Daily Studio Photograph. June 10, 2012.

June 10, 2012.

What is your favourite type of art book? Do you enjoy reading artist biographies, exhibition catalogs, critical theory, or something else? What would you recommend?

Scully Nuggets

I love this image of Scully.

Slow Muse

Two from Sean Scully:

The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It’s not just an image; it’s an image with a body, and that body has to contain its spirit. A painting, really, is made by its reason for being there. What’s behind it decides everything. It’s not just a question of attrractiveness or correctness; it can’t be fixed afterwards or by additions. How it starts will define how it ends. So it’s the weight of the intention that defines everything.

My paintings talk of relationships. How bodies come together. How they touch. How they separate. How they live together, in harmony and disharmony. The character of bodies changes constantly through my work. According to color. The opacity and transparency of how the surface is made. This gives it its character and its nature. Its edge defines its relationship to its…

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Long Series #1137.

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