Archive for the ‘Royce Weatherly’ Category
Entry 1107 — ARTnews “Critic’s Pick”
Saturday, June 1st, 2013
This also is from the June issue of ARTnews.
Okay, Weatherly is a fine craftsman, and his still life is interesting–a fine expression of a now widely-accepted value of superior art: its reminding us of the ability of the ordinary to provide aesthetic delight. But nothing more. Thinking about why brought to mind Williams’s red wheelbarrow, but much better. Or does it? I think so because both works present ordinary objects sensitively-arranged. But Williams’s arrangement is also a poem. Weatherly presents a cup, Williams a wheelbarrow–and something made of words, beautifully-made of words.
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