Artists

Artists I’ve discussed in some detail are listed alphabetically. When there are multiple articles for a single artist, the most pertinent or recent ones are nearer the top.

Abramović, Marina

• Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (A section is devoted to her “The Artist is Present” performance.)
• The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art

Andre, Aelita

• Is this child art prodigy the real deal, and is she really a threat to the canon of Abstract Expressionist painters?

Andre, Carl

• Carl & Ana: Art, Suicide, Murder, Belief
• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative

Auerbach. Frank

• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists
• Sophie Derrick: Exhilarating Expressionist Impasto Paintings (section in him as an influence)
• In Defense of Artist, Glenn Brown (Brown made interpretive copies of Auerbach’s paintings)

Bacon, Francis

• In Defense of Artist, Francis Bacon (Very comprehensive article with tons of pics)
• Another Critic Hates Francis Bacon, and is Clueless
• Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Francis Bacon, in HD
• Evolutionary Vs. Revolutionary and Traditional Art (Bacon is an example of “Evolutionary Art)
• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists
• Why the Still Image is Still Vital
• Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt (included as a significant influence)

Banksy

• Stenciling Over Banksy, article about me
  

Barry, Robert

• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative

Basquiat, Jean-Michel

• Schnabel’s Basquiat a Basket Case (film review)
• Basquiat’s Lost Portrait of Warhol Poised to Fetch $150,000,000.
  

Bechtle, Robert

• Bechtle’s Realist Paintings of Cars Hit Home

Beckmann, Max

• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Beksiński, Zdzisław

• The Cruciforms of Zdzisław Beksiński
• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Bjork

• The painfully obvious thing nobody is saying about the Bjork Exhibit at MOMA

Blac, Suzzan

• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Black, Joe

• The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art

Bradford, Mark

• Mark Bradford: Political Action Painter?

Broadwee, Keith

• How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters.

Brown, Glenn

• In Defense of Artist, Glenn Brown
• The trial of Glenn Brown as a plagiarist/copyist continues.

Brown, Millie

• How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters.

Burden, Chris

• Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (Burden is discussed here as a conceptual/performance artist I admire.)
• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
• The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art

Bush, George W.

• Bush Self-Portrait Paintings Revised (real story, plus parody)

Cassatt, Mary

• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative

Chapman Brothers

• Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art

Coleman, Joe

• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Close, Chuck

• Chucking out Chuck Close for Allegedly Being Naughty
• Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt (included as a significant influence)
• Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations) (included here as an important influence)

Cyrus, Miley

• Miley Cyrus: Conceptual Artist

de Kooning, Willem

• What is Real in Art?

Derrick, Sophie

• Sophie Derrick: Exhilarating Expressionist Impasto Paintings

Desiderio, Vincent

• Kanye West’s Sculpture Killed Conceptual Art (Contains art West appropriated from Desiderio as well as a selection of Desiderio paintings.)

Doig, Peter

• The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art

Duchamp, Marcel

• The Big Bang of Conceptual Art [Why People Hate Conceptual Art: Part 4] (This is a feature on Duchamp.)
• F_ck The Fountain!
• Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art
• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
• What is Real in Art?
• Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington on Art: Enlightening Bollocks (Duchamp is discussed here)
• Duchamp killed Picasso, but only if you’re blind
• Duchamp Versus Picasso
• Art versus Anti-Art (Duchamp represents anti-art here).
• Why only anti-art survived, and anti-music, anti-literature and the other anti movements died.
• It’s time to finally retire “radical”
• Artist exhibits Duchamp’s “Fountain” in restroom to take the museum out of art.
  
• Upturned chamber pot recognized as fine art over 250 years before Duchamp
  

Durant, Sam

• Censoring and Burning Art in the Name of Progressive Morality

Emin, Tracey

• Tracey Emin’s new series of Forgot Drawings are brutally honest
  
• It’s time to finally retire “radical”

Ernst, Max

• How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters.
• It’s time to finally retire “radical”

Freud, Lucien

• Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #3: Lucien Freud
• Fake Abstract Expressionist paintings sold for millions (as an example of painting that can’t easily be faked)
• In Defense of Artist, Francis Bacon (small section on Freud towards the end of the article)
• Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt (included as a significant influence)

Gallagher, Jacqueline

• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Gauguin, Paul

• Is The New Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold Horribly Flawed?! (About the unintentional anatomical anomalies in his art)
• Why the Still Image is Still Vital (this is pro-Gauguin)

Golub, Leon

• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Grey, Alex

• Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #2: Alex Grey

Heizer, Michael

• Artist Vandalizes “Levitating Mass” Boulder at LACMA
  

Hesse, Eva

• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative

Hirst, Damien

• Is the influence of the ultra rich killing art? Part 4, Damien Hirst (Feature article about Hirst)
• Hirst’s new Mega-Show: Vacuous Baubles of, by, and for, the Morbidly Wealthy
• The Thin Gold Line Between Radical Art Appropriation and Hackneyed Plagiarism. (About another Hirst plagiarism).
• Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington on Art: Enlightening Bollocks (Hirst is discussed here)
• The argument against artist’s assistants. The doer vs the orderer.
• “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast.
• Which “artist” do you prefer, Koons or Hirst?
• Damien Hirst “Goo Paintings” at Gagonian
  
• Damien Hirst’s return to skull paintings 
• Interview with Damien Hirst (‘s shark) by me
  
• Worse than Hirst, a review of my art
  

Hoffman, Hans

• It’s time to finally retire “radical”

Horn, Rebecca

• Carl & Ana: Art, Suicide, Murder, Belief

Immer, Charlie

• Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #1: Charlie Immer

Jenkins, Casey

• The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art

Jenkings, Paul

• 10 Abstract Expressionists, and the signature styles that killed them*

Joyner, Eric

• Artists I like: Eric Joyner

Juron, James

• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Kandinsky, Wassily

• It’s time to finally retire “radical”

Kawara, On

• On Kawara’s Last Painting, and the futility of a rarified signature style.
  

Kienholz, Ed and Nancy

• It’s time to finally retire “radical” (as a more worthwhile kind of art-making)

Klein, Yves

• The Radical New Same Old Shit
• Contemporary art lays a golden egg.

Kline, Franz

• 10 Abstract Expressionists, and the signature styles that killed them*

Koons, Jeff

• Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations)
• Is the influence of the ultra rich killing art? Part 3, Jeff Koons
• Koons’ “Balloon Dog (Orange)” isn’t art, it’s a decorative lawn ornament
• Koons’ Ballerina Plagiarist Buffoonery
• Reflections on the shiny surface of the Koons Retrospective.
• The Emperor’s Blue Balls: New Work by Jeff Koons
• Vincent’s dead but he never gets old, and Jeff Koons is already a skeleton.
• Koons, Appropriation, and Plagiarism (Again)!
• The argument against artist’s assistants. The doer vs the orderer.
• It’s time to finally retire “radical”
• The Radical New Same Old Shit
• Which “artist” do you prefer, Koons or Hirst?
• “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast.

Kosuth, Joseph

• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative (he takes some major hits here)
• How Postmodernism Has Worked Against Us.

Krzysztof Krawiec

• Krzysztof Krawiec

Kubin, Alfred

• Eerie Alfred Kubin: Forgotten Pioneer of Symbolism, Expressionism, and Surrealism

Levine, Sherrie

• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative (she gets “deconstructed”)

LeWitt, Sol

• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative (useful foil)

Lichtenstein, Roy

• In Defense of Artist, Glenn Brown (includes Lichtenstein’s appropriations of cartoons)

Manzoni, Piero

• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
• It’s time to finally retire “radical”

Marshall, Kerry James

• The Obama Portraits and Wiley’s Beheaded White Woman Paintings

Matta, Roberto

• The Insectoid Figurative Gems of Roberto Matta
• New Art: Octrui (Inspired by Matta) (an homage by me)

McCarthy, Paul

• Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (A very large section about McCarthy’s work here.)
• Artist Paul McCarthy makes an 80 ft. balloon dog.
• My former art teacher made a giant inflatable butt plug, and then it got deflated!
• New video about Paul McCarthy’s “Tree”, with interview
  
• It’s time to finally retire “radical”

Meese, Jonathan

• Jonathan Meese: Master or Nutter?

Mendiata, Ana

• Carl & Ana: Art, Suicide, Murder, Belief
• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative

Modigliani, Amedeo

• 13 Erotic Nudes by Modigliani (shameless click-bait)

Moiré, Milo

• Contemporary art lays a golden egg.
• Milo Moiré’s latest nude performance stomps on feminism with high heels and smothers it with silicon implants (NSFW).
• Milo Moirés Fondling Boxes
• How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters.

Monet, Claude

• Art versus Anti-Art (Monet represents “art” here).
• How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters. (as influence on Pollock)

Newman, Barnett

• Buying Barnett Newman’s Art on Faith
• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative

Newton, Andrew

• Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt
• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Nolde, Emile

• New Art: “The Last Supper” (Tribute to Emil Nolde)

Park, David

• David Park: A return to figuration decades ahead of schedule.

Picasso, Pablo

• Duchamp killed Picasso, but only if you’re blind
• Duchamp Versus Picasso
• “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast. (Analyses why this quote does not fit Picasso.)

Pennington, Eric

• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Pollock, Jackson

• How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters.
• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
• 10 Abstract Expressionists, and the signature styles that killed them*
• Fake Abstract Expressionist paintings sold for millions
• It’s time to finally retire “radical”

Prince, Richard

• Appropriation Is Dead. Richard Prince’s Instagram “Paintings”.
• Richard Prince’s copy of someone else’s instagram sells for $90,000: the good news, and the bad news.
• Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (Prince is discussed here)

Rattanarithikul, Manop (The Mosquito Painter of Thailand)

• The Mosquito Painter

Ray, Charles

• Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (Ray’s work is discussed here)

Regutti, Amy

• The tantalizingly Mysterious Painted Figures of Amy Regutti

Rembrandt van Rijn

• Rembrandt by Himself = worth watching. (A movie review)

Reynolds, Dean

• Interview with Painter, Dean Reynolds

Richter, Gerhardt

• Gerhardt Richter’s Crappy Digital Stripe Paintings
• Sophie Derrick: Exhilarating Expressionist Impasto Paintings (section on him as a positive influence)
• Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt (included as a significant influence)
• What is Real in Art?

Riopelle, Jean-Paul

• 10 Abstract Expressionists, and the signature styles that killed them*

Rojas, Adrián Villar

• Shitting on Michelangelo Makes YOU Great!

Rockwell, Norman

• Censoring and Burning Art in the Name of Progressive Morality (brief discussion of his masterpiece, “The Problem We All Live With”

Rosenquist, James

• Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations) (included here as an important influence)

Rothko, Mark

• 10 Abstract Expressionists, and the signature styles that killed them*
• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
• Newness is everything in art, except new. Whistler and Rothko.

Ryman, Robert

• Robert Ryman – Whiting Out Art for Posterity

Salle, David

• Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations) (included here as an important influence)

Masakatsu. Sashie

• The Giant Hovering Orb Paintings of Masakatsu Sashie

Schutz, Dana

• Radical Activists Demand The End of an Artist’s Career
• Censoring and Burning Art in the Name of Progressive Morality
• Should This Painting be Destroyed?

Scully, Tyler

• Tyler Scully’s Expressionist Trump Paintings

Sherald, Amy

• The Obama Portraits and Wiley’s Beheaded White Woman Paintings

Sherman, Cindy

• In Defense of Cindy Sherman.

Stella, Frank

• Frank Stella: Foyer Artist

Still, Clifford

• 10 Abstract Expressionists, and the signature styles that killed them*

Van Gogh, Vincent

• Vincent’s dead but he never gets old, and Jeff Koons is already a skeleton.
• The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art (Big section on Van Gogh here)
• The Red Vineyard, and why Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime.
• Evolutionary Vs. Revolutionary and Traditional Art (Vincent is an example of “Evolutionary Art”.
• “Van Gogh Self-Portrait With Cut Ear”: Background and details. (Has a section on my appreciation of Van Gogh)
• In Defense of Artist, Francis Bacon (section on Bacon’s tribute paintings to Van Gogh)
• In Defense of Artist, Glenn Brown (includes Vincent’s copies after other artists)
• Wonderful Documentary about a Chinese Van Gogh Copy Artist.

Veruschka

• Sophie Derrick: Exhilarating Expressionist Impasto Paintings (section on her as an influence)

Viken Trude

• Instagram Gem O’ Th’day #4: Trude Viken

Ward, Bryan Kent

• Interview with dark visionary artist, Bryan Kent Ward
• Death and Regeneration: The Dark Vision of Bryan Kent Ward
• Dark Art for Bright People: 16 Artists

Warhol, Andy

• “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast.
• New Art: Andy foresaw it all.
• What if I’m wrong?
• Is the influence of the ultra rich killing art? (incl. Robert Hughes calling him stupid)
• Basquiat’s Lost Portrait of Warhol Poised to Fetch $150,000,000.
• It’s time to finally retire “radical”
• Mommy Why Warhol

Waterhouse, John William

• The Waterhouse Water Nymphs Debate: Is Censorship Art?
• Rebuttal to Sonya Boyce’s Defense of Removing Waterhouse’s Painting

Weiner, Lawrence

• Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative (he gets savaged here)
• Art Criticism Book Review: Tom Wolfe, “The Painted Word”

Weiwei, Ai

• Ai Weiwei, Refugee Vests, and the Inarticulateness of Conceptual Art
• Ai Weiwei, Refugee Vests, and the Inarticulateness of Conceptual Art: Video Version

West, Kanye

• Kanye West’s Sculpture Killed Conceptual Art

Whistler, James McNeill

• Newness is everything in art, except new. Whistler and Rothko.

Wiley, Kehinde

• The Obama Portraits and Wiley’s Beheaded White Woman Paintings

Wool, Christopher

• Christopher Wool’s new introspective honesty
• Christopher Wool’s latest painting, “Uncle Jack”
  
• Is the influence of the ultra rich killing art?<