I visited Ed Haddaway’s sculptures yesterday in the enchanted woods surrounding Les Yeux du Monde Gallery in Charlottesville, VA. They have lived there for years greeting & delighting gallery as they approach. I have pictures but don’t see a way to share them here.
Maybe everything can be art. I don't know and it's tricky territory. If I understand this correctly I'll stay with Reinhardt's comment "art is art. everything else is everything else"
Art first and then whatever it is communicating next. I hope this makes sense. Humor goes back to the beginning. Cave art, petroglyphs , pictographs. Wonderfully "funny"
A nice piece about humor in art! Thank you! Generally speaking, I find humor mostly lies n comics strips rather than fine art, and my own fave is Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy (from the past, of course). It interests me that abstract art is mostly tragic, or at least "not funny"--certainly never LOL funny the way figurative art can be.
Only a few abstract artists stray over into the humorous. My aesthetic hero, Miró, is one who comes to mind immediately, and he's influenced me in my own art to push toward that which makes me and the (small) audience I have for it smile.
Right on, about Miro. I was thinking today about how many different ways there are of being funny, in art as in life. Nonetheless it's often hard to make distinctions among witty, whimsical, laugh-out-loud funny, wry, droll, etc. And one woman's joke may be another one's "Huh?"
But I do see the influence of the great Catalan on your work.
I'm also reminded of how bewildered de Kooning was by the storm of feminist rage over his "Women" series. He simply thought they were funny.
Thanks, Ann. They are all a breath of fresh air. I always enjoy seeing Ed Haddaway’s work on the beautiful wooded property of Les Yeux du Monde Gallery in Charlottesville.
I visited Ed Haddaway’s sculptures yesterday in the enchanted woods surrounding Les Yeux du Monde Gallery in Charlottesville, VA. They have lived there for years greeting & delighting gallery as they approach. I have pictures but don’t see a way to share them here.
Anyhow, I’m happy to read about him here. ❤️
Maybe everything can be art. I don't know and it's tricky territory. If I understand this correctly I'll stay with Reinhardt's comment "art is art. everything else is everything else"
Art first and then whatever it is communicating next. I hope this makes sense. Humor goes back to the beginning. Cave art, petroglyphs , pictographs. Wonderfully "funny"
Thank you!
A nice piece about humor in art! Thank you! Generally speaking, I find humor mostly lies n comics strips rather than fine art, and my own fave is Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy (from the past, of course). It interests me that abstract art is mostly tragic, or at least "not funny"--certainly never LOL funny the way figurative art can be.
Only a few abstract artists stray over into the humorous. My aesthetic hero, Miró, is one who comes to mind immediately, and he's influenced me in my own art to push toward that which makes me and the (small) audience I have for it smile.
Right on, about Miro. I was thinking today about how many different ways there are of being funny, in art as in life. Nonetheless it's often hard to make distinctions among witty, whimsical, laugh-out-loud funny, wry, droll, etc. And one woman's joke may be another one's "Huh?"
But I do see the influence of the great Catalan on your work.
I'm also reminded of how bewildered de Kooning was by the storm of feminist rage over his "Women" series. He simply thought they were funny.
Thanks, Ann. They are all a breath of fresh air. I always enjoy seeing Ed Haddaway’s work on the beautiful wooded property of Les Yeux du Monde Gallery in Charlottesville.
Ann, thank you so much for the shout-out! You have done so much for artists, the appreciation will live on . . .
A great selection. Thanks!
Hope Long Covid will be squashed.
Magda Salvesen
Still working on vanquishing Covid. Coming up on the two=year mark....it's been awful.
Can't wait, Ann! This entry is delightful, brought welcome laughs.
You are correct. I needed this. Great article. Thank you, Ann!
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