Inspiring....

I have seen this artist's work before but never put a name to it.  It was her abstract/realism mix that was my primary reason for getting into acrylics.  Everything I had seen until that point didn't interest me, in the medium, but when I saw this ladies work I became a believer.  


Check her out.  And read about her out look on art.  If you aren't inspired and blown away THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU.


BARBARA ROGERS

We Need A Changing Of The Guard

"We observe and appropriate style and ideas from what is peripheral, and to assume that it came from within, would be pretty narcissistic. That idea was rooted in the 1950's and we have since moved beyond it." 
   Hilary Pecis  

   Quote from April 2011 issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.

  O.K., so what Miss Pecis has to say, in the quote above, seems strait forward enough.  In a world that is getting smaller and smaller all we are doing is borrowing ideas from different sources that surround us, reconstructing them and putting them out there for the general, consuming, public to enjoy.  There is no invention, no muse, no higher purpose, no God, no science or discipline in art, just an ability to "observe and appropriate style and ideas".  Everything else is "Narcissism" of an older forgotten age.  Did I mention that Miss Pecis has an M.F.A. and I like her art (even though it is all computer made)?   Yet I have to ask: "What is the point of a M.F.A. in this ideal?" Could it be that to except this ideal one must get that Master Of Fine Arts?  No wonder they defend it with such vigor! They wouldn't have anything to teach if they lost their ideals and it would get expensive to have to start buying art supplies again!!!


I know, I need to get off this "kicking the dead horse of Post Modern Art" or I will be in danger of becoming the Rush Limba (don't have a clue how to spell his last name) of the art world.........  Well, I doubt it but I will quit ragging on this subject I promise :) 


Here are a couple paintings from my last commissioned project.