Original upload date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:41:16 GMT
A Sketch Movies Sizzle-Doc of Artist Robert Williams latest body of work:
"Opening the evening will be Robert Williams: Slang Aesthetics by Steve "Sketch" Vallino, a fast-paced expose of the artist's
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recent retrospective at Barnsdall Community Art Center in Los Angeles. This new short film includes narration by Williams himself and features highlights from the opening of this landmark show"
- JUXTAPOZ Magazine
"Pablo Picasso said it best, “Sophistication is the greatest enemy of imagination.” Sophistication as our parents knew it is gone.
With the Internet, everything is changing so fast that slang and colloquialisms are as valid as the King’s English. In fact, slang represents freedom from pretension leaving artists to function as they please.
The Cartoon, a form of simple visual presentation, is the most versatile and malleable form of communication in the recorded vocabulary of Art. Yet the lowly cartoon, with its giant vernacular, is treated like a comic doodle.
With Art, the bottom will always come up to the top. The strongest creative urges are better expressed simply as “Slang Aesthetics.”
-Robert Williams
