By Charles A. Riley II
This suite of short and vigorous essays, dependent mostly on interviews and studio visits, explores what Charles A. Riley II calls 'one of the main important (and misunderstood) inventive forces in smooth artwork, structure, tune, dance, literature, and philosophy: the pursuit of perfection.' Riley examines many modern figures who exemplify the ascetic impulse of their paintings and lifestyles. those artists tested throughout the lens of asceticism, function focal issues in Riley's attention of cultural concerns resembling the position of spirituality in modern artwork, the interplay of Western and Asian traditions, and the connection among the artists' lives and paintings.
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The tiny figure stands at the bottom of a narrow blizzard, his back to us and his right side partially dissolved in the atmosphere of dancing white marks into which he seems ready to disappear. In quick, arching strokes that suddenly accumulate in a kind of luminescent network, giving the impression that they are descending, Tobey lets loose an inner light that is remarkable. The same uncanny effect is seen in the entirely abstract gouache on paper, Crystallization (1944) which, as its title connotes, has all the fragility of ice forming.
Like most conservatorytrained soloists in our time, the young woman was skittish as a thoroughbred, ready to barrel through the piece as fast and as dramatically as possible, and Ax was trying to provoke her to think structurally by setting up her dramatic climaxes from an identified moment of quiet. More than just a performer's little trick, the ability to zone in on an inner silence is absolutely fundamental to grasping the Stations. Newman was able to locate a still point not once but many times, and the result is one of the great ascetic experiencestouching on many of the elements we have isolated, including rhythm, solitude, anachronism, austerity, and painin contemporary painting.
P. 164) Embedded in the passage is a quick reference to "a ladder to escape the disgust of life," drawing our attention to a central motif in all of Miró's work. " His escapes to Montroig or Barcelona were deliberate attempts to air himself out after too much continuous time in the stuffy art world of Paris. It is important to register the shifts from fullness to emptiness in his compositions. Some assume that the great wall-size blue or red fields of color painted at the end of his life were the culmination of a lifelong process of gradual emptying out, but in fact the emptying and refilling with complexity played off one another more as a dialectic in parallel Page 41 with his escapes from the city.