Sometimes a Minus Plato post needs to leave all discussion/explanation/analysis in the background and we should simply just admire what contemporary artists are capable of. Look, see. Richard Hawkins, Untitled (Slash/Twombly) (detail), 1992 Cy Twombly, Fifty Days at Iliam: Shades of Achilles, Patroclus, and Hector, 1978
It is quite easy to show that abstract art like every other cultural phenomenon reflects the social and other circumstances of the age in which its creators live… …realistic space cracks and splinters into flat planes which come forward, parallel to the plane surface… Clement Greenberg ‘Towards a Newer Laocoon’ (1940) It is all well […]