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Image:
10.00" x 7.50"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
15.50" x 13.00"
Escape Artist Framed Print
by Richard Barone
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Escape Artist framed print by Richard Barone. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Art historians agree that the emergence of a new style in the visual arts--a new ism--is highly unlikely. Artists facing this so-called dead end are... more
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Artist's Description
Art historians agree that the emergence of a new style in the visual arts--a new "ism"--is highly unlikely. Artists facing this so-called dead end are looking at the world with a pragmatic eye. One of these areas of reductionism is environmental art. These endeavors are highly contextual and often adopt interpretive brands that compete for market dominance. Escape Artist questions the aims of these opportune artists.
Have artists abandoned the higher calling to create artworks that are valued in their own right? Is the new emphasis on social and political issues an abandonment of the intrinsic meaning of art? History will show that artists cannot find solutions to these problems artistically.
Symbolic of this plight of the true artist is a Florida alligator that has survived impossible environmental odds for 37 million years. Though a hurricane has deconstructed a billboard's commercial significance, it heads in a new direction hoping not to become another roadkill.
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About Richard Barone
I was a great artist in the fifth grade, at least that�s what my fellow classmates and art teacher thought. My parents thought differently, however, and transferred me to a Catholic school, and that was the end of my art career. By the time I got to college, I was convinced that the intellectual search for truth was far superior to the aesthetic. I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and hadn�t taken one course in art. None were offered, even though the college professed the "liberal arts." In a sense, I was on the same course as Robert Motherwell (philosopher to artist), but for me the end came in the jungles of Vietnam. Philosophy and everything that I had learned�all the teachers, priests, and professors�had deserted me. Except...
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Jennifer Buerkle
Just wonderful.
Richard Barone replied:
Thank you.