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SEEKING THE NATURE OF BLUENESS
i begin to see drawbacks. as you point out, are clarity and aridity inextricably linked?
consider victor vasarely (a painting of his attached - interestingly from the tehran museum of contemporary art).
now old vic could knock up a good waterscape or scene of rural life as easy as kiss my hand.
but then he started dangerously artistic thoughts such as the nature of "form" and the need for clarity of "colour".
the attached is one of his earlier, more colourful, formful pieces. later he painted a white square on a white canvas. he found his clear blue line. it was a white square.
i am reminded of adrian mitchell's critic who had flat white plates in his flat white flat.
john cale, i think recorded 15 minutes of silence as a piece of music
he has won a copyright case against a composer who used 1 minute of his silence without paying royalties.
and then I think of those pre-Raphaelites with their angelic commoners picked out in purple and turquoise.
pigments powering politics?
oh to hell with it....sometimes we have to let tom wolfe's star streamer rockets light up the sky.
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