20th century, which was also the first and only art movement of the postmodern era and may well prove to be the last art movement ever.
P&D artists were scattered geographically. Some — Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Miriam Schapiro — were in California. Others — Cynthia Carlson, Brad Davis, Valerie Jaudon, Jane Kaufman, Joyce Kozloff, Tony Robbin, Ned Smyth, Robert Zakanitch — were in New York. As a group they found an eloquent advocate in the critic and historian Amy Goldin, who was immersed in the study of Islamic art. And they had an early commercial outlet in the Holly Solomon Gallery in SoHo.
They all asked the same basic question: When faced with a big, blank, obstructing Minimalist wall, too tall, wide and firmly in place to get over or around, what do you do? And they answered: You paint it in bright patterns, or hang pretty pictures on it, or drape it with spangled light-catching fabrics. The wall may eventually collapse under the accumulated decorative weight. But at least it will look great.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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