BRICE MARDEN on Cezanne

I never would have thought I would have a painting hanging in the same room as a Cézanne: Watch FLYPs short documentary on Brice Marden and his thoughts on Cezanne. See the full story on Brice Marden at www.flypmedia.c...

[@Michael62nyc]

thanks FLYP, another wonderful discussion- love it.

[@Whatever3114]

Abstract art is actually the most difficult form in that it is a question of your 'INTERNAL' Imagery and not the image in front of you. Abstract art works well when it is on a large scale (big paintings). It is almost always a beaten cause doing a 12" by 18" abstract and then hang it next to a Monet or a Van Gogh. No impact. The great Figurative artists did not just paint images they also 'captured' the SPIRIT. I respect both arts. I do both myself.

[@ippolytos1]

i think that it creates a sense of confinement. whenever say lines obey a type of geometry and they are limited by the usually recta-linear picture frame that creates a certain conflict, anyway. Imagine a picture with all curve sone side and all straightlines on another. There could be a lot of times where that would look like it didnt work together, i didnt go, or match. Theres an inherent conflict or tension. By the way, nice profile picture!

[@yohei72]

This and the other Marden videos on KZbin feel like clips from a Christopher Guest mockumentary, especially when they cut from his opaque, tortured ramblings to his "shrug, whatever" paintings.

[@ippolytos1]

Yes.

[@tommegalis]

so great...

[@dummy222]

@garethella welcome to modern art better yet the contemporary conceptual art era

[@ippolytos1]

yes.

[@yugenaware]

@HajiAkhbar Klee and Kandinsky where contemporaries, if anything Kandinsky was before there 13 years ages difference. Think before you comment.

[@ippolytos1]

he rambles on and on in that shifty-way like several teachers in the "humanities" ive had. art teachers--especially when he says the word "painting." it is like an idea for him, and a pure idea. why do i cry so much when i think i dont like the things i associate with him. i want to, i do do want to be swept away by the nostalgia of that era, the modernism.! ah art school, i miss the....yet i with great problems, "categorically withdrew!" from a modern art school. it may have been my greatest...

[@codylawrence100]

well, what about rothko, do you hate him?

[@KEPHALLE]

@garethella it doesn't mean you're right just because you think you are, even if under the phony call for "honesty". anything post kandinsky is inferior?? i mean, are you serious?? it's fine if you don't get this kind of art, dismiss it because your mind is lazy is not.

[@ippolytos1]

it may not be true i think because theres always sortof something to be worked out. an artist may say my art is done, for a variety of reasons. Art is very zen, you can either do it or not. but i usually think in a painter is theres something to be done, worked on.

[@dorfmanjones]

Why can't artists talk? Why this meaningless flailing away at some ill thought out claim? And curators: why put a Marden in the same room with several Cezannes? It's a visual non-sequitur.

[@red_headed_goddess]

someone once said that abstract art is political because it makes you think

[@ippolytos1]

um...get me away....im scared. well, any art- comments aside: (like dumb ones about the abstract art's nature, value) i feel like ive met brice mardens in my life, or people who resemble him very much. i for some reason picture, although its not upheld in this video, a room filled with 70sesqu neoprimitive ceramics and filled with paint brushes, and books on modern art, and yes, all that and i also for some reason recall many trips to modern art museums from the 90s.

[@zebredpooding]

the man cant stand still. im getting dizzy