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ART:
Jeffery Deitch talks:
Why art affects and engages us.
A six-minute interview, by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, with the former director of L.A.’s MoCA* museum, Jeffrey Deitch. Deitch shows himself to be a person who is uniquely passionate about art’s everlasting effects on society.
*The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Filmmaker Jesse Dylan is the son of singer, songwriter, and now painter Bob Dylan. (A link to the video is at the bottom of this story.)
There is an intense first 10 seconds when you behold a strong painting - when it all hits you instantly - when it's simply about visual power. It's primitive pattern recognition, a deep visual structure that connects with people instantly.
I was 12 years old and I remember being struck by a Fernand Léger lithograph, it just spoke to me. It had this visual impact. I connected with it. Perhaps the best way to learn a connoisseurship of works of art is by studying prints. Right before you, you can have works by Rembrandt, Dürer… These were works I could hold in my hand and study.
Artist continually reshape the history of art. What is truly significant in terms of the impact of an artist or artwork is how they affect the next generation of artists. If you learn about the context that artist was referring to - say if an artist is in a geometric tradition, you can go back to the beginning of abstraction and trace that history through artists like Mondrian, Brancusi or Kelly. The best art reinvents art for each generation! In addition, it references the long tradition of the art that goes before it.
I am always looking for art that engages life, that connects to people. Artists who first, redefine what an artist can be, a really great artist. Let's say Andy Warhol, who created a whole new definition of artist: an artist can be bigger; an artist can do journalism and it is still art; an artist can make films and it's still art. Where their art and their life are integrated! Where there is an entire vocabulary inside their art and they live it. As the audience we can participate in their ideas and we can enter their space. That wider concept of what an artist can be has been at the foundation of what I have worked with, for the past 40 years.
I saw Los Angeles as the city where things were opening up in art. Where this new convergence - this blurring of boundaries between the different media is occurring: art; design; film; performance, music; fashion; all shown in the same space! Art that isn't just something to look at, but is something to experience. Where the work becomes environmental, where there is a social aspect, where there is a sound aspect. I want to participate in setting the agenda of artist who are a part of this whole new mix, reinventing what art is and reinventing the art experience.
Do I understand the reason for the controversy?
I understand there are many people in the art community who see art moving very quickly. Who see this new audience, that doesn't differentiate too much between artists and styles. The traditional roll of the museums will not go away… they are the institutions that preserves our visual culture. But the imposing, inaccessible nature of the conventional museum, THAT is going to change, in response to this new audience.
One of the important things we did (at MOCA), was to work with some of the great geniuses of Los Angeles avant-garde culture. We have done wonderful, diverse and engaging exhibitions. No museum had done a rigorous show to try and identify the innovators of "Street Art". Eighty percent (80%) of the visitors to the show, participated. They would take pictures and then go home and curate and facebook or tweet their own version of the exhibition. This showed us there is so much more potential in visual art to reach people. People are hungry for artistic inspiration and stimulation.
- Art is part of our civilization, it goes back to the beginning.
- Art creates a community experience & a spiritual experience.
- The best art absolutely affects the way people see and understand the world.
- Art builds a sense of tolerance, openness and appreciation for different points of view.
- Art builds a sense of tolerance, openness and appreciation for different points of view.
NOTHING has the POWER that ART HAS!
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| Source: MOCAtv, a YouTube channel. |
FOOD
CEASAR SALAD
- Ingredients & directions
- use only the hearts of the romaine lettuce, with their light green color
- pull individual leaves off
- rinse and dry the leaves
- chop into 2" x 2" pieces
- toss with some olive oil, salt, & fresh-ground black pepper
- mix fresh squeezed lemon juice with a one minute egg, salt, pepper, freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- toss with lettuce
- prepared croutons
- put buttered and diced bread browned in the oven until well formed and dry
- put a clove of fresh crushed garlic with some extra virgin olive oil and sauté the croutons in the garlic and oil until brown & crisp
- top the salad with the fresh croutons
Variations
There are limitless other variations, some of the more common are:
- use other varieties of lettuce
- top with grilled poultry (usually chicken), other sliced meat or shellfish.
- add capers to the dressing
- Substitue Romano cheese for Parmesan in the dressing
Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all content. Concept, Original Art, Text & "Original & Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2013 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All photographs were taken and/or used with permission. Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
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