Talk:Dana Schutz

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This page reads like an advertisement for Dana Schutz, it is not in an encylopedic style, and it will need to be entirely rewritten. For now I'm going to make it a stub with just the barest information about her, as I know nothing about her. Anyone with more information can feel free to add more. --Xyzzyplugh 00:06, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

I tidied it up. Aroundthewayboy 20:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

i just took out the following because i thought it didn't sound encyclopedic:

Working within strict self-imposed codes of representation, Dana Schutz’s practice is born of a highly complex notion of ‘the artist’ as author, inventor, magician, scientist and even divine power. Through painting Schutz creates and rules over a fantasy world of obscure invention and functionless objects, populated by a cast of characters that are bizarre, grotesque and delightful.

Schutz’s paintings boast fables of exotic culture and ritual and offer dark suggestions of foreign existence that are sophisticated and barbarian in equal measure. Albinos, mutants and a tribe of people who eat themselves are recorded with comedic, anthropological devotion. Curious landscapes and still-lifes serve as documentary evidence of her clans’ strange ways and savage ceremonies.

Infused with a primal urgency, Schutz’s wildly expressive style and garish palette endow her aberrant illusions with a tangible physicality. Schutz authenticates her constructions through a well-versed art history ranging from Paul Gauguin to Philip Guston.



Aroundthewayboy 04:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's very hard to write about an artist's work without it starting to sound like criticism (art criticism -- positive or negative). And yet, some description of their work and perhaps how art writers/thinkers place their work is important. Not easy to find that balance. NSpector 16:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)