What Are the Issues With the Painting Blessed Art Thou
Angelina Jolie: Purty as a Film
By Liz Kelly
"Blest Art Thou" by Kate Kretz. (Source: Kate's Studio)
When I saw this painting of Angelina Jolie by Northward Carolina artist Kate Kretz (on brandish starting tomorrow at Art Miami 2007), I immediately regretted my dejeuner of three-alarm Tofurkey chili. There ought to exist some kind of warning, you lot know, because a squeamish bland goop would've been a lot easier on my churning stomach.
Meet, I pride myself on being a highly artist who, if I then chose, would produce incredibly relevant, stunning art that would probably change the globe in some significant fashion. I, even so, am way also lazy to apply paint to sail, but feel my hidden talents qualify me to compare this painting unfavorably to a velvet Elvis.
To exist off-white, though, I sought the opinion of a existent critic, someone attuned to the peculiarities of the art globe, and someone who might translate an eccentricity as a bold stroke delivered from the castor of a skilled artisan. After all, one woman'southward abomination is another'southward treasure.
So I asked primary Mail art critic Blake Gopnik to take a look at Kretz's painting and share his professional stance:
"Kate Kretz's painting comes closer to mag illustration than to the subtle fine fine art you lot'd expect to run across in a major museum of contemporary art. It gets its letters across, alright. Information technology presents Angelina Jolie every bit our nation'southward Madonna of Consumption. In a glory of siliconed breasts, collagened lips and foreign-adopted cherubs, Angelina reigns over Wal-Mart'southward banality -- its all-American brands, its all-American flag, it'south all-American obesity. The trouble with the picture, art-wise, is that its messages are way Besides clear. It'south more like a puzzle-moving-picture show than a probing work of art: Once you've deciphered it, there's not much adventure of giving it a 2d look. Its van-art technique, especially, is and then generic that it hardly has a thing to say that hasn't been said a thousand times earlier -- often, much better. The crucial question, in our busy age: Why spend time with this work, when a 500-word Op Ed would do a better job expressing its opinions, and any number of Old Master paintings would mean more than to an art-loving eye."
Ummm, what he said.
P.Due south. I didn't make contact with Kretz for one unproblematic reason: She describes one of her preferred mediums as "pilus embroidery." I was scared.
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By Liz Kelly | January iv, 2007; 10:43 AM ET
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