Comments on: Marco Sassone http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/04/02/marco-sassone/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:40:52 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Giovanni Mercuri http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/04/02/marco-sassone/comment-page-1/#comment-468798 Giovanni Mercuri Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:16:41 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/?p=948#comment-468798 Caro Marco, innanzi tutto Ti faccio i miei complimenti. La Tua pittura per molti aspetti mi ricorda quella Sovietica degli anni 70,ma molto di piu' mi ritorna in mente quella di Lucien Froid anche se come tematica diversa. Toronto Ti sta molto stretta,forse e' provinciale. A New York che e' il centro del Mondo dell'Arte avresti certamente maggior successo Ti auguro buona fortuna Con Emilia al fianco sono convinto aprirai altre porte Cordialmente Giovanni Mercuri Caro Marco,
innanzi tutto Ti faccio i miei complimenti. La Tua pittura per molti aspetti mi ricorda quella Sovietica
degli anni 70,ma molto di piu’ mi ritorna in mente
quella di Lucien Froid anche se come tematica diversa. Toronto Ti sta molto stretta,forse e’ provinciale. A New York che e’ il centro del Mondo dell’Arte avresti certamente maggior successo
Ti auguro buona fortuna Con Emilia al fianco sono convinto aprirai altre porte
Cordialmente

Giovanni Mercuri

]]> By: Charley Parker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/04/02/marco-sassone/comment-page-1/#comment-381880 Charley Parker Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:27:40 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/?p=948#comment-381880 Thanks for the additional insight into Sassone, Sarah. I hadn't gone that far into his background. Thanks for the additional insight into Sassone, Sarah. I hadn’t gone that far into his background.

]]> By: Charley Parker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/04/02/marco-sassone/comment-page-1/#comment-381881 Charley Parker Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:30:28 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/?p=948#comment-381881 Thanks, Daniel. I agree about the comparison to van Gogh's brushstrokes, there's a similar feeling of motion within the patterns of color that make up the representational image. Thanks, Daniel. I agree about the comparison to van Gogh’s brushstrokes, there’s a similar feeling of motion within the patterns of color that make up the representational image.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/04/02/marco-sassone/comment-page-1/#comment-381197 Sarah Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:00:19 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/?p=948#comment-381197 I think aside from the technicality employed by the artist, it is useful to point out that Marco Sassone’s lineage goes back to the Expressionist school. He studied at the academy in Florence, Italy, with a pupil of Oskar Kokoschka, the great Austrian Expressionist. In the exhibition catalogue for the Toronto show, Jonathan Goodman, who has written for Art in America, wrote something that relates well to this issue: “Sassone’s audience approaches his work knowing that the paintings are in dialogue with a tradition going back to the early twentieth century. His expressionism escapes the epithet of anachronistic, however, by being so sharply lived. While his works are not overly emotional, they gain success because they relate to a complete life of the imagination, in which feeling and intellect combine.” I think aside from the technicality employed by the artist, it is useful to point out that Marco Sassone’s lineage goes back to the Expressionist school. He studied at the academy in Florence, Italy, with a pupil of Oskar Kokoschka, the great Austrian Expressionist. In the exhibition catalogue for the Toronto show, Jonathan Goodman, who has written for Art in America, wrote something that relates well to this issue: “Sassone’s audience approaches his work knowing that the paintings are in dialogue with a tradition going back to the early twentieth century. His expressionism escapes the epithet of anachronistic, however, by being so sharply lived. While his works are not overly emotional, they gain success because they relate to a complete life of the imagination, in which feeling and intellect combine.”

]]> By: Daniel van Benthuysen http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/04/02/marco-sassone/comment-page-1/#comment-371457 Daniel van Benthuysen Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:15:39 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/?p=948#comment-371457 Charley, your first two paragraphs are a particualrly eloquent and succinct articulation of how many of us who ARE representational or more traditional artists react to an emphasis on the expressive or abstract. If the work I'm looking at is not faithfully realistic or bounded by rules of perspective and optics, what am I being shown and why? What has the artist done and where is he or she leading me? In Sassone's case there is a nervous energy in the handwriting of his brush strokes not unrelated to what van Gogh explored. With other artists, like Wolf Kahn for example, it's all in the luxuriant exploration of color. Art for art's sake - if we're going off the beaten path, where are we at the journey's end? With some artists the diversion is well worth the trip. With others we simply want to get back to the beaten path. Charley, your first two paragraphs are a particualrly eloquent and succinct articulation of how many of us who ARE representational or more traditional artists react to an emphasis on the expressive or abstract. If the work I’m looking at is not faithfully realistic or bounded by rules of perspective and optics, what am I being shown and why? What has the artist done and where is he or she leading me?

In Sassone’s case there is a nervous energy in the handwriting of his brush strokes not unrelated to what van Gogh explored. With other artists, like Wolf Kahn for example, it’s all in the luxuriant exploration of color.

Art for art’s sake – if we’re going off the beaten path, where are we at the journey’s end? With some artists the diversion is well worth the trip. With others we simply want to get back to the beaten path.

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