{"id":5543,"date":"2015-03-11T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T21:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2015-03-06T14:25:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T14:25:29","slug":"puns-and-playful-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=5543","title":{"rendered":"Puns and polarities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_5063.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5544\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_5063-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5063\" width=\"492\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_5063-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_5063-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_5063-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_5063.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dupe. Duplicate. Dupe the mate. Mate. Mate meet. Separate. Rate. Mate rate.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a stream-of-consciousness improvisation, a free association of possible painting titles from Frederick Hammersley. When you string them out into a line that way, it sounds like a mordant poem about a bad marriage descending\u00a0into sordid\u00a0one-night stands with strangers. Yet those words, in that order, are from the lists of brainstormed\u00a0titles (above) from Hammersley&#8217;s notebooks. His pages are reprinted on the covers, and inside the covers, of a\u00a0slim, beautifully printed\u00a0catalog published for a show I saw at Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe three years ago. I hate titles for paintings&#8211;shouldn&#8217;t paintings just\u00a0be numbered or dated?&#8211;but in Hammersley&#8217;s case the titles can supposedly enhance\u00a0your ability to see what&#8217;s happening in the work, as the catalog&#8217;s essay by David Reed examines in an interesting\u00a0way. Yet the stacks of words\u00a0all seem slightly parasitical to me, as if the unused\u00a0side of the artist&#8217;s brain is getting even for all the fun his alternate number\u00a0is having. Hammersley&#8217;s hues\u00a0are the most unadulterated and intensely saturated colors of\u00a0any oil painting I&#8217;ve ever seen. Noland and Stella invented sophisticated color harmonies you hadn&#8217;t seen before, but Hammersley seems to offer his unambiguously radiant colors in ultra-simple compositions, contained in mostly uniform\u00a0squarish\u00a0spaces, as if to say, <em>look<\/em> <em>what I found today! Have you ever seen a yellow like that! <\/em>Each of his colors seems an end in itself, pure play, regardless of whatever else is placed around it. Each color he puts down plays well with others\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0seems\u00a0the\u00a0king of infinite space, all at once.\u00a0And then there are those lists of titles that either make you laugh or wonder what he meant, such as\u00a0<em>In Two the Fray, Altered Ego, Savoir Pair,\u00a0<\/em>but either way, once you see the title, the thinking takes over and the looking falls in line behind it.\u00a0<em>\u00a0Doh.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dupe. Duplicate. Dupe the mate. Mate. Mate meet. Separate. Rate. Mate rate. That&#8217;s a stream-of-consciousness improvisation, a free association of possible painting titles from Frederick Hammersley. When you string them out into a line that way, it sounds like a mordant poem about a bad marriage descending\u00a0into sordid\u00a0one-night stands with strangers. 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