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mordecai · Jan 18, 2011

the symphony, needs, a longo section.

artoftime · Jan 18, 2011

To me, Longo is redeemed for his past sins with his recent (few years) charcoal drawing work.
Many collectors agree - he sells the **** out of them.

mordecai · Jan 18, 2011

Originally Posted by artoftime

To me, Longo is redeemed for his past sins with his recent (few years) charcoal drawing work. Many collectors agree - he sells the **** out of them.
the titty drawings and the sharks? i'm not so into that stuff, but like peyton, longo has always sold well despite my bafflement. nice to have another member who is interested in contemporary art btw.

artoftime · Jan 18, 2011

Longo's huge charcoal drawing exhibitions at Metro Pictures are certainly a spectacle - not necessarily the waves, sharks, *******, etc and the stuff that are basically posters and prints.
Perhaps it's just a nod to artist that honed in on the one area of his oeuvre that is actually decent.
Maybe it's just a shrewd business move.
Agreed on Sherman.
They are two of the lucky ones - most artists that enjoyed incredible success in the 1980's, are now has-beens. (ahem...Rich has-beens)
Yes, this threak is about 5 members strong!

mordecai · Jan 18, 2011

lol, i said peyton but you can throw cindy in there too. we have her to thank for an entire sub genre of ****** college girl photography. i always thought of longo as more of a graphic artist, which is maybe why his newer stuff makes me

men in the city is the only thing i've ever felt was worth looking at by him. the sharks and cowboy hat are OK. btw, since you mentioned Metro Pictures, i

Olaf Breuning. they have a pretty good roster although it isn't totally clear to me, living in LA, who they represent and who they simply have works available by.

aphextwin07 · Jan 18, 2011

I prefer my art in the form of music and film, personally.

mordecai · Jan 18, 2011

Originally Posted by aphextwin07

I prefer my art in the form of music and film, personally.

then might i direct you to the entertainment subforum, where you can post about them in one of the many threads there dedicated to each medium.

milosz · Jan 19, 2011

lol, i said peyton but you can throw cindy in there too. we have her to thank for an entire sub genre of ****** college girl photography.

This used to make me so angry. I had professors criticizing my work for being not conceptual enough while jacking off all over middle-class girls doing self-portraits ripping off Sherman (and Nan Goldin to a lesser extent, none of them were willing to **** with heroin). I'm a straight, white male, how am I supposed to do that kind of low hanging fruit identity bullshit?

I was 19 or 20 at the time and wasn't yet capable of arguing the concept behind my work - isolation, class issues, etc., and was being influenced by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Uta Barth, Bernd and Hilla Becher rather than Sherman and hacks like JP Witkin.

milosz · Jan 19, 2011

Got my revenge by doing some absurdly bad series on suicide and depression - double exposures with me holding a gun to my head and **** wrists (using syrup for blood - what up Alfred Hitchcock) and such. My professor in that class went apeshit for it.

Found the negatives recently, burned them.

mordecai · Jan 19, 2011

lol. good work. i'm sure he also would have accepted sympathetic photos of homeless men. nice references too, some of my favorite photographers in there.

StephenHero · Jan 19, 2011

artoftime · Jan 19, 2011

Originally Posted by milosz

This used to make me so angry. I had professors criticizing my work for being not conceptual enough while jacking off all over middle-class girls doing self-portraits ripping off Sherman (and Nan Goldin to a lesser extent, none of them were willing to **** with heroin). I'm a straight, white male, how am I supposed to do that kind of low hanging fruit identity bullshit?
Succinct. The art world is a wicked and incredibly political place...much like other entertainment related industries.

I was 19 or 20 at the time and wasn't yet capable of arguing the concept behind my work - isolation, class issues, etc., and was being influenced by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Uta Barth, Bernd and Hilla Becher rather than Sherman and hacks like JP Witkin.

Sugimoto, Barth, the Bechers are all steeped in a classical elegance that is borne out of a bygone era.
Art professors are obsessed with their own egos and making their own art/careers - students are all dreaming of landing the cover of Artforvm while still in College - and being picked up by an A-list NYC gallery while still undergrads.
It's insidious, I'm afraid.

Annadale · Jan 23, 2011

My ex works at our local college, and every year at the degree show exhibition there is always some poor girl that thinks that making ******-like gourds out of 'found objects' is the height of post modern feminist art.

jpeirpont · Jan 23, 2011

I'm rather ignorant to art so I like the things just about everyone knows about or things that speak to me culturally. Of this nature....

Pezzaturra · Jan 23, 2011

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