[Frameworks] Robert Breer 1926-2011

[Yoel Meranda]

I just want to thank George Griffin for his wonderful post on Breer...


Yoel




On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:06 PM, George Griffin <gg at geogrif.com> wrote:

> Breer's genius lay in, among other things, his casual approach to craft. He
> didn't work at; he played animation. As soon as I saw his paintings from the
> Paris years — so hard-edged, ordered, Olympian — I could see how film, as a
> vehicle of synthetic performance, pushed him off the cliff. He learned to
> fly by the seat of his pants, re-inventing our art with every new,
> effortless stroke. Lucky for us. Through him we got Arp's random
> discontinuities, Klee's indexical card miniature scale, Cage's not so silent
> silence, and all that modernist wit, irony, nonchalance. His work was always
> flavored by jolts of sly fun. It spilled beyond media into concrete,
> tangible objects: parodies of machines, propelled by the viewer's hand, or
> set in motion as snail-paced automata.
>
> Breer was the prolific, generous form-giver: movement was his medium.
>
> I will miss him.
>
> GG
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