handmadeness
nounEtymology From handmade + -ness.
1
The quality of being handmade.
- Ladouceur is one of a group of Canadian artists, including former members of Winnipeg's Royal Art Lodge, whose primary medium is drawing and whose work is marked by "lowbrow" sensibilities, a Dadaistic fondness for absurdity, small-scale handmadeness, and imagery that seems to spring, surreal and unfettered, directly from the unconscious. Such work stands in pendulum-swing opposition to the large-scale, theory-driven, photo-based work of the previous generation.2018 July 6, Robin Laurence, “At the Burnaby Art Gallery, Jeff Ladouceur: Pearl Path takes cartoonish characters into surreal, amusing realms”, in The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, B.C.: Overstory Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2020:
- My first thought was of Paul Klee, that kind of love-at-first-sight allure, seductive hand-madeness and unfiltered accessibility, only bigger and stronger.2020 June 26, Roberta Smith, “The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023:
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- madeness