Marion Milner, a celebrated child psychoanalyst wrote of her own creative anxieties in her book On Not Being Able to Paint (Heineman, 1950, but still available). Fear is embedded in much of the writing on… Feel the fear and paint it
Another early scratching of an early human endeavouring to capture the external world has been found in Wales (2011). What was this person thinking, and why did he or she even do this? What is… The mind in another cave
Image by nattu via Flickr The inmates have escaped again and flooded the world with another wind egg. Called ‘altermodernism’, a term as ugly as its definition, we are now to be persuaded that a… What is ‘altermodernism’?
When an artists ‘does art’, what are they thinking? Are they merely in the moment or are they constructing some sort of story (narrative for the remaining post-modernists out there)? I continue to have a… Do artists think?
Image via Wikipedia I am still trying to make sense of Malevich. His book, commented on in an earlier posting, published in English in 1959, but dating much earlier, still feels fresh and insightful and… All that is real, isn’t, really
Malevich is almost rediscovered! His book,”Non-objective World” paints a surprising contemporary vision of art. I like the idea of prescribing a dose of Cubism to died in the wool Cezannista. I discovered a book by… Russian unorthodox: Malevich
The Rothko exhibit is a bit of a disappointment. Perhaps too many pieces, so people trying to figure out which painting will give them the spiritual experience they’re supposed to have. I found the forensic… Rothko @ Tate Modern