{"id":1205,"date":"2009-10-25T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T20:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/victor_hugos_smoke_and_ash\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T20:28:18","slug":"victor_hugos_smoke_and_ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/victor_hugos_smoke_and_ash.html","title":{"rendered":"Victor Hugo&#8217;s fine lines and smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the 19th century, painters thought of Victor Hugo as a writer, and writers called him a painter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"victorhugocastle.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/victorhugocastle.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"620\" width=\"400\" \/>Now that few who are not forced read his famous novels (thick in every sense), his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawingcenter.org\/exh_past.cfm?exh=169\">1998 exhibit<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawingcenter.org\/exh_current.cfm\">Drawing Center<\/a> was decisive. Writers don&#8217;t claim him, but painters need to, as his connection in the visual realm is decisive. His semi-abstractions freely range from the specific to the general,<br \/>\nzeroing in and fading out, suggesting vast amounts of time crawling by<br \/>\nand smoke hanging amid ruins. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"victorhugoboatpink.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/victorhugoboatpink.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"400\" width=\"312\" \/>The link between him and certain painters of the present moment is the use of fine lines that cut through vapor to shovel smoke.<\/p>\n<p>In Seattle, there&#8217;s Mary Ann Peters, now on view at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Previous%20Exhibitions\/maryannpeters102009.html\">James Harris Gallery<\/a>. (Images below from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Previous%20Exhibitions\/peters012006.htm\">2006 exhibit<\/a>. Review of current one to follow.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"maryannpetersgold.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/maryannpetersgold.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"315\" width=\"401\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"maryannpetersgray.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/maryannpetersgray.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"315\" width=\"401\" \/>In San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/waterston_flowering.htm\">Darren Waterston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"darrenwaterred.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/darrenwaterred.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"553\" width=\"400\" \/>In New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winkleman.com\/artist\/view\/760\">Christopher Lowry Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"christopherjohnsonprez.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/christopherjohnsonprez.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"322\" width=\"430\" \/>In LA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardhouse.net\/artists\/delosreyes\/default.html\">Tony De Los Reyes<\/a>, at Howard House through Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tonydelosreyesfog.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/tonydelosreyesfog.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"505\" width=\"400\" \/>In LA and New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margoleavingallery.com\/artists\/16\">Gary Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"garysimmonshugo.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/garysimmonshugo.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"400\" width=\"401\" \/>In New York and London, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/artists\/cecily-brown\/\">Cecily Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CecilyBrownhugo.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/CecilyBrownhugo.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"460\" width=\"400\" \/>And two more from Seattle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sedersgallery.com\/Artists\/062\/ThomasRESf.html\">Barbara Earl Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"barbaraearlthugo.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/barbaraearlthugo.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"165\" width=\"476\" \/>&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartresource.com\/inventory\/callahan10.htm\">Kenneth Callahan<\/a>, a drawing from 1972.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kennethcallahanfog.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kennethcallahanfog.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"388\" width=\"526\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the 19th century, painters thought of Victor Hugo as a writer, and writers called him a painter. 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