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People need beauty,
there's a hunger for it, amid the clamor of visual imagery that surrounds us.
And so, we seek out zones of silence, and contemplation,
arenas, for free thought, and unregimented feeling.
My home is in Springs, east hampton, long island.
I was born in Cody, Wyoming 39 years ago
The fifties saw the emergence of an avant guarde scene
for the first time in, this country.
New York I spent two years at the art students league with Tom Venton.
This scene replaced academic art.
As a kind a category in which you place yourself
He was a strong personality to react against
This was in 1929.
I don't work from drawings or colour sketches.
My painting is direct.
I usually paint on the floor
I enjoy working on a large canvas.
I feel more at home, more at ease in a big area.
Having the canvas on the floor, I feel nearer.
More apart of the painting.
To some extent making fun
Ah, as it earnestly or seriously carried out.
I also use sand, broken glass
Pebbles, string, nails or other foreign matter.
This way I can walk around it
work from all four sides and be in the painting.
Similar to the indian sand painters of the west.
I like to use a dripping, fluid paint.
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I'm about.
I can, control the flow of the paint, there is no accident.
Just as there is no beginning and no end.
A method of painting is the natural growth out of a need.
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
Technique is just means arriving at a statement.
Some people think that my work is just about money.
Certain aspects of my work are about money.
Because my work also talks about desire
Sometimes I lose a painting.
But i have no fear of changes, of destroying the image.
because a painting has a life of its own I try to let it live.
Painting often has to do with time with depicting
a place where time no longer applies. It represents a search for harmony and
grace.
the place of timelessness and to use the word
which dropped out of fashion sometime back.
Of Beauty