Blog tagged as development

There is a strange moment in the history of painting when one begins to wonder whether painting has already passed through too many lives. It has been academic, romantic, impressionist, expressionist, abstract, conceptual, deconstructed, revived and repeatedly declared dead.

What makes an artist? Not the ability to copy what is seen, but the ability to transform observation into something of one’s own. These ten theses reflect on artistic development, memory, imagination, technique, imitation, and the freedom to move beyond what is visible.