{"id":6331,"date":"2014-05-12T10:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T08:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2015-01-09T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:04:13","slug":"graham-green-to-prove-that-art-is-not-a-progression-but-an-addition-creating-a-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/05\/12\/graham-green-to-prove-that-art-is-not-a-progression-but-an-addition-creating-a-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Green to prove that art is not a progression, but an addition creating a culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 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of assorted beer cans, gold paint poured from the top outwards, tea light candles.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/05\/12\/graham-green-to-prove-that-art-is-not-a-progression-but-an-addition-creating-a-culture\/kwgaillard\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/KWgaillard.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Cyprien Gaillard, The Recovery of Discovery (The Beer Pyramid), 2011, 72.000 bottles of Efes beer).\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6333\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6333'>\n\t\t\t\tCyprien Gaillard, The Recovery of Discovery (The Beer Pyramid), 2011, 72.000 bottles of Efes beer).\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/05\/12\/graham-green-to-prove-that-art-is-not-a-progression-but-an-addition-creating-a-culture\/pyramid\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pyramid.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Jeffu Warmouth, JEFFUMarket Pyramid, 2001, aluminum cans with custom labels.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6334\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6334'>\n\t\t\t\tJeffu Warmouth, JEFFUMarket Pyramid, 2001, aluminum cans with custom labels.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n5djsmmigB1qi5i8so1_1280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Peter Sutherland, 2014. Courtesy of The Still House Group.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6336\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6336'>\n\t\t\t\tPeter Sutherland, 2014. Courtesy of The Still House Group.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Mr.\u00a0Simchowitz has noticed,\u00a0the pyramid recently presented by Peter Sutherland in occasion of his solo show at The Still House is similar to a piece by Rob Pruitt dated 1990. Is this similarity\u00a0diminishing Sutherland&#8217;s idea? We don&#8217;t thinks so, and this passage from \u201cTravels with my aunt\u201d by Graham Green explains\u00a0you why:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Tooley sat with me and drank one of her cokes. I asked her what her boyfriend\u2019s project was.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201cHe wants to do a series of enormous pictures of Heinz soups in fabulous colours, so a rich man could have a different soup in each room in his apartment \u2013 say fish soup in the bedroom, potato soup in the dining-room, leek soup in the drawing-room, like they used to have family portraits. There would be these fabulous colours, all fauve. And the cans would give a sort of unity \u2013 do you see what I mean? It would be kind of intimate \u2013 you wouldn\u2019t break the mood every time you changed rooms. Like you do now if you have de Stael in one room and a Rouault in another.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The memory of something I had seen in a Sunday supplement came back to me. I said, \u201cSurely somebody once did paint a Heinz soup tin?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201cNot Heinz, Campbell\u2019s,\u201d Tooley said. \u201cThat was Andy Warhol. I said the same thing to Julian when he first told me of the project. \u2018Of course,\u201d I said, \u201cHeinz and Campbell are not a bit the same shape. Heinz is sort of squat and Campbell\u2019s are long like English pillar-boxes.\u2019 I love your pillar-boxes. They are fabulous. But Julian said that wasn\u2019t the point. He said that there are certain subjects which belong to a certain period and culture. Like the Annunciation did. Botticelli wasn\u2019t put off because Piero della Francesca had done the same thing. He wasn\u2019t an imitator. And think of all the Nativities. Well, Julian says, we sort of belong to the soup age \u2013 only he didn\u2019t call it that. He said it was the Art of Techno-Structure. In a way, you see, the more people who paint soups the better. It creates a culture. One Nativity wouldn\u2019t have been any use at all. It wouldn\u2019t have been noticed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Graham Green, \u201cTravels with my aunt\u201d, 1969 (chapter XIV).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As Mr.\u00a0Simchowitz has noticed,\u00a0the pyramid recently presented by Peter Sutherland in occasion of his solo show at The Still House is similar to a piece by Rob Pruitt dated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[1641,1711,1713,1712,1638,1296],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-brad-troemel","tag-cyprien-gaillard","tag-graham-green","tag-jeffu-warmouth","tag-peter-sutherland","tag-rob-pruitt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}