A B O U T T H I S A R T • J A N 2 0 1 1
My interest in primitive art began about 1965.
I decided that art school was not for me: in art school I would not have been able to continue my preoccupation with this kind of art, which turned out to be my only preference. But I remember Cezanne with a warm glow, especially his still life paintings. He was not a naive painter, but the shallow depth of space he worked in is very satisfying to someone who likes lines and flatness. One day about a year after I began painting in the early 1960s I saw an art print from Eastern Europe in a magazine. It was a rooster on a window sill, painted in a simple way. It was a refreshing scene and I was fascinated. and it apparently was what I had been looking for. It was a kind of permission to go my own way. My feeling about art and beginning a new painting is always that at this moment, there are endless possibilities. |
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