Art making , mark making week.
My friend and coworker, Bill St George called me the other day to tell me about an article
in the December issue of Vanity Fair called "Who is the worlds greatest living artist?".
Among those ambitious and talented people was Richard Serra.
The above picture of Serra making one of his signature black oil stick drawings answered a question that has long puzzled me: how did he do it?...get that impasto, thick, incredibly rich, black circle without a sense of filling in...without the gesture of the hand.
The Vanity Fair photo shows how:
he cut a semi-circular wooden shape with a handle attached to ease picking it up and moving it, and ground, mashed, squashed the oil stick into the paper with his feet with the wooden semi circle defining and controlling the edge. The photo also shows some of these finished drawings on the wall behind the smiling, dancing artist.
Great postmodern art requires extreme originality.
let's see what we can come up with in our own art next week.
I mean in terms of approach/process.
See you next week. John.
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