Expanding painting beyond the obvious.Painting has been around for 50,000 years.
Since hunter gathers began expressing themselves with pigment and animal fat on the walls of European caves, the human race has been involved in painterly activity.
The two illustration above are interesting example of recent avant-garde painting. Cy Twombly's curtain at the Vienna Opera House (thanks Denise) and katharina Grosse's painterly installation at Mass MOCA. In my own work, i have begun a simple and direct oil painting series that belies this concept, but for years i've struggled with the idea of break-through painting and feel the need to simplify and allow myself to just paint for awhile. i think that all contemporary painters should try and move their art toward some plastic ineffable. see you next week, john.
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