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    Nepotism & Scatological Postmodernisms

    ByMark Vallen August 16, 2005October 13, 2022

    Trouble is brewing in the realm of the postmodern art world, one of its stars could take a big fall, and with any luck his plummet may indicate the entire postmodernist school could soon topple. Chris Ofili, the artist famous for incorporating elephant dung into his portrait of the Virgin Mary, is at the center of the controversy, which an…

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  • Postmodernism-Remodernism

    A Minor Footnote In History

    ByMark Vallen August 12, 2005March 27, 2023

    Thanks to the prevailing postmodern idiocy that rules the world of art, I sometimes hesitate to tell people that I’m an artist. What might they think? That I create paintings like “performance artist,” Keith Boadwee, who squats over his canvases and “paints” by emptying his bowels of egg tempura enemas? In 1995, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions of Los Angeles presented a…

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  • Artists and the Iraq war

    Art: Another Casualty In Iraq

    ByMark Vallen August 11, 2005October 21, 2022

    Two years after the US “liberated” Iraq, artists in that beleaguered nation are barely hanging on. Having survived the long night of Saddam and the “shock and awe” blitzkrieg of the Americans, Iraqi artists today are fighting a losing battle against occupation, terrorism, and the rising threat of Islamic fundamentalism. Back in July of 2004, the artists of Iraq were…

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  • German Expressionism

    George Grosz: Behold the Man

    ByMark Vallen August 10, 2005October 21, 2022

    When I was a teenager in the late 1960’s, I found an art book in my local library titled, Ecco Homo (Behold the Man). As my first real introduction to German Expressionist art, it was an encounter that profoundly altered my life as an artist. Ecco Homo was a portfolio of prints created by artist, George Grosz, in 1923. That…

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  • Art of War | General

    Nagasaki Nightmare

    ByMark Vallen August 6, 2005October 21, 2022

    August 6th, 2005, marks the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. August 9th, marks the bombing of Nagasaki. Those who survived the blasts became known as hibakusha (Atom Bomb Survivors), and in 1974 the hibakusha began contributing artworks to an unusual project that would preserve for the world their memories of atomic fire. The Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK…

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  • Art of War

    The Hiroshima Panels

    ByMark Vallen August 6, 2005October 7, 2022

    Virtually unknown in the west, the Hiroshima Panels are as profound an antiwar work as Pablo Picasso’s famous mural, Guernica. The creation of Japanese artists, Iri and Toshi Maruki (both now deceased), the panels depict the atomic holocaust wrought upon Japan when the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The monumental panels, which are actually…

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  • Surrealism

    The New René Magritte Museum

    ByMark Vallen July 27, 2005October 7, 2022

    Though it may not show in my work, I’ve always been interested in the points of view and politics of the Surrealist movement. So naturally I took great delight in learning that a new museum dedicated to one of my favorite surrealist painters, René Magritte, will open in Brussels sometime in early 2007. The collection will include around 150 works…

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  • Postmodernism-Remodernism

    Art: Obey Your Thirst

    ByMark Vallen July 27, 2005October 7, 2022

    American conceptual artist, Wayne Hill, had his artwork stolen and drunk. His art – a clear plastic bottle filled with water and situated on a pedestal, was priced at $69,700 (£40,000). Shown at an arts festival in Devon, England, the work was apparently misidentified by some thirsty person as being… a clear plastic bottle filled with water situated on pedestal….

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