Anodyne
Friday, November 04, 2005
 

An Arrangement in a Bathroom, 2005 -- v.3, re-shot to eliminate a nagging problem in the lower left hand corner

I first read Frank Stella's Norton lectures, collected as Working Space, in university. Stella argues that the standard divisions between "abstract" and "representational" art are nonsense; through careful readings of works by painters like Rubens and Caravaggio, he demonstrates how representational art can actually depict space in extremely complex ways. At first I was wary of Stella's arguments, fearing them as apologias for his brightly painted relief sculptures. Then I saw Rubens' Entombment (c. 1612) at the Getty, and spontaneously converted to Stella's point of view.
- posted by cjb @ 12:44 AM


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