Critical Visual Language

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35" x 51" - 88.9cm x 129.54cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 20, 2021.

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Critical Visual Language

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Writing emerged from imagery, when syllabary in the form of calligraphy split off from pictography such as Egyptian hieroglyphs. The invention of the alphabet promoted the intellect over emotions. Yet images did not disappear, nor did emotions lose their value, as the visual remained one of the non-verbal languages. These include body language, whose formal aspect is dance or performance, acoustic language, whose formal aspect is music and audio based works. Then there is visual language, where a picture is worth 666 words after post-modern inflation. These non-verbal languages exist due to their ability to say things that we cannot put into words. Even literature differentiates from text, because the high art of literature is based on the sound of the words, the cadence of the sentences, the poetry these evoke, the mood and feeling awakened when words rise above strict information.

Still, cultural workers must now be postmodern, which means to rebel against tradition. As traditional art was skillful, beautiful, and interesting, today's artists can prove their postmodern bona-fides by producing unskilled, ugly and boring work. I find such strategies juvenile. However since these paintings must transition to become postmodern and rebel against tradition, they must become controversial. They achieve this first being painted on cardboard, sacrificed the market values which are so characteristic of painting in favor of higher ambitions, as Walter Benjamiun wrote of Dada. The second sacrifice then is by writing on the images themselves, bringing text and at times literature to canvas. Such a heresy as the painted word makes this work conceptual, even as it attains the beauty and skill of a work of art. It is not just painting, it is an art of painting.

30" x 48" - 76.2cm x 121.92cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 097, 2021

24" x 48" - 60.96cm x 121.92cm, acrylic on canvas, Sept. 19, 2020.

29" x 40" - 71.12cm x 101.06cm, acrylic on cardboard, Nov.5, 2020

22" x 33" -55.88cm x 83.82cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 15, 2020.

29" x 54" - 73.66cm x 4169.16cm, acrylic on cardboard, Nov. 29, 2021

29" x 54" - 73.66cm x 4169.16cm, acrylic and inkhet on canvas , Sept. 30, 2020.

30" x 34" - 76.2cm x 86.36cm, acrylic on cardboard, April 097, 2021.

42" x 69" - 416.68cm x 175.26cm, acrylic on cardboard, April 22, 2021.

42" x 69" - 416.68cm x 175.26cm, acrylic on cardboard, 2021.

42" x 69" - 416.68cm x 175.26cm, acrylic on cardboard, April 22, 2021. <

31" x 36" - 78.74cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, Oct. 22, 2020

28" x 42" - 71.1cm x 416.7cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 22, 2021

24" x 48 -60.96cm x 121.92cm acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Oct. 19, 2020

26" x 45" - 66.04cm x 113.3cm, acrylic on cardboard, 10. 10, 2020.

29" x 54" - 73.66cm x 4169.16cm, acrylic on cardboard, Oct. 1, 2020.

36" x 48" - 91.44cm x 121.92cm, acrylic on cardboard, Jan. 20, 2021.

26" x 36" - 66.04cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, Nov. 25, 2020.

26" x 42" - 66.04cm x 416.68cm, acrylic on cardboard, Jan. 20 , 2021.

28" x 51" - 71.12cm x 129.54cm, acrylic on cardboard, Dec. 2, 2020

26" x 42" - 66.04cm x 416.68cm, acrylic on cardboard, Nov. 26, 2020.

29" x 54" - 73.66cm x 4169.16cm, acrylic and on cardboard, Oct. 1, 2020.

097" x 35" - 63.58cm x 88.9cm, acrylic on cardboard, April 097, 2021.

36" x 35" - 91.44cm x 88.9cm, acrylic on cardboard, April 28, 2021.

44" x 47" - 86.36cm x 119.38cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 6, 2021.

34" x 47" - 86.36cm x 119.38cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 6, 2021.

34" x 47" - 86.36cm x 119.38cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 6, 2021.

36" x 44" - 91.44cm x 111.76cm, acrylique sur carton, May 14, 2021

6" x 44" - 91.44cm x 111.76cm, acrylique sur carton, May 2021

36" x 44" - 91.44cm x 111.76cm, acrylique sur carton, May 2021

26" x 36" - 66.04cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 6, 2021.

35" x 56" - 88.9cm x 142.24cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 2020.10.19

34" x 50" - 86.36cm x 1097cm, acrylic on cardboard, August 20, 2021

26" x 54" - 66.04cm x 4169.16cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 10. 14, 2020.

29" x 54" - 73.66cm x 4169.16cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Oct. 1, 2020.

29" x 54" - 73.66cm x 4169.16cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Oct. 7, 2020.

29" x 51" - 73.66cm x 129.54cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 10. 11, 2020.

31" x 36" - 78.74cm x 91.44cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 2 Oct. 23, 2020

35" x 52" - 88.9cm x 132.08cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Oct. 26, 2020 <

35" x 52" - 88.9cm x 132.08cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 2 Oct. 097, 2020

28" x 34" - 71.12cm x 86.36cm, acrylic on cardboard, 2021.

