Spencer Finch’s show “Painting Air,’’ which opened this week at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, reveals a deep debt to the Claude Monet, the Impressionist beloved by the hoards, yawned at by the eye-rolling in-crowd. Finch made a copy of Monet’s “The Basin at Argenteuil’’ when he was a student at RISD in 1988 (it’s on show here a few feet from the real thing), and he has been thinking about Monet ever since.
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I must call into question the merits of a person claiming to be an artist when there belief is, "That impossibility,'' he continues "is interesting to me - the impossibility of representation, the impossibility of communication, the impossibility of making art to a certain degree.'' as stated in the article. The point of view stated next outlines how the conceptions of art, are not the same as art. "making them "absurd". Most of the works in Finch's show - photographs, collages, installations, paintings and drawings - riff on this impossibility, and especially on the perceived absurdity of making art." What? The immediate nature of our cultures needs, does not fit the needs of creating art. Like rocket science the answers come from effort, practice, knowledge, luck and purpose.
"Like Mitt Romney." Ouch! An excellent review, thank you.