al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #671
first posted in facebook january 11, 2019
morris louis -- "beta gamma" (1960)
"... the more i paint the more i’m aware of a difference in my approach and others. am distrustful of over-simplifications but nonetheless think that there is nothing very new in any period of art: what is true is that it is only something new for the painter & that this thin edge is what matters" ... morris louis
"louis destroyed many of his paintings between 1955 and 1957. he resumed work on the 'veils' in 1958–59. these were followed by 'florals and columns' (1960), 'alephs' (1960)[5], 'unfurleds' (1960–61)—in which rivulets of more opaque, intense color flow from both sides of large white fields of raw canvas—and finally the 'stripe' paintings (1961–62). between summer 1960 and january/february 1961, he created about 150 'unfurleds', generally on mural-size canvases" ... wikipedia
"it is not surprising that louis considered the 'unfurleds' his greatest achievement. during the preceding decade he had struggled repeatedly to strike a balance between forceful composition, vibrant color, and gestural drawing. he failed because these elements had seemed to oppose one another; each time he gave full rein to one, it resulted in the suppression of the other. but the audacious simplicity of the 'unfurleds’' composition supported equally color intensity and gestural drawing" ... diane upright
"he paints his colors everywhere he paints the air he's like a rainbow painting colors in the air or everywhere he comes in colors" ... al janik
