When a person paints from the gut there is no such thing as style, we're not impressionists or expressionists or cartoonists or illustrators or fauvists or cubists or pubists, we just go! We study technique for years so we can forget it in the creative act. When we are children we learn the alphabet, form words, structure grammatically correct sentences, all of which we forget in adulthood when we are compelled to express a thought. Art is the original pictorial alphabet, colours are words, paint is grammar, composition the anecdote.
Monday, May 31, 2010
D4. Breakfast
When a person paints from the gut there is no such thing as style, we're not impressionists or expressionists or cartoonists or illustrators or fauvists or cubists or pubists, we just go! We study technique for years so we can forget it in the creative act. When we are children we learn the alphabet, form words, structure grammatically correct sentences, all of which we forget in adulthood when we are compelled to express a thought. Art is the original pictorial alphabet, colours are words, paint is grammar, composition the anecdote.
