Deseret News | Reader comments: BYU showcases '60s and '70s art rebels

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BYU showcases '60s and '70s art rebels

what the? | 6:23 a.m. Aug. 3, 2008

There's a docent at the museum in bare feet? (black skirt, white shirt) Guessing she's a volunteer, but still. Isn't there a "no shoes, no shirt, no service" dress code for the museum?

becoming art | 6:32 a.m. Aug. 3, 2008

Personally, I think the accompanying photo showing the four onlookers in front of Pearlescent Flood is intriguing. It's as if the artist create a space for the people to become part of the art. Considering the title of the piece, adding these people to it, makes for interesting contemplation. Other onlookers viewed in this fashion could evolve the contemplation into something else.

I may just go down there and watch the people looking at the art.

Anonymous | 8:21 a.m. Aug. 3, 2008

Yellow shoes, not bare feet. Lest these comments become too trite, I'll just say it looks like a unique and refreshing exhibit. Thanks for the article!

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amazing difference | 10:28 a.m. Aug. 3, 2008

Thanks, Anonymous, lol. The yellow is rather obvious. Truly, it wasn't so early this morning. Kudos to the airbrush artist.

Hmmm. This must be a "work in progress" exhibit including the photos of it.

Whatever. It does look like a worthy go see.

lol

art lover | 12:59 p.m. Aug. 3, 2008

I've never been so excited for an art show in Utah county. The work is from some of my very favorite artists. I encourage anyone remotely interested in art to go check this out. If you do, make sure to take some time and try to figure out what the artists were really trying to say. These artworks require thought to appreciate. Thanks for the article and thanks to the museum for putting on this show!

Rebels?? | 4:49 p.m. Aug. 3, 2008

Nowadays, to be a true rebel in an art world where anything and everything is done in the name of art you have to have real skills in drawing, painting, sculpture, etc.

Matt | 5:49 p.m. Aug. 3, 2008

I don't want to know "what the artist was thinking." In fact I bet the artist wasn't thinking anything when they created the art, because they knew that the viewer would interpret their simple creation any way they wanted to. Shouldn't I read a journal entry or essay to know someone's thoughts? This exhibit is a joke. It doesn't display visual art. Visual art is art relying on vision. And if you can't gain an appreciation of art simply by seeing (and not have to have somebody explain it to you) then it is not worth seeing.

Ernest T. Bass | 8:28 p.m. Aug. 3, 2008

"Cool has come to Provo"
HAHAHAHAHAHA
that's a good one.
Provo couldn't buy cool with all the money in the world.

art lover | 1:44 p.m. Aug. 4, 2008

Matt-
are you kidding? just because you don't like works of art doesn't mean they aren't art and they can't make a great exhibit. Do you really think that how the academic art world defines art should revolve around you and your opinions? Maybe you should come back to the show and actually try to learn something- stretch your mind a little bit. There is more to art than just visual- sometimes there is thinking involved, its called theory. You know for most people, our eyes are connected to our brains and we like to use the two together.

Andrew Cannon | 12:55 a.m. Aug. 19, 2008

It's funny how "revolutionary" this show is in Provo. Really? Late abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art are still up for debate? They happened THIRTY years ago. The question of whether or not they are ART happened THIRTY years ago. Since then MANY other things have happened that owe a lot, good or bad, to these movements. It's not an option to just write it off or call it mindless. Why such distrust? This type of reception is typical of Provo, a place and culture that does not value new anything. Even the press release is half-hearted. Of course no one likes the exhibition- most of these people don't realize that anything happened inbetween Monet and Simon Dewey. How are you expected to engage with a Donald Judd when all you know about art is hanging in the foyer on Sundays?

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Visitors look at "Pearlescent Flood" by Jules Olitski, background, and "49 Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes" by Sol Lewitt, foreground.

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