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Sun 3 Aug, 2003 04:06 pm
Major international installations such as the Venice Biennale focus more and more on installation art. Many of the most reviewed gallery spaces in major cities seem to promote art that involves almost anything but paintings that are meant to hang on walls. Digital art is coming into its own..or is it? Is traditional painting - abstract or representational - dead as a doornail? Much of the "new" art has expanded the envelope of what is thought of as "visual art".
Do you think this apparent change in art interest is true? Are you stimulated by the changes and use new ideas in your own work? Are you displeased by the shift from traditional painting/sculpture, bemused by it, or delighted by it (if you think there has been a shift)?
Come join us on the A2K chat room at 8-10 p.m. New York time, every Sunday in August. People tend to pop in and out at different times, so wait a few minutes if no one is there when you check.
You find it on both the Home page and the Control Panel page of A2k...
I know, Vivien, we should change the time. That was set up early when the chat was first started. How about something like 7 pm London time, 2 pm NY, 11 am for Los Angeles? As it has been, Hebba in Denmark can't do it either...
Hi everyone I am missing you a lot.
Hi, Vivien, I just caught your answer (have been sort of out, this week), and hi, Joanne, we miss you.
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Yes, Joanne; we are looking forward to your return.
Just a quick FYI. The chat room will be removed shortly and I am not sure when it will return.
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Craven, I hate to be a kvetch but AARRGGGHHH!
p.s., I'm sure it's justified and necessary.
Thanks for the notice, Craven.
thats why I was the only one there last night. I hope it returns before we get back from our expedition
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I don't know how I missed you. I was in the chat room for about a half hour, with "Kud97" (?) and the infamous Letty. It was an enjoyable if brief chat.
Enjoy you expedition.
I was there right at the beginning, 5:03 my time (CA), but I didn't wait around this time like I usually do, staying around the computer area with the chat room onscreen. When Craven brings it back, if he does, maybe we can nail down a couple of likely times for chat so people from England and Denmark and California and Arizona can check in.
The chat has been supposed to be scheduled for two hours, as it was set up, and has often gone on that long, but it is hard to wait an hour if you are the first one there.
If this gets going again, we could pm people who we know are interested...
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Good points, Osso. Hope it doesn't turn out to be the eulogy for Chat (RIP).
And welcome back, jlnobody!
JL, do you do any on-site painting when you go to your desert place? Id love to have a week or so out in the desert to just sit and do landscapes and skies.
Were starting to get some spectacular sunsets here in MAine , and it will be so for the fall and into the winter . I have a spot picked out for a skyscape in September as a one last painting before we have to wrap up and head south.
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Farmer, I have plenty of opportunity to do on-site desert landscape painting. Unfortunately, I've have neither the preparation nor the inclination to take advantage of it (one of God's little ironies). My tree, snow and beach scenes are strictly from my imagination--and abstract take-offs from nature, or my conception of nature's beauty.
I'll do my best to put a chat up again. If nothing else I'll create a remotely hosted chat room for you all.
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