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industrial landscapes and he said, �Because it gives me an armature to paint the way I want to paint�. So it�s not always about the image and I think that representational paintings do have elements of abstraction in them. |
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JW: I think what it comes down to is that there are less and less distinctions between figurative and abstract art. That used to be such a huge, huge issue in those early days of carving out this new thing called abstraction. After so many cycles since then it just doesn�t seem matter as much anymore. |
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SR: I don�t think it does either, Joe, and that�s an interesting point you just made because it�s only about 40 years since New York really became an important art capital in the world. I mean, from that perspective we are still in the early stages of this business. That is why I�ve found some of the Post-Modernist�s ethic a little tough to swallow because I thought they, like other people, were attributing a premature death to Modernism. I think this is still a Modernist discussion� |
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JW: I totally agree. |
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SR: �and I think Post-Modernism is going to end up as a sub-category of the Modernist discussion. |
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JW: Yes and there have been those claims where people have been trying to finish off painting all the way back to the turn of the last century. You know I think the attempt to do that can take you to some interesting places but its not to be taken as be-all, end-all. |
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Fran, would you like to take the last word? |
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FK: Sure, I think one of the other issues with painting is that so much commerce is now done on the Internet and painting simply does not fully translate through that medium. So that no matter what you put up you still have to see it, you have to touch it, you have to smell a work of art to really connect with it. I think not realizing that has made it difficult for painting to survive and probably contributed to the latest reports of its death. But now much more balance is coming into the market place where people are realizing that you have to experience the work �live� to really get it and more and more people are coming into the gallery looking for that experience. |
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JW: The physicality of the painting is the thing? |
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FK: Absolutely. |
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