Ground Zero
Museums And Galleries News WritingPublished June 22, 2011 at 8:19 pm 1 Comment
If I know how to paint, this is where I learned it. It was on this very spot when I was in the ninth grade, that I learned how to paint. At least I saw how to paint and I have spent the last many years learning it. I am still so early in my knowledge and development. I see this work and it reminds me that I’ve always wanted to live long enough to mature as a human being. There is no rush. Life will take you where you are going. The Chess Players in the middle is for me perhaps the perfect painting. As Gogol’s, The Overcoat may be the perfect story. Find those people who make no disguises for life, who present it without sentiment or cleverness. Art is not cleverness, language is not even for cleverness. There is the Tao, there is the French Man Cezanne, The Russian Gogol, The Minnesotan Dylan… etc the list is long and short.
“I’ve always wanted to live long enough to mature as a human being” – good line, Simon. Maybe by now you’ve looked at my website and see that I’m a yoga teacher as well as a painter. I might quote you on that line in a class someday. I’ll let everyone know from whence it came. Bravo again on your work.
J-M