Representational/Abstract
Always my subject was music Always my road led to abstraction, but I could not do It until I found my form. I said In effect, “I will come to abstract painting by way of invention and discovery.” That’s what it’s like to be a painter it’s always the first day of creation when in a painting you say, “Let there be light,” and there is light
When painting is imitative, of photographs or surfaces…In trying to make something look like something else, a lot of painting is like wax grapes – cosmetically improved but without substance or sustenance. I am painting in a tradition 100 years old, living in the age of Photoshop… To each their own!
My conclusion from study and practice is that all representational art will become degenerate without a sound theoretