Clyfford and Morris, a combo platter
The Slow Art Movement (taking your sweet time to consume art and not scarf it down) has its fans, and I like to think I’m one of them. That said, when adjusting to the slower pace of looking at art, my lower back rebels. A brief stretch on a bench helps, but there are never enough. Museums, get massage stations, please! They exist in malls for slow shoppers, after all. Suffering aside, when taking that long look, I’m eventually drawn to the framing. If frameless, and the staples are visible, I assume that a frame was planned, then nixed. Perfect; I have a thing for staples. So, with apologies to my back, I hover with my camera, careful not to set off an alarm, to find a candidate for the “Museumings” gallery; in this case it’s a combo platter.
For a wonderful glimpse at the slow art movement, check out the podcast “A Long Look”. As the host (and ol’ friend) Karen Jackson puts it, “a better way to connect with art.”
A color-altered combination platter of two staples of American Culture in the 1950’s - details of PH-143 (1955), oil on canvas by Clyfford Still, and Unfurled Series: Beta Ro, acrylic on canvas by Morris Louis at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. #LACMA.
See the individual works below.
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