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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Mondrian and Monet flowers in Paris and Notre Dame as Rhizome

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My book on Drawing and Painting languishes in virtuality, somewhere on the servers at KDP, although occasionally on my dashbo...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

In rereading this essay I was struck by the author's reference to "willed vulgarity".I think what she is refering to was my conscious decision to accept our basic human condition of irrationality and raw will.It is something picked up stylistically from the late Guston.We must start from "the cruel chaotic base" before we can pretend to have any"raffinement".

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I am an artist and art critic whose ideas have shaped the discussion of postmodern art as well as the ideas behind Modernism.In particular some people think I coined Zombie Formalism
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