{"id":767,"date":"2011-11-26T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2011-11-27T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T13:04:26","slug":"the-method-and-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"The method and the market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_768\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardcharringtonsmallwork.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-768\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-768\" title=\"RCH_SmallWork1a\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/RCH_SmallWork1a-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/RCH_SmallWork1a-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/RCH_SmallWork1a.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small work by Harrington<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rick Harrington has been working on twenty-five small paintings simultaneously, all variations on his barn motif. Has the barn graduated to the level of an archetype yet? It has for him, anyway. As the foundation of a method, it\u2019s an endless source of ways to study light and color. Like Monet\u2019s haystacks and cathedrals, or Rothko\u2019s horizon lines. I love what he does with it, working in thin coats, letting a complementary undercoat vibrate against the value of the paint closest to the surface. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattklos.com\/maine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Klos<\/a>, a Baltimore area artist who\u2019s represented by Oxford, here in Rochester, often relies on this technique as well\u2014in an intentionally visible way, as Rick does.) And he really knows how to balance the crisp, angular, geometric shadows of a roof against the soft, hazier treatment of the barn\u2019s terrain. Harrington\u2019s project has yielded a number of benefits. He appears to be working quickly by learning things with one image that he can then immediately apply to the others, on the fly. He&#8217;s focusing on method, so that he doesn\u2019t make a fetish of the individual work, a standard\u00a0 tough to maintain. It\u2019s hard not to play favorites, in terms of technique, with particular paintings. I suspect he\u2019s also better able to see all of the key personal choices that serve as the foundation of his style, and, therefore, his visual world. How to handle the paint; what colors to choose; how many different hues can one image bear without collapsing; how to make both the values and the hues work together; and how far can he take the image into abstraction without losing the sense of his light source, the time of day, the season. Amazingly, his best images convey all those realities, while still maintaining the simplicity of abstraction. It\u2019s all a lesson in how little it can require\u2014how little in terms of \u201cinformation\u201d imparted by an image\u2014to convey the sense of the actual, as well as the more elusive sense of a particular artist\u2019s stylistic world.<\/p>\n<p>The other side of what he\u2019s doing\u2014the pricing, the marketing, the appeal to buyers\u2014is actually part of what makes his work strong. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/The_invisible_dragon.html?id=5CQBb8GIxs8C\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Hickey<\/a> maintains that a work of art has to find a home in the market\u2014a central tenet of his thinking about what makes it vital. One need only say \u201cVan Gogh\u201d as a counter-argument. Yet, there&#8217;s a lot of truth in his perspective. Hickey\u2019s beef is that art should first of all bring someone enough pleasure\u00a0 that he or she will want to take it home. He loves to celebrate art that seduces and charms, first and foremost, before it ever gives you anything to think about, which it doesn\u2019t actually need to do. It <em>does<\/em> need to bring at least a reminder of joy, if not the genuine article. Without this, it\u2019s a matter of asking a viewer to just shut up, take those vitamins and skip the meal. The question, as always, is how far you can focus on what people will pay to see without losing what gives the work its heart. Rick\u2019s work never seems falsified for a sale, though: he finds a way to paint that brings him the deepest satisfaction and, therefore, has a chance of offering someone else the same sense of fulfillment while looking at it. If the amount of time invested in the painting can be reflected in a price that a potential buyer can afford, that\u2019s the sweet spot, I think, Hickey was advocating. Rick\u2019s getting pretty close to that in this small works project\u2014in all of his painting, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rick Harrington has been working on twenty-five small paintings simultaneously, all variations on his barn motif. Has the barn graduated to the level of an archetype yet? It has for him, anyway. As the foundation of a method, it\u2019s an endless source of ways to study light and color. 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