How can line be at once so brief yet so provocative. Is the time taken to execute an issue? Does it matter that 22 seconds is all it took? So few understand that every drawing, every painting is the conclusion of a lifetime of study, the momentary summary of decades of obsession and self-criticism. Every work is in fact the artist's last stand, every time. Death itself can occur in a moment yet that does not invalidate the years we lived, rather it frames and extols them.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
D7. Last stand in a 22 second line.
How can line be at once so brief yet so provocative. Is the time taken to execute an issue? Does it matter that 22 seconds is all it took? So few understand that every drawing, every painting is the conclusion of a lifetime of study, the momentary summary of decades of obsession and self-criticism. Every work is in fact the artist's last stand, every time. Death itself can occur in a moment yet that does not invalidate the years we lived, rather it frames and extols them.
