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A creaky backroads art enthusiast, dilettante, and raconteur (who wishes to remain anonymous) endeavors each day to discover folk art models that the academically trained have with virtuosity exploited for riches and notoriety and, with good fortune, was recently astonished to find a Barnett Newman example (circa 1952) - adorned with flat field plywood, nifty geometric 'zips', and sliding door peep hole - audaciously prepared to contest the worldly and the celebrated: now, …would the honest pretender please step forward! (Answer key below.)
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ANSWER KEY:
Top:
Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublimis 1952
Middle:
Cousin BN Flowers. Striped Wall with Peep Hole
Webster Springs, West Virginia
Monday 30 May 2005
Bottom:
Barnett Newman. Adam, 1952
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you're right. All these city slickers were getting their ideas in the country! With a flourish of frenzy and a dollop of dignity, poof. That's art.
Please make 2007 the year you publish your work. Book TV and C-Span need you!
Posted by: Vermont Neighbor | 01 January 2007 at 12:05 PM
Heh. Barnett Newman probably never even made it to Webster Springs.
Posted by: rankin' rob | 01 January 2007 at 04:36 PM
A Magritte exhibit rolls into town for a few weeks. Clouds on the floor and false doors... oversize combs that dwarf a man, and busy freeways crossing the ceiling. Should add a few creases to the old cranium.
Posted by: Vermont Neighbor | 05 January 2007 at 11:08 PM
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