Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<<Shoot it out of focus paint it red and call it art.>>> No kidding! Last month I went to the SFMOMA to see the Watkins exhibit of 19th century West Coast landscape photography (excellent!). Afterwards, I went downstairs to the modern collection....and to think I've been throwing away those out of focus pictures of my feet and the sidewalk on the beginning of the roll ... I had no idea they were considered museum quality! Perhaps most amazing was an all white painting in 3 panels from the 1950's -- not even brushworks because the "artist" wanted to convey the absence of artistic input! The proverbial white rabbit in a snow bank. Get some large canvas, a can of white satin latex and a Wagner Power Painter, and you could put out at least 5 or 6 an hour, if you were being careful! Tom Schofield