Clyfford Still Fused Form, Color and Texture for a Radical New Language of Abstraction

[@ingridllinas5612]

Thank you for such beautiful description. Abstract art is not so easy to understand. I appreciate your analysis.

[@tadeojayden8095]

i realize Im kinda off topic but do anybody know a good place to stream newly released tv shows online?

[@mrfudd13]

I grew up in Rochester, NY and one of my best memories was trips to the Albright-Knox.

[@egrace6834]

Thank You. Love this. I'm glued to the set watching you! After inheritance, I'll show my presence in your auction! Inheritance is a morbid process!

[@berealrelentless6237]

Agreed!

[@JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2025]

I like this one & really Always Liked red in Works

[@gregdahlen4375]

it looks rather strong. it got me thinking about which country has the oddest shape I wonder how they get the border line of the yellow to exactly match the border line of the orange even with the various twists, i don't think they painted the orange over the yellow or vice versa but not sure

[@JayBenedictBrown]

I like this piece better than any piece I’ve seen in the Still Museum.

[@mrepix8287]

If you need to explain art for people to appreciate it then it has failed as art. Painting a visual medium, it’s beauty should shine through without words

[@timothyhoft]

People don't talk about art in order to appreciate it. They talk about art because they already appreciate it.

[@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl]

Very impressive work

[@NancyJarman]

Most of the comments on Still's magnificent paintings are commemts made by fools. He was a genius from start to finish.

[@wet-read]

He was great, and my favorite abstract expressionist artist. I also recently discovered the surrealist artist Yves Tanguy via one of his works being featured on the cover of a philosophy book. I love his stuff.

[@mytobytobster]

I love Buffalo and the museum is a mini heart of Buffalo

[@alishaygan9844]

@Chris Dick No one has said it as clearly and nor as directly as you just did. thank you

[@정길주-w9p]

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[@charlestaylor6279]

She says "He wasn't interested in colour, or edge, or form" OK ................. Now look at his bloody painting. It's got all of that !!! This is an obvious contradiction wouldn't you say ? Now as an artist myself that paints every day and sells his work all the time and has done for years I can tell you that I could knock that out in a morning. No trouble at all. BUT, I also know that if you want your yellow to really stand out, you put it next to a duller or toned down blue. NOT royal blue. No, you get the blue, any old blue, let's say cobalt blue and add a bit of orange to the blue and that tones the blue down. But of course when you look at the whole painting he's only got a tiny area of royal blue, that you could fit in your eye. So god alone knows what these guys were thinking about years ago. It seems to go like this. "I can call myself an artist, even though I can not draw a figure or even a landscape, I don't care about colour, edges, or form, but I can hold a brush and dip into paint, or actually throw the paint at the canvas. Therefore I'm an artist, cos I say I'm an artist" No doubt that would seem logical to a nut case, or somebody on drugs or alcohol or both. Then of course you have the "peer group" They all confirm the crazy "logic" And now we come to the video. Well made with a lady who's swallowed a dictionary. She knows she needs to convince a certain type of client. Those educated, well educated, ........ well beyond their own level of intelligence. Yes, she's done a first class sales pitch. Bravo ! Well you might say the "The moon is made out of cheese" But, surprise surprise ....................... Just saying it, does NOT make it so" The we come to today's video from the auctioneer. They'll sell it for a huge sum of money and charge a commission to both the buyer and the seller. The bloke who actually made the painting will get nowt. Nothing ! .............. Zero !! No doubt he's dead already, but his remaining relatives, his children should get something. Just like when a NFT is sold a record is kept and the artist receives a percentage each time the work is sold. That seem much fairer to me. So if you really like this sort of painting, I'm your man. [e-mail]

[@alishaygan9844]

I thought the same thing-that she lists what he wasn’t interested in and yet that’s all that he appears to be interested as evidenced in his art works. I half expected her to break out of character into riotous laughter and laugh in between saying- No, i’m just bullshiting you. His work does not even begin to approach radical today nor when it was created in the heyday of abstract expressionism. He didn’t want to live in New York. So where did he live and why? She glaringly omitted one major issue and controversy about him & his work. Clifford Styll was an undisputed anti-Semite. After he died and per the terms of his will, all his personal collection of his own art and his paintings that had yet to be sold were to be kept together. An obvious tourist attraction, various cities competed to be selected for a trade of accepting all the works at no charge - in return, it was stipulated that the owner of the museum could not be Jewish and something else which i can’t recall. Andrew Wyeth, Mr American Photorealism, stipulated in his will that none of his estate be allowed to be purchased and collected by Jewish persons. The uncomfortable truth about Clifford Styll’s anti-semitism made sense the instant that i say the video was produced by and for an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s. Between the near monopoly held by Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the latter has found itself caught illegally smuggling Medieval art out of Italy, caught selling looted antiquities, routinely selling the paintings looted by the Nazi’s and shady business practices. I recall taking two items to Sotheby’s for them to sell in Toronto and they refused to accept them. i asked why and they said in a round about manner that they were not Sotheby’s worthy. lol. I told the lady it was a surprise to me bcz my father had bought them at Sotheby’s decades prior and I had the original auction catalog with me to prove it. She said that they might have been accepted among a larger group of items for auction by one seller. So what they are saying is, you can’t assume that when you buy a work from them, that at least you can resell through them and that they make no attempt whatsoever to stand behind their identification of items at all.

[@Ashabarala]

Exactly, this isn't art and the lady is but giving a marketing speech, to sell crap.

[@JOSEPHCHARLESCOLIN2025]

I agree in a way

[@michaelsheehan7491]

😊💚👍👍☘

[@ai-man212]

Basquiat took all of those and went over them with paint sticks to comment on society. :-) The true genius and innovator.

[@josettaschembri2010]

Mind reading

[@notnek202]

It’s something but one thing it is not is ART. Not saying it’s good or bad just not art. Need to come up with a new word.

[@alishaygan9844]

you are about 80 years too late with your “thought”. that statement is an uninformed viewpoint that has been debated and refuted with every new school or movement in art. pick up any book about modern, post-modern and contemporary art and put it back on the shelf. i shouldn’t have wasted my time on your comment.

[@Ashabarala]

It's not art. Maybe hart or hampart... Or let's just call it crap.

[@stevenikitas8170]

Ochre is a somewhat bland and passive color. I think Still used it as a challenge to himself.

[@balthasarklossowskiderola6103]

My kid could do that

[@ron4501]

No he can't

[@balthasarklossowskiderola6103]

@@ron4501 yes he can

[@volotat]

The art is not in the image itself. But in the ability of people to sell paintings like this for a good price. This is the actual art that happening here.

[@arthurb8436]

but he didn't, and isn't. and that's whats significant.

[@Ashabarala]

@@volotat all of my yes! The only art here is the art to sale!

[@user-jv9qz2bu1r]

CRAP!