Comments on: Michael Govan on Levitated Mass

By: artgod1

artgod1 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:36:52 +0000

Um, Danny, did you see this?

http://www.planetware.com/picture/colorado-springs-garden-of-the-gods-us-col130.htm

By: Richard Crawford

Richard Crawford — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:25:46 +0000

This is wrong headed art. Rocks should NOT BE MOVED from their natural environment. Rocks have their own INTELLIGENCE. LACMA, the artist: both are simple minded.

By: Danny Johnston

Danny Johnston — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:32:36 +0000

I have Lived My Life in Southern California (!950) Bloomington California, Was and Is, My Home. I Grew up and played in and around The Sand & Gravel Pits and Rock Quarries That Produced The Materials that Would become The Great Cites of Southern California. Freeways the Highways And Highrise's The Jetty's and Harbors The Concert Halls The Court House's And The "Museums" I For One Think that a Great Work of Art as this has been long overdue I stood and Looked At This Beautiful Structure And The Big and Bold Mass Of Riverside Granite That Stands above it And gazed at it's Surroundings of all The Tall Buildings This is the Perfect Home For This Grand and Historical Monument. Generations yet to Come will Look at this and Marvel and They will Know without a Doubt Why this Is Here Mike Heizer Is a Visionary. A Special Kind Of Person that if you get to Know him even a little bit You Feel Honored Danny Johnston

By: artgod1

artgod1 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:43:54 +0000

Much better and FREE! Cleaner – didn’t have to drag it around on a truck.

http://www.planetware.com/picture/colorado-springs-garden-of-the-gods-us-col130.htm

By: Paul Shindler

Paul Shindler — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:31:47 +0000

So Tam, according to your theory, REAL art by gifted people(Rembrandt, Picasso, etc.), is in your words “superficial or frivolous”, so therefore this dusty boulder hung over ugly concrete is more significant? And these other things were merely “to be LOOKED at”, I guess meaning “looking” at great art is not a very valid aesthetic experience, in your world anyway. And I guess you are suggesting that being under this rock, with maybe thought of being crushed by it, is a greater experience? What do you call it – “almost” performance art? The twisted thinking by the promoters of this rock is more entertaining(and creative) than the rock itself. Perhaps that was the goal all along.

By: Tam3@yahoo.com

Tam3@yahoo.com — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:26:56 +0000

Traditional art, meaning paintings on walls or sculptures on tables, in many instances was merely decoration for a home or public building. Such things were objects to be looked at (allow me to repeat that: something that is to be LOOKED at), to fill up space, to cover up otherwise empty sections of a hallway, or to smooth over bare spots between a foyer and living room.

In other words, when you get right down to it, the type of art that most people immediately think of as — or equate with — ART has, in its own right, a somewhat superficial or frivolous background. So installing a large boulder in an artificial setting actually is not all that different from “art” as most people define it, meaning it’s a variation of hanging a painting on a wall or installing vases on a fireplace mantle, etc.

By: Paul Shindler

Paul Shindler — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:11:55 +0000

A note of caution. One does not want to be experiencing the wonders of Levitated Mass during an earthquake.

By: Thomas Dolliver Stone

Thomas Dolliver Stone — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:55:22 +0000

Well, it’s been a few months since Levitated Mass has debuted, is it the massive draw to LACMA as envisioned by LACMA’s management? Or, is it a monument to the gullibility of people in the art world who so freely spend other people’s money?

David Hockney, Henry Moore, Eric Fischl: YES!!!

Non-descript boulder: No.

Hey, maybe eventual erosion of the boulder’s surface will reveal the face of the Madonna in a few years.

By: Paul Shindler

Paul Shindler — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:44:37 +0000

So someone picks out a huge rock in the desert, a LOT of other people move it and get it mounted on this concrete walkway – and he viewed as a superb creator? It gives weight to that great line by the late Marshall McLuhan – “Art is anything you can get away with!” How true.

By: M. Wills

M. Wills — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:50:51 +0000

Come on ….. stop the negativity! Or what you will term your personal thoughts and your right to them……let it be what it is and calm down. I loved it at first sight and support its existence.