Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)
“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of determination and belief. She began working on The Rose in 1958. She was 29 years old and for the next eight years, she did little else but sit on a stool in her studio, smoking cigarettes, drinking Christian bothers brandy while she painted and scraped away at her vision.
First titled The Deathrose, then The White Rose and finally just The Rose, DeFeo only stopped working on the painting when an increase in rent forced her from her studio. By then it was 1966, her marriage was ending, she was in fragile physical and mental health, and The Rose had become too large to fit out the door.
At nearly 12 feet high and in places eight inches thick, The Rose was constructed from layer upon layer of built up and scraped away black and white paint. DeFeo added mica chips to the paint and so The Rose has its own interior light.”
Lynn Chadwick（British, 1914-2003）with The Inner Eye, 1953
photograph by David Farrell
Come with me
down the road
to the light of nothing.
Giorgos Rorris - Γιώργος Ρόρρης
Alessandro Pessoli Amanti
INTERVENTION DE L’ARTISTE KOUKA : TAGS, MURALS ET GRAFFIT
À l’heure où le marché des d’oeuvres de street art explose, sommes-nous surs de bien comprendre le phénomène en cours ? Qu’est ce que le street art ? Pourquoi parlons-nous tantôt de street art, ou de graffiti, de tag ? Le philosophe Ollivier Pourriol (voir ici l’interview) avait distingué pour nous les notions de graffiti comme art ou vandalisme, notions que nous associons communément. Le street artiste Kouka illustre pour nous, au travers de son travail, comment les pratiques du graffiti, du tag, des murals, constituent une culture. Utilisée comme autant de codes par des artistes qui ont, entre autres, choisi la rue comme support de production et de diffusion, elle donne naissance à un mouvement : le street art.
Gustav Klimt, Portrait of a Girl, Head Slightly Turned Left, 1879
