Friday, September 16, 2011

Critical and analytical

This past summer the Art Gallery of Alberta hosted a touring exhibition of many of Andy Warhol's works. The curator must of been very proud to that the AGA was the only place in Canada hosting it. I'm rather happy I saw it before my membership expired, of course. (hahah)
The web page is still up, and the Silver Clouds exhibit was wonderful.
AGA page here!
Anyways, totally early yesterday morning after I finished writing the previous weird post I was sitting on the floor looking through a book of Mr. Warhol's portraits. I passed out for half an hour and had a strange dream.
Around 1983 and so on Warhol did a few portraits of Ryuichi Sakamoto, and naturally the impression Sakamoto made on Warhol comes out. He appears very handsome and elegant, main features outlined.
I can't tell anybody how to feel about them, but they can easily be found on Google of course.
So, as I was somewhat saying. I fell asleep briefly looking through this huge book.
I guess, I was dreaming that a woman in a bright blue blazer was talking to me about her record collection and we were looking at one of these portraits. She said something along the lines of, "The way he looks, it tells more about his music than any critical analysis can."
I was thinking about this when I woke up and had to go to class. I have an awesome internal alarm clock, it would work better if I didn't procrastinate.

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