
Images

and it is something in her eyes in this photo
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” – Frida Kahlo

http://portlandartmuseum.org/view.image?Id=946
I remember that when i originally saw this work, before I knew anything much about Joseph Beuys…… I was almost floored my seeing in hang in the room, it inspired an awe which seemed to move down my body.
Beuys was always a myth maker, but one whose myth seemed to integrated and trasmutable.

I construct lines and color combinations on a flat surface, in order to express general beauty with the utmost awareness. Nature (or, that which I see) inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation (still just an external foundation!) of things… I believe it is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true

it seemed so stripped down

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