January 23, 2015 – The Off-Kilter Quilt

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Let’s start with some Mosaic pix!

The front, so far:

And the back, which is looking sort of busy …

Okay, stuff I’ve picked up around the interwebs this week:

Article on quilter Joe Cunningham in American Craft

http://craftcouncil.org/magazine/article/crazy-quilts

The article begins,

“When Joe Cunningham saw Robert Rauschenberg’s 1955 Bed at the Museum of Modern Art last year, the piece irked him. Rauschenberg had taken an old pillow, sheet, and log cabin quilt, affixed them to wood as if they were a canvas, and splashed paint on them. The accompanying label explained that Rauschenberg was combining abstract painting with everyday found objects. “The quilt being treated as just a humble domestic object bothered me,” Cunningham recalls. “The quilt is a work of art. It burns my ass that something useful can’t be ‘art.’”

In response, Cunningham began cutting up paintings and sewing them into a quilt.”

You can see a video about Robert Rauschenberg’s sculpture, “Bed” here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvpp2lAD9iY

Also from American Craft, an interview with Denyse Schmidt:

http://craftcouncil.org/magazine/article/craft-community

More on Joe Cunningham–here is a recent and very interesting post from his blog worth pondering:

http://joethequiltercunningham.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-wave.html#comment-form

Interesting article on why we love beautiful things:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/opinion/sunday/why-we-love-beautiful-things.html

The Gee’s Bend documentary:

http://vimeo.com/50454661

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