Thinking about:
• Audience
• Philip Taaffe.
The quote above reads:
Taaffe recognizes that his art is caught in the tension between the public and the private, the accessible and the inaccessible. As he tells Brakhage:
‘I often find myself poised between two poles of thought. The one, as Matisse said, is to make a painting as a luxuriant armchair. And then on the other hand you have Georges Rouault saying, I don’t care if anybody ever sees what I do, I m creating purely as a form of prayer, a private visionary meditation, and that is all.’
Source: ‘Philip Taaffe’ by John Yau.
Bedrooms & Bars – Ed Reynolds. Exhibition Review.
“For me, it’s really the joy of looking out into the world and getting this positive energy… It’s opening up our vision, and how we look.” – David Hockney ‘He has tasted good and evil in your bedrooms and your bars…’. So sings the late Kris Kristofferson on his track...
