African Modernism in The Superstroke Art Movement

Robert Nava said that his record time in finishing a painting is 27 seconds. Conrad Bo Superblur gives his opinion. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/robert-nava-spring-intelligence-2021-1957022 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/robert-nava-spring-intelligence-2021-1957022 The above article on the Art Net website was a very interesting read for me. The article is very well written and interesting.  Below are two excerpts from that article. In July, Nava made his auction debut at Phillips, where  The Tunnel  (2019), a painting of a monster’s blood-red eyes, was estimated to fetch $40,000 to  $60,000. Instead, it sold for $162,500. In the months that followed, his depiction of a transforming Power Ranger generated $124,195. A loose rendering of an angel sold for just over $110,000. A painting of a kid riding a giant snake brought $100,000. He was talking about what’s become a Robert Nava mythos: the speed at which he works. His record, he said, is one painting in 27 se...

 I was working at my gallery in Maboneng Johannesburg, and on Sundays maybe a 100 people walk up the stairs to look at the paintings. I sat right at the end of this 2nd story space and listened to what everybody have to say about the art, and some of them did not know I was the artist. This endeavor has taught me a lot about art in general and also more specifically my art.  "That looks a lot like a Miro", "That looks like the work of Basquiat", "This painting looks exactly like a Picasso" etc etc "The art in this gallery is pretty bad", "The stuff here is vey terrible", "I like that Pointillist style painting", "The art is ok but not nearly as good as that of William Kentridge downstairs", "This art looks like the stuff I was doing when I was only beginning" and so on and so on. Instead of discouraging me I actually found it pretty funny and insightful. It also forced me to come up with the tern "Fica...