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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Visual Art Currently Hanging

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:22 AM

Nathan DiPietro's terrible idylls, at PUNCH.

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Terrible? Wow that's the harshest I can recall you being to a Currently Hanging artist. Poor artist :-(

Posted by Massive Attack on September 9, 2009 at 11:36 AM

ugh, might as well get a Kincade painter of light (TM), or a stupid Babies dressed as flowers photo

Posted by vooodooo84 on September 9, 2009 at 11:38 AM

Your critique is more derivative than the art.

Posted by Ackham on September 9, 2009 at 12:15 PM

This should be obvious, but I postulate that perhaps Ms. Graves is using terrible in senses 1 or 2, not sense 3:

1 a: exciting extreme alarm or intense fear: terrifying b: formidable in nature: awesome (a terrible responsibility) c: difficult (in a terrible bind)
2 : extreme, great

Posted by leek on September 9, 2009 at 1:09 PM

Jen - could you be anymore vague? If you don't like the work then perhaps you should explain why. Maybe even going back to your copy of How the Critique Art for Fun and Profit, to see how to do it again.

Posted by You are losing me here on September 9, 2009 at 2:06 PM

Whoa. The IDYLLS are terrible, not the PAINTINGS. This is clear from the basic English I used.

Posted by Jen Graves on September 9, 2009 at 2:55 PM

Oh snippy critic, party of one! It's not clear. Plain and simple.

Posted by Massive Attack on September 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM

if the paintings themselves are considered idylls, then "paintings" and "idylls" are interchangeable terms in this context. this is why some confused "[the quality of] the paintings" with "[the scenes depicted in] the paintings." sometimes you need to use a little more than basic english to get your point across.

Posted by blip on September 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM

Is this painting a reference to another? I recognize it from my childhood but can't place it. Help.

Posted by St. Beretta on September 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM

Sorry I got snippy. Bad moment.

@9: It feels to me like Edward Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hick…) with sort of fraktur overtones (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…) -- but cold, like Alex Katz (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&cl…).

Posted by Jen Graves on September 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Actually I meant quite literally, somewhere I've seen that panda and that lion under a tree with a toucan on the lowest branch. But thanks for the references Jen.

Posted by St. Beretta on September 12, 2009 at 11:23 AM