http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life That's what Ad Reinhardt, painter of deep black canvases, wrote was "the one thing to say about art and life." Seattle's best advocate of art for art's sake is Jeffrey Simmons, a painter whose watercolors slay me. They just seem physically impossible. I don't know how he does this with watercolor. The control is superhuman; they're as precise as if they were made in wet concrete. (It scares me a little.) At the same time, they're vulnerable, unlike Simmons's abstractions in acrylic or coated in resin. The fact that all this fine-toned achievement will fade, however subtly, is unthinkable. Yet... Copyright 2008 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:30:57 -0800 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:27:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss damn that's beautiful.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894489 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894489 Visual Art Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:47:31 -0800 Thanks for posting something other than half-baked (or fully baked, in one sense) political analysis. Looks like a good show!

]]> amocat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894507 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894507 Visual Art Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:57:51 -0800 i've walked by that show a dozen times and those watercolors have made me stop, or at least caused a lingering glance from me each time. like a rothko, the way the color vibrates in your eye is best experienced in person.

]]> boxofbirds http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894511 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894511 Visual Art Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:01:22 -0800 Wow.
I'm pretty damn sure that I have been cutting that guy's hair, for a while now. Genius at my fingertips?

]]> violet black http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894513 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894513 Visual Art Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:02:53 -0800 before the advent of design-by-computering, students learned to mix watercolor and paint like this. Most of us received passing grades. It took time, practice, and patience...where did those three things go?

]]> color theory 101 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894521 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894521 Visual Art Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:08:21 -0800 boxofbirds, did you see the John James Audabon exhibit at MOHAI? Amazing stuff, very in tune with comment 5.

]]> GrMkLSk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894532 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894532 Visual Art Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:14:28 -0800 These are indeed arresting -- I can't reconcile how I feel about the fingerprints, though. Are they a window into the humanity of the art(ist), or laziness?

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c894559 Visual Art Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:31:31 -0800 7:
Laziness? Go see it in person, stare half in awe, half in stupified and stumped calculation of just how long this painting probably took to make and then re-evaluate you comment. In all non-snarky seriousness, it and some of his others should really be seen in the flesh.

]]> jamey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c895413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/art_is_art_and_life_is_life#c895413 Visual Art Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:27:30 -0800