Interesting interview with Turps Banana professor in London Dan Coombs: The problem in painting is not one of quality, it is one of realness. Realness is quality, and this applies as much to abstract art as figurative art. Art isn’t grounded in taste as Greenberg thought; it is grounded in its reaching for the real. Painting is a highly artificial construct that lags far behind reality. At the Royal College, I was taken with the notion of Lacan that the real is not a given, but something held in tension by the symbolic and the imaginary. Realness in painting does not equal realism, and often realist paintings are the least real of all painting! Realness is something that has to be sought out and struggled towards, and without it painting becomes decorative or illustrational. studiointernational/index.php/dan-coombs-interview-jerwood-encounters-suspicion
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:29:25 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015