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laodan discovered 3 months ago- THE GRAYING OF MODERNISM in Artnet by DONALD KUSPIT about "Jasper Johns: Gray," NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art professor of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and A.D. White professor at large at Cornell University.
From Impressionism onward modernism has moved steadily away from reality testing into the deceptive wonderland of hallucination.(3) It has moved away from the real thing and towards the perverse reality of the hallucinated thing -- into the bizarrely timeless and spaceless limbo of "vision" where things are real and unreal simultaneously. What began as an epistemophilic adventure ends in epistemophobic stalemate, which is what I think we have in Johnsu2019 engulfing grayness. ... Suspending the reality principle, it becomes a realm of dubious pleasure -- pseudo-esthetic pleasure. It also loses moral value, however indirectly; if white and black have moral significance, as Kandinsky and innumerable others have noted, then mixing them together to form neutral gray renders art morally indifferent. ... Modernism was re-playing itself like a broken record, squeezing every last bit of enigma and insinuation out of the medium. ... I thought I was looking at the suicide of art in process. THE GRAYING OF MODERNISM Jasper Johns. Map. 1962. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Jasper Johns. 0-9. 1959-62. collection of Martin Z. Margulies The search for a reality that the eye can't see was at the heart of the artistic adventure of the artists-thinkers of high modernity (1910-1930). They were unfortunately followed by artists who never understood the artistic quest of high modernity and who then all naturally concluded the experience of modernity in the one way street of "whatever is art" which unmistakably is a total failure or the "Death of art" as Kuspit posits in other works of his.
- THE GRAYING OF MODERNISM in Artnet by DONALD KUSPIT about "Jasper Johns: Gray," NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art professor of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and A.D. White professor at large at Cornell University.
