Richard Whittaker on mon 27 jan 03
Agnes Martin said that when she painted something she liked, she turned the
painting against the wall and didn't look at it for two weeks. If she still
liked it in two weeks, she thought, maybe she had something.
The question you raise is a deep one, it seems to me. I once loved the
movie that now does nothing for me at all, etc. It seems there are a lot of
different people in here and they don't all seem to know each other.
It's a mysterious thing when I make something that remains alive for me
over time. How did it happen, and why does it continue to have life? A
friend one said that art is "news" that "remains news." An interesting way
of putting it.
Seems to me such questions are worth holding on to.
Richard Whittaker
Berkeley
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Pink Boy on mon 27 jan 03
Whittaker sez,
> Agnes Martin said that when she painted something
> she liked, she turned the painting against the wall
> and didn't look at it for two weeks. If she still
> liked it in two weeks, she thought, maybe she had
> something.
When I'm working on my industrial art (harph!) I get
wrapped up in the problems, the issues, and the
half assed things I did.
Takes me month usualy to get enough distance from
the process where I can like something for what it
is, rather than what I wanted it to be.
The reason other people will like stuff the artist
doesn't, is that they don't have the artists vision
to compare it to.
Mr Foo
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