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Sunday, March 6, 2016

# 711 Reconstructed Painting 1974

I did quite a few variations on these. I still like them because of what isn't in them. I noticed in school that every painter leaves a little of their subconscious in their figurative work. This isn't a bad thing of course but it isn't intentional either. Every portrait has some of the artist's own face in it. I've seen very few portraits where this isn't true. I've seen very few paintings of any kind where it isn't true.

# 710 Reconstructed Painting 1974

The retinal paintings of Josef Albers had a huge attraction for me. I thought that they contained everything that a painting needed. The problem was that they were so formulaic. That didn't keep them from being wonderful but it did go against my ideas about intuition and art.

Saturday, March 5, 2016

# 709 Reconstructed Print no.2 1974

This is early piece from 1974. At the time I was looking at a lot of work by Piet Mondrian and Joseph Albers. I thought Mondrian was on to something but he became rather baroque in his approach. Albers' distillations were very attractive because I felt that less was more. This truth was an artistic problem for me for many years.