shoot it with a pistol

I haven’t forgotten that I have a blog here, just been in hibernation.

Larry Poons had a show at Danese Gallery that I managed to trek down to in the cold, to bask in the light of the colors. I read a good interview with Poons by Robert Ayers on his blog, A Sky Filled with Shooting Stars,

Paintings are mistakes. You put a mark on a canvas, and it’s a mistake. Of course it’s a mistake, otherwise it would be wonderful, because it would be finished. But it’s not. After maybe 50 or 60,000 mistakes, you give up. Like Leonardo said, “Works of art aren’t finished, they’re abandoned.” That’s absolutely true, art is never finished. People say, “Oh, that’s a nice romantic thing to say.” But it’s not romantic. It’s like saying that physics can be finished. Real art is never finished. With applied art at least you can say, “OK. You’ve learnt this lesson.” Illustration doesn’t even get into this no-man’s land. But that’s the only place that art lives, if it’s any good. {Read More…}

I don’t necessarily agree with Poons, but he always gives me something to think about and his delivery is definitely entertaining.