January 1, 2012
I woke up one morning this week, walked into my studio while still half asleep, looked around and thought, my work is just not enough. This may not seem like a good start to a New Year of positive thinking, but I immediately understood that this thought, surging from the liminal space between sleep and [...]
Posted in art, painting, sculpture | Tagged African art, Andrea Mantegna, Michael Baxandall, painting, portraiture, Renaissance art, Sandro Botticelli
July 10, 2011
Reading The New York Times Book Review section today, I was struck by the ironic twist implicit in one sentence of Jed’s Perl’s review, “Freedom of Expression,” of Gail Levin’s Lee Krasner: A Biography and Patricia Albers’ Joan Mitchell-Lady Painter: A Life. Perl writes of Krasner, “by the time Krasner met Pollock she was already [...]
Posted in art | Tagged Charlotte Salomon, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, painting, Piet Mondrian, women artists
October 3, 2010
The necessity of being perceived as having a brand at first glance seems to be specific to our time: in politics you’ll hear that President Obama can’t do such and such because it would go against “The Brand.” Brand Obama or Brand Brad Pitt can’t be altered without entering into a Bermuda triangle of non-recognition [...]
Posted in art, painting, sculpture | Tagged Abstract Expressionism, Ad Reinhardt, Arshile Gorki, Barnett Newman, Clement Greenberg, David Smith, Jack Tworkov, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, MoMA, Norman Kleeblatt, painting, Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning
June 28, 2010
First, some quick comparisons among two current exhibitions in New York City and an exhibitionistic pop culture event, Otto Dix at the Neue Galerie, Greater New York 2010 at MoMA P.S.1, and Work of Art: The Next Great Artist on Bravo Network. You can have some fun imagining the portraits Otto Dix might have made [...]
Posted in art | Tagged drawing, Greater New York, MoMA P.S.1, Otto Dix, painting
June 18, 2010
My father Ilya Schor was an artist. He is best known for his work in Judaica including Torah Crowns, Candelabras, and Mezuzahs, for his jewelry, and for his illustrations of treasured texts of Jewish religious philosophy and folk literature by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Sholem Aleichem. In relation to the history of modernism, my [...]
Posted in art | Tagged Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ilya Schor, Judaica, painting, Sholem Aleichem
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