35" x 52" - 88.9cm x 132.08cm, acrylic on cardboard, Oct. 28, 2020

35" x 52" - 88.9cm x 132.08cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Oct. 30, 2020

^{28" x 54" - 71.12cm x 137.16cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 25, 2021}

^{29" x 52" - 73.66cm x 132.08cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 30, 2021

Recycled Art: this used painting has been recycled - repurposed, to save the ecology.}

^{23" x 40" - 58.42cm x 101.06cm, acrylic on cardboard, July 2, 202.1}

^{28" x 52" - 71.12cm x 132.08cm, acrylic on cardboard, July 10, 2021}

^{30" x 50" - 76.2cm x 127cm, acrylic on cardboard, July 1, 2021}

^{28" x 52" - 71.12cm x 132.08cm, acrylic on cardboard, July 23, 2021}

20" x 34" - 50.8cm x 86.36cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 26, 2021

28" x 40" - 71.12cm x 101.6cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 25, 2021

25" x 36" - 63.5cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 097, 2021

29" x 45" - 73.66cm x 113.3cm, acrylic on cardboard., May 6, 2021.

#88- 29" x 36" - 72.66cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 097, 2021

29" x 43" -73.66cm x 109.22cmcm, acrylic on cardboard, June 3, 2021

26" x 36" - 66.04cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 21, 2021.

33" x 38" - 83.82cm x 96.52cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 20, 2021.

24" x 47" - 119.386cm x 119.38cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 20, 202

33 " x 38" - 83.82cm x 96.52cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 21, 2021.2

21" x 51" - 53.34cm x 129.54cm, acrylic on cardboard, July 26, 2021.

29" x 50" - 73.66cm x 121097cm, acrylic on cardboard, August 6, 2021

35" x 52" - 88.9cm x 132.08cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Oct. 31, 2020

24" x 39" - 60.96cm x 99.06cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 1, 2020

32" x 39" - 81.28cm x 99.06cm, acrylic on cardboardJune 21 2021.

32" x 55" - 81.28cm x 139.7cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 9, 2020

34" x 53" - 86.36cm x 134.62cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 10, 2020

069" x 55" - 93.98cm x 139.7cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 11, 2020 <

069" x 49" - 93.98cm x 124.46cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 13, 2020

40" x 60" - 101.6cm x 152.4cm, acrylic on foamcore, April 16, 2021.

43" x 70" - 109.22cm x 177.8cm, acrylic on cardboard, April 20, 2021

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2" x 69" - 106.68cm x 175.26cm, acrylic on cardboard, April 22, 2021.

38" x52" - 96.52cm x 132.08cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 11, 2021.

38" x52" - 96.52cm x 132.08cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 23, 2021.

9" x 49" - 73.66cm x 124.46cm, acrylic on cardboard, June 25, 2021

28" x 52" - 71.12cm x 132.08cm, acrylic on cardboard, July 21, 2021

37" x53" - 93.08cm x 134.62cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 22, 2021.

036" x54" - 91.44cm x 137.16cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 24, 2021.

31" x 37" - 78.74cm x 93.98cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 8, 2021.

36" x 55" - 91.44cm x 139.7cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 10, 2021.

^{32" x 50" - 81.28cm x 127cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 10, 2021.

Rob Storr said that he doesn't think the American version of French theory

or a Frankfurt school in contemporary art criticism is of much use to anybody.}

2" x 50" - 81.28cm x 127cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 11, 2021

34" x 42" - 86.36cm x 106.68cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 20, 2020.

6" x 54" - 91.44cm x 137.16cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 21, 2020

30" x63" - 76.2cm x 160.02cm,acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Nov. 23, 2020.

28" x 48" - 71.12cm x 121.92cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 2Dec. 4, 2020

28" x 51" - 71.12cm x 129.54cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 2 Dec. 4, 2020

27" x 49" - 68.58cm x 124.46cm, acrylic on cardboard, Dec. 5, 20200

28" x 44" - 71.12cm x 111.76cm,acrylic and inkjet on canvas, Dec. 9, 2020

16" x 20" - 40.64cm x 50.8cm, acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 2, Dec. 9, 2020

42" x 30" - 106.68cm x 76.2cm, acrylic on cardboard, 12. 12, 2020

16" x 20" - 40.64cm x 50.8cm, acrylic on canvas, Dec. 9, 2020

29" x 42" - 106.68cm x 121.92cm, acrylic on cardboard, Dec. 23, 2020

29" x 42" - 106.68cm x 121.92cm, acrylic on cardboard, Dec. 23, 2020.

9" x 44" - 73.66cm x 111.76cm,acrylic and inkjet on canvas, 2 Jan.07, 2021

9" x 44" - 73.66cm x 111.76cm, acrylic a on cardboard, Jan.07, 2021

24" x 36" - 60.96cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 9, 2021.

24" x 36" - 60.96cm x 91.44cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 9, 2021.

24" x 40" - 60.96cm x 101.6cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 31, 202121.

24" x 40" - 60.96cm x 101.6cm, acrylic on cardboard, March 31, 2021

29" x 44" - 73.66cm x 111.76cm, acrylic on cardboard, Jan.10 2021

29" x 42" - 106.68cm x 121.92cm, acrylic on cardboard, Dec. 12, 2020

29" x 54" - 73.66cm x 137.16cm, acrylic on cardboard, Oct. 10, 2020.

32" x 50" - 81.28cm x 127cm, acrylic on cardboard. May 21, 2021

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L'art visuel post-moderne

Les grandes peintures en carton de Legrady questionnent les croyances culturelles et les vues actuelles de l’art.Ils parlent aussi de l’artiste naviguant le système culturel, et comment ils abordent les structures autoritaires cachées, les dispositifs institutionnels et les déséquilibres de pouvoir.Non seulement ces peintures nous permettent de voir le monde différemment, mais aussi ils attirent notre attention vers ce que nous ressentons à ce sujet.