Art
Gertrude Stein on Matisse: “he used his distorted drawing as a dissonance is used in music or as vinegar or lemons are used in cooking or egg shells in coffee to clarify”. - LRB, Sep 25
To curate & create you must understand what blends, what doesn’t and how to use both to generate feeling that mirrors the juxtapositions inherent in daily reality. Art that holds conflicting things into a single truth, resonates.
“Nothing beats paint for stopping time cold”…”The weather isn’t looking good, time’s running out, a shrapnel of light falls whitely on the birch” - p. 124/125 Olivia Laing, Funny Weather
There is always something to reclaim to invoke positivity, emotion or something otherwise impactful. Those who have learnt to see, through art of some kind, can reclaim those shrapnels of light when darkness has dominated.
“If there were displeasing drips or blots or other errors, she’d destroy the canvas with a knife or box cutter, sometimes even hurling it off the mesa, before beginning again one or twice, or seven times, which is to say that every mark in an Agnes Martin painting is intentional, wholly meant.” -- her art is not to everyone’s taste “The grids in
... See moreArt is something that people believe must convey meaning. That the artist is trying to tell us something, an encoded message for them to unpick. Martin, renowned for being intentional with her marks, flaunts this idea by confronting people with art that conveys no message: it leaves them to give it meaning. This plays with the idea of art itself & interacts with notions of death of the author etc. in a really self-conscious and almost satirical way. These blank spaces are so intentionally devoid of the artist, they scream out her authorial presence.
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