http://www.ulgensemerci.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:08:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "I wish there would be a nonconservative turn away from the habits of looking and making that new popular conceptual art has introduced. I think there should be a turn to visual art. The move has got nothing to do with current fake polarities in art world posturing. For example, ... http://www.ulgensemerci.com/?p=129 www.amongotherthings.org http://www.ulgensemerci.com/?p=113 "One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left ... http://www.ulgensemerci.com/?p=88 "Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. We are well aware that making sense and picturing are artificial, but we can never give them up. For belief (thinking out ... http://www.ulgensemerci.com/?p=85 Question: Why did the Conceptual artist start painting? Answer: Because he heard it was a good idea. "One of us made that up 30 years ago. It was really funny then." David Salle I read this on the subway the other day and could not stop giggling... Linda Yablonsky, "Photo Play: The Story of the ... http://www.ulgensemerci.com/?p=62