#no!art

[thesobsister]

Boris Lurie, Silver NO on Torn Pinups (c. 1963)

[xandra-nova]

so this, i guess, is where it all began. a small handmade notebook that i got as a present from Anu, my mate’s then-girlfriend in Tallinn in 2018. of course, i always liked to do something artsy and creative, but the fraud police was always on my back as well, and most of these things have never seen the light. well, until i got THIS in my hands. i have no idea why though. i felt some kind of really positive energy that she put into her present, and also, to me that time was about a start of total emotional unstability, so it had to find it’s way out. and what is better for expressing emotion than a blank piece of paper?

anyway, anything i did then (and now) was automatical, simple, and contained words or phrases usually. stuck inside my head or borrowed from music or anything. much close to what my heroes did, but without...um...originality, i guess. just to throw the emotion on the paper and forget it. now the pages of this small notebook are covered in ink, paint, glue, glitter and everything I could find... tears as well. such time it was. and now it’s time for sharing. because i think it all went out cute. 

[borislurieart]

Boris Lurie, 1963, Altered Photos (Cabot Lodge)

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[mikeaaronmalone]

[borislurieart]

The ‘Art of NO’ exhibit opens at DVC

Julian Mark September 10, 2013

Students, patrons and artists gathered in the DVC art gallery on Thursday, Sept. 5 to say yes to the “Art of NO.”

The “Art of NO,” an avant-garde movement that started in the late 50s, is now available in the DVC art gallery.

Submitted by artists from all around the country, DVC’s “Art of NO” exhibit features a provocative range of paintings and sculptures, and even pieces aiming to deny art itself. From Little Red Riding Hood to a giant Obama face composed of plastic army men and their cast shadows, the “Art of NO” pieces all share one concept in common: protest. 

The “Art of NO” began in New York in 1959. Boris Lurie, a New York artist and holocaust survivor, initiated the “Art of NO,” which rejected the commonly accepted abstract expressionism and pop art of the time, highlighting topics such as repression, destruction and sexism.

Art history professor, Kristen Koblik, liked the way other past “Art of NO” work rejected particular political movements, so she decided it was time for DVC to hold an exhibit of its own. 

“It’s a way to tell the temperature of where we are right now in accordance to other historical movements,” Koblik said.

The Art of No doesn’t only protest politics. In response to Michael Berens’ “DEWD,” Koblik said, “this piece says ‘no’ to traditional composition and the overall art aesthetic.”

Lindy Vargas, an art history major, is skeptical. “I’m just kind of confused. Some of the art is so interpretive people can make up their own meaning. I don’t feel it’s always interpreted correctly.”

Although some feel that interpretation and understanding do not even belong to the “Art of No” ethos.

“Whether people justify the art is irrelevant,” art history student Travis Castro said. “If it’s good enough for the artist it’s good enough for me.”

Koblik explained, “the artists feel that people ought not to say ‘yes’ at all. Your ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is irrelevant.”

- See more at: http://www.theinquireronline.com/top-stories/2013/09/10/the-art-of-no-exhibit-opens-at-dvc/#sthash.bXUHb2jf.dpuf

[borislurieart]

The price for collaboration in art is - as in the concentration camps - excremental suffocation. It is not by submission, coolness, apathy, boredom that great art is created - no matter what the cynics tell us. The secret ingredient is what is the most difficult to learn - courage.

Boris Lurie, "Shit Show", Introduction, 1964.

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