Jennifer Bartlett
Bartlett’s Rhapsody is a synthesis of nearly everything in art up until that moment, while anticipating many of the themes and ideas to come. It is my single favorite artwork of all time.
Tag: painting
John Cage
John Cage chose music, he said, because “The people who heard my music had better things to say about it than the people who looked at my paintings had to say about my paintings.”
The Rose
I spent two years sitting in a room just a few feet from this legendary, notorious, monumental painting that weighs over a ton, back when it was entombed behind a wall. It only took four decades for me to reconnect with it and see it for real, in person.