nobokov

You're assuming that in 70 years time Johhnys work wouldn't have evolved beyond this point... to call this "decor" is incredibly narrow minded, you may as well brand all artists working in the minimal sphere as "decor" artists! At least you've admitted to not being entirely enthused with minimalism which adds context to your views. Each to their own...

What are your views on Hirst?

Hopefully nobody here really thinks he can put Pollock, Kelly, Soto, Vasarely, Herrera, Invader, Miller and Johnny in the same pot.

Art history is something quite different from our personal taste.

Making a cut in a canvas today does not make you Fontana and making a cut in a canvas in the XVth century didn't make anybody Fontana.
Fontana, just as an example, was a breakpoint the art history because of his discussion about the medium, which came out as a critique to the existing tradition and the need to go over certain limits (in his case the ones posed by the medium "canvas" that many artits thought had been investigated in all possible ways); after Fontana, visual (?) art was no longer the same. The same, for different reasons, goes with Pollock.

Obviously it's not just a matter of newness, this "newness" must be relevant to the historic period in which it was conceived as it always comes as a consequence to the intellectual discussion being or as a reaction to some status quo or the exhaustion of some previous artistic form.

I think Invader is a good representative of an important artistic movement (maybe the only real artistic movement in the last 30 years) and with respect to other artists of the street art developed a personal style. Personally I don't find his work particularly appealing or interesting (and just for your information, unfortunately, I don't own any) and agree that is quite over hyped but he is relevant to the art world in this historic period.

Going back to our artist, making minimal art or color field painting or optical art in 2019 and making it in the '60s/'70s is quite different... just to say one could also paint great cubist paintings today from a purely aesthetic point of view, but that wouldn't make him a great painter (not even a great "cubist" painter actually), maybe it would make him a great craftman and the painting would be a "great painting in the cubist style", it wouldn't be a cubist painting because there cannot be cubist paintings in 2019.

Liking or not is just something else.


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How many were presold? Those flew. I thought they’d be up for a minute

I received mine last week and will hopefully get a good look at them at the framers next week. Post some pics of what you’re seeing..

Anyone have these framed yet ?

Many thanks to the member who helped me out with this - it’s already at the framers -