1) Upon first reading the chapter, I was like, What's up with Trenton Doyle Hancock? How old is this guy? Was he brought up with comic book lore as well? What's the status of a created fictional marrative that is on-going in installments of his paintings? Is it art historical by formal reference? I wanted to understand his place....
Well, he's on Art 21 so apparently he does have a set place on the scene, though I still don't see why - I don't think his work is great. As I suspected he is a young artist and draws influence from childhood Sunday school stories. Also art historical formal traditions. But his narrative isn't all that stimulating, in my opinion.
Trenton Doyle Hancock
2)Fred Tomaselli's work is about transcendence, mostly through substances. Interesting: most of the effort exerted by this art and spirituality is about the transcendence of the mind visually, and Fred uses both art and substances quite literally for a visual transcendence. One thing I'm sure everyone's curious about is does he get in trouble for putting some capsuProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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s on the canvas? Technically it's possession... His work also brings up, inevitably, questions about the always-fascinating political struggle the hippies go through over illegal substances - and it's even more basic than that: the struggle of human's control over nature (and their own minds!)
Fred Tomaselli
3) Really just an observation: most of the examples are from the 80s and 90s - only two or three from this century... What's really the status of Art & Spirit today??
4) I've recently decided on my own definition of what good Art does: Art changes your thinking. When an object or artwork of any kind is viewed, it is considered, and weighed against every definition you have within yourself about reality - so by judging a work of art you judge everything that you are and hold value to as well. The article we read talked about this and stated this was why Art is the perfect vehicle with which to involve spirituality in our daily lives to make them more rich.
James Lee Byars
Mariko Mori5) Mariko Mori suggests a different tack: that overload of technological influence and media images will lead to a sort of Buddhist enlightenment. I'm not sure if I agree - I'd like to think that were possible, but it seems to be turning out different for most people - they're all getting increasingly jaded and cynical because they don't know what's real anymore. But her spaceships are awesome though.
Art & Globalism
I have no questions on this topic - we've talked about it so much and really it goes two ways for me: 1, I feel like a nomadic artist living freely and making art without rooted associations in any specific geography. 2, all the art mentioned as examples for this topic have nothing to do with who I am as an artist and I have no access to their works as an outsider of any culture but white upper class suburbia, which I maintain is the ultimate anti-culture. So, I'll try my best to participate in discussion, but basically the issue of Globalism Art is too subjective to arrive at any answers for all the questions that are brought up.
Art & Globalism
I have no questions on this topic - we've talked about it so much and really it goes two ways for me: 1, I feel like a nomadic artist living freely and making art without rooted associations in any specific geography. 2, all the art mentioned as examples for this topic have nothing to do with who I am as an artist and I have no access to their works as an outsider of any culture but white upper class suburbia, which I maintain is the ultimate anti-culture. So, I'll try my best to participate in discussion, but basically the issue of Globalism Art is too subjective to arrive at any answers for all the questions that are brought up.
Tom Friedman
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