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.
Critique | ‘Fix Your Pony!’
First published in the VAN (Visual Artist's News Sheet) 10 May 2023. ‘Fix Your Pony!’ is the fifth iteration of the Naughton Gallery’s ongoing sports exhibition series, featuring works that, according to the gallery literature, tackle “race, gender, politics,...
