September 23, 2006
some peculiar happenings....
The other day one of my friends (an art history major) looked at a reproduction of one of your paintings in my room and mistook it for Gorky. She swore it was a Gorky, until I told her it was, in fact a Pepi. I dont know how you will interpret that, being that, despite your admiration for Gorky, you have always crafted a unique style that perhaps a more educated eye can discern. either way it should serve to confirm, in a present day context, what you already knew about your work in relation to your peers.
503, 1950,Oil Painting
20 x 14 x 1 inches
I am not to judge whether your reatcion about this confusion with Gorky,
that is your place as the artist to decide I suppose. I thought it was a worthy discussion point. Also this tells us more about the art audience and "art world" than it does about the craft. I tell you all this not to pass judgment on the events or to try to get any certain reaction from you other than I felt as if , this instance was a clever incident in gaging a new generation's view of art and their nterpretations. Even through your own style, the inventiveness of which this painting communicates, the tendecies and norms upon which the eye of the new generation operates emerge. Exercises like this are often overlooked in the progression of viewing and interpreting art. What directs the eye in viewing art through the change of generations or shifts in cultural consciousness? Instead of confronting these questions head on, we comfortably rest on the laurels and theories (sometimes incorrect) of the progression of art. We are pre-instructed what to look for in art before we even get to the parking lot.
just some things that sprouted out from that event. Thought you would like
to hear them.
-Mike Pepi
The other day one of my friends (an art history major) looked at a reproduction of one of your paintings in my room and mistook it for Gorky. She swore it was a Gorky, until I told her it was, in fact a Pepi. I dont know how you will interpret that, being that, despite your admiration for Gorky, you have always crafted a unique style that perhaps a more educated eye can discern. either way it should serve to confirm, in a present day context, what you already knew about your work in relation to your peers.
503, 1950,Oil Painting
20 x 14 x 1 inches
I am not to judge whether your reatcion about this confusion with Gorky,
that is your place as the artist to decide I suppose. I thought it was a worthy discussion point. Also this tells us more about the art audience and "art world" than it does about the craft. I tell you all this not to pass judgment on the events or to try to get any certain reaction from you other than I felt as if , this instance was a clever incident in gaging a new generation's view of art and their nterpretations. Even through your own style, the inventiveness of which this painting communicates, the tendecies and norms upon which the eye of the new generation operates emerge. Exercises like this are often overlooked in the progression of viewing and interpreting art. What directs the eye in viewing art through the change of generations or shifts in cultural consciousness? Instead of confronting these questions head on, we comfortably rest on the laurels and theories (sometimes incorrect) of the progression of art. We are pre-instructed what to look for in art before we even get to the parking lot.
just some things that sprouted out from that event. Thought you would like
to hear them.
-Mike Pepi
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