Word: didacticism
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The American artists to whom he is closest are Edward Hopper and his fellow Californian, the late great Richard Diebenkorn; among Europeans, the names Giorgio Morandi, Chardin and Manet are among the first to pop up. But he is also one of those painters who, happily, feel entitled to pick...
The female form is omnipresent in Haney’s work, but also appears in an abstracted manner. The forms appear as line drawings or illustrations out of 1950s household magazines and do not depict current trends and fashions. Haney’s art seems to be making a statement...
Et voilá: merde - an outcome that co-opts even the bluntest judgment about contemporary art. "We spend all this love, all this money and manpower," says Delvoye with anarchic glee, "and we get something everybody flushed away this morning." He has had to turn down several requests from science...
Many of the dream motifs contained in "Mr. D" will seem familiar: being frozen, losing one's voice, being naked, drowning, falling and being chased. These are augmented with details that are relevant only to Mr. D's life but are still captivating in themselves: a mountaintop tiger who flies...
Unfortunately, the play fails to fully deliver on this intellectual undertone beneath its comedy. When it does try to do so, it can seem didactic, obvious, or self-referential; Split Confusion assumes its own conclusion-that television is the primary source of the woes and anxieties of our modern age...