Teachout on Warhol

I have to point you in the direction of this WSJ article by Terry Teachout. I knew there was something good about this Teachout fellow, in spite of his New York perspective on the arts. With the exception of LA, the West Coast was immune from the Warhol style of Pop "Art". Some of our realists were stupidly cast into that category by New York critics who did not know any better (I am thinking primarily of the brilliant painter (and fellow Sacramentan) Wayne Thiebaud). The ones, like Mel Ramos, who touched on the "irony" of Pop Art tended towards actual substance in their work.

So, when I saw that a New York critic was writing about Warhol, I thought, oh dear, more drivel. Then I read the piece. Brilliant.

I am not going to write more on Warhol, since I am not in the mood to think about his wretchedly silly oevre right now. If, on the other hand, you want to discuss Diebenkorn...