Painter Peter Cox















Virtual Worlds

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/arts/television/07games.html

More Matisse
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/arts/design/16matisse.html

High Tech Matisse
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/arts/design/11matisse.html

Playful Art

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/arts/design/22neuen.html?hp

Sitting With Marina Abramovic
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/sitting-with-marina/?hp

@ Bryant Park

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/arts/design/12gilmore.html

Influences/Alliances

Painting/Sculpture/Critic

Clement Greenberg

By Phyllis Herfield 1984

Abstract Expressionism: maintaining the "Aura" and doing individual, ritualistic, heroic (male) art that delved the subconscious and themes such as universal truths.

Sir Anthony Caro

Isaac Witkin

Kenneth Noland

Jules Olitski

Larry Poons

Philip Wofford

Stephen Mueller

Mueller and other painters talk about painting

big abstract: "Pastiche" from expressionist influence

Admiration for/ALLIANCES

Julie Mehretu

detail unfinished "Street"

Benjamin Edwards
Living in different dimensions and being in transit between them.

SECOND LIFE/Avatar

Cecily Brown

"I think art should be dangerous and uncomfortable and surprising and all those things motorcycle riding is." actor Jeremy Irons

Chiaroscuro/Doppelgangers: FILM NOIR
and Cinematic Storytelling

Alfred Hitchcock's : Stranger on a Train

Storyboard for shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"

Storyboard: Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Storyboard: The Birds

Polaroid Screen Grabs

Persistence of Vision
Detail: Pattern language/Game underpainting

Fargo Clip/ Coen Bros Neo-Noir:

Coen Brothers

Dancer Sylvie Guillem

Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHbU5zjUbYw

Wings

White Rabbits

Caravaggio obsession: teaching myself to paint

Takashi Murakami:

About surviving/being in the art world…First distinctively situate his/her position in art history. Second, articulate what the beauty of his/her art is. Next sexuality. Then death. Present what he/she finds in death. If an artist aptly rotates this cycle, he/she can survive. Damien Hirst has been repeating the cycle of birth, death, love,

sex and beauty…. think there should be a strong emotion within an artist to continuously create powerful works.

"...My generation, “The Baby Boomers,” turned out to be what the writer Kurt Andersen called “The Grasshopper Generation.” We’ve eaten through all that abundance like hungry locusts." Tom Friedman NYTimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/arts/design/10boltanski.html?hpw

Movement: Lyrical precariousness/Transitions

As an artist I am interested in questioning linear time and examining moments of lyrical movement as well as exploring energy and animation.

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Hopper in Rome

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/arts/design/02abroad.html?hp

Art & Quot. Object

1. "The distinction between art and mass production was once sacrosanct...Duchamp added flexibility." I think like the drifting/growing English language, the language of art had an enormous growth spurt when addressing this issue that continues to challenge conventional notions of art.

Marcel Duchamp

2.What was happening after WWI (the stimmung of defeat/Weiner Republic) and were the Dadaists French/German?

Andy Warhol

3. Appropriation

Strictly speaking, this strategy involves the direct duplication, copying or incorporation of an image (painting, photograph, etc.) from an identified source by an artist who represents it in a different context, thus completely altering its meaning and questioning notions of originality and authenticity. Later, appropriation came to include the reinterpretation of images from fine art or mass media sources, and often the combining of various images derived from various sources. The purpose of appropriation could be a political statement, an ironic gesture, a straight-up homage, or the desire to strengthen the power and impact of a particular image through reinterpretation of it.

4. This mix-up between the symbol and the thing becomes even more evident when looking at photography redoubling itself:

Sherrie Levine

Jeff Koons

5. What determines if something is art? What determines if it is good art?

Katharina Fritsch

Cornelia Parker

Liza Lou

Charles Ledray