Ashley Bickerton was een Amerikaans kunstenaar wiens kleurrijke beeldtaal mij doet denken aan de Memphisbeweging die Sottsass en de zijnen opstartten begin jaren tachtig.
Hij was knap met een mooie brede mond.
Rust zacht Ashley.
Tag Archives: American art
RIP Lee Bontecou (1931 – 2022)
In de Verenigde Staten overleed Lee Bontecou. Ze werd 91.
Ze was een beeldhouwer. Beeldhouwster zeg ik liever niet. Haar werk van gelast staal had its Giger-achtig.
Rust zacht Lee Bontecou
RIP Billy Al Bengston (1934 – 2022)
Billy Al Bengston was een Amerikaans kunstenaar.
Men verwijst dikwijls naar Bengstons link met de “kustom”-auto-scene en de motorcultuur. Hij was naar het schijnt de eerste om autolak te gebruiken in de hoge kunsten met psychedelische kleuren die vaak mandala-achtige vormen kregen.
Ik geef u een lied van Harold Budd (die stierf onlangs ook): “Three Faces West (Billy Al Bengston’s)” (2005).
RIP Claes Oldenburg (1929 – 2022)
Claes Oldenburg was a Swedish-born American sculptor known for soft sculptures such as Giant Soft Drum Set in the first half of his career, and extra large artworks in the second half of his career.
RIP Margaret Keane (1927 – 2022)
Margaret Keane was an American artist known for her kitschy paintings of subjects with big eyes.
A resurgence of interest in Margaret Keane’s work followed the release of Tim Burton’s biopic Big Eyes (2014).
RIP Cynthia Plaster Caster (1947 – 2022)
Cynthia Plaster Caster was an American visual artist known for creating plaster casts of celebrities’ erect penises.
If you are looking for a recording in mainstream cinema of a penis being cast, check Nancy Godfrey‘s work in W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971).
RIP Dan Graham (1942 – 2022)
Dan Graham was an American visual artist known for such artworks as Belgian Fun (2004).
RIP John Wesley (1928 – 2022)
John Wesley was an American painter, known for his spareness of technique and flat-style of painting.
RIP Wayne Thiebaud (1920 – 2021)
Wayne Thiebaud was an American painter, one of the more interesting American painters of the 20th century.
I particularly like his Refrigerator Pies (1962) which I first came across in Art Now (1976) by Lucie-Smith.
Two good texts on the early period of his career are “The Slice-of-Cake School” (1962) and “An Interview with Wayne Thiebaud” (1966).
The first text has some intelligent remarks on lighting. The second has Thiebaud talking about the significance of pies in the American mind.
Because there is no good Youtube footage of Thiebaud and as an non-journalist I cannot reproduce content in copyright, I give you one of my favorite paintings, Mound of Butter.
RIP Lawrence Weiner (1942 – 2021)
Lawrence Weiner is an American artist who made visual poetry and who wrote the art manifesto “Declaration of Intent” (1968).
He designed the Quando Quango and Section 25 poster for Factory Records in 1985.
With Ned Sublette, he released the albums Ships At Sea, Sailors & Shoes (1993) and Monsters from the Deep (1997).
In Antwerp, his poem “Iron and gold in the air, dust and smoke on the ground” is on permanent display at the Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum.