What Art Is, Part 4: The Fashioning of Art
The word fashion can refer both to forces within art, and to some of the most subtle imitations of art. A fashion is a style or trend, normally in clothing. Fashion changes. The parade of changing styles in art history might be compared to a succession of fashions. Fashion also means fashionable: stylish, attractive, tasteful, or conforming to a trend. Participation in the cutting-edge of fashion means having the newest, most obnoxious clothing available, making the continual replacement of the products of fashion intrinsic to their function. Fashion must be new, which is the same thing as being instantly out-dated.Geometric Abstraction with Tweed (oil on canvas, 2005) is a double-dichromatic square, divided in two. The left side roughly approximates this currently fashionable fabric, and the right offers a reinterpretation of the familiar pattern. The painting promotes an idea for tweed, and frames an investigation of the artist as fashion designer.
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