"The upright toothbrushes — as evenly spaced as Monet’s poplar trees —structure the air around them and provide evidence that Brainard, at heart, was a stickler for classical order.... In the three decades since Brainard’s death, the interest in his work has only increased. Last year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art received a gift of 16 of his best works, including 'Prell,' an assemblage that incorporates a dozen shapely shampoo bottles; and 'Whippoorwill,' a small, velvety painting of a long-limbed whippet reclining on a green couch...."
Writes Deborah Soloman in "No Ordinary Joe/The prodigious artist Joe Brainard reveled in making small-scale works, but as a new show reminds us, exemplified the soaring spirit of collaboration between painters and poets in the ’60s" (NYT).
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The only positive from the regnant aesthetic relativism is its inability to refute my belief that Brainerd and his cheerleaders are talentless scammers.
Prodigious?
Toothbrushes careful hung from threads of floss with care.
Personally enthralled by descriptions of artwork. Easily imagine sitting in museum and studying the toothbrushes. Exciting, inspirational, other worldly.
Not terrible. At least he took the time to depict his toothbrushes in a painting. I assumed he just arranged four actual toothbrushes and tried to sell that.
I'm long familiar with the name Joe Brainard, and I knew he was an artist or someone in the arts world, but I am not familiar with his work. I do like the little painting of the arrangement of toothbrushes.
'Whippoorwill,' a small, velvety painting of a long-limbed whippet reclining on a green couch....
Prodigious painter Joe Brainiac (or something like that) seems to be confusing a long-legged dog (whippet) with a long-singing and very annoying night-bird (whippoorwill).
Easy to get 'em mixed-up, I guess. Dog, bird, whatever.
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