tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post5585363859917720508..comments2024-02-11T09:55:50.468-08:00Comments on The Eastside View: Terry St. John: paintingsCharles Sherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-80151848640185940352014-08-10T15:49:37.097-07:002014-08-10T15:49:37.097-07:00There's so much to be said about your last par...<i>There's so much to be said about your last paragraph. There are two kinds of provincial cultures, I think: those that think they are the center of the universe, and those who feel marginal to the self-appointed centers. The first Bay Area art culture I knew was that of the 1950s and early 1960s, which was composed of men and women who knew global things but who worked in an area still relatively isolated. Television and jet travel changed that. The Bay Area went from a community comfortable with its own identity to one self-consciously uncertain about it. What Oakland used to be to San Francisco, the Bay Area became to New York. Critics and curators began to be imported from back east. Regionalism has become a dirty word, but Sense of Place is honorable. Alas, it fell out of fashion. I cherish and honor the artists who continue to observe it, rejecting Koonishness, continuing to expand organically on their own place and history. <br /><br />I didn't know about Harold Frank, whose Wikipedia entry suggests he was a New York painter who later moved to Southern California. Nor am I familiar with Henry Villierme's work. After a childhood in Tahiti he spent his teens in the Bay Area, apparently, and studied under Diebenkorn at California College of Arts and Crafts before resettling to Southern California. </i>Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-61890101908823069452014-08-10T09:18:36.528-07:002014-08-10T09:18:36.528-07:00I'm delighted to have been introduced to more ...I'm delighted to have been introduced to more powerful Bay Area Expressionist painters, the "J's", as you call them.<br /><br />I'd add two more to this growing group of under-represented painters from this school: Harold Frank and Henry Villierme. <br /><br />Why do believe that the Bay Area School has gotten such little exposure, compared to East Coast artists doing similar work? Is it really just that so much of art criticism came from the East in the mid-20th century?<br />Susan Benfordnoreply@blogger.com