-This shows a small village up in the mountains surrounded by farmland. Luciani is doing something unique in this piece, the midground feels like its unfolding between the back and foregrounds. It has to do with the range of details he is painting subtly or vividly.
http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/6433/1/village-of-stowe-vermont
Giovanni Battista Crema (1883-1964) "triptych: Prisoners of the mountains mist"
-The two end pieces of the triptych were placed lower than the center piece, showing the mountains edge, while the center showed a man and women laying completely at peace on the cliff of these mountains.
http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/1405/1/triptych-prisoners-of-the-mountain-mist
These paintings raise questions of live and death. Luciani showing the live captured in a mountain village and Crema showing death also as a beautiful thing. Its almost suggested that life and death become the same movement between these pieces. I think about the afterlife and then realize how pointless continued existence would be, if we didn't know how to live. We see between these two works the capture of life and not so much death, because we see here that death is more than just a part of life.
George Morrison (1919-2000) "Collage IX: Landscape" (1974)
-I remember going to see a George Morrison show at the gallery near the Science museum. This guy cuts driftwood and makes it into beautiful landscapes. Its abstract, and though it wasn't in the modern section at MIA, I think it definitely had a hand in postmodernism movement. For those of you who don't know George Morrison, he lived in the Great Lakes area, namely MN.
So Jason, what would you like the viewer to understand from your juxtaposition of the Morrison landscape with the Luciani and Crema works?
ReplyDeleteAlthough Morrison was a Native American artist with a great connection to the natural world in his choice of subject matter and media, I'm not sure I would categorize his work as Postmodern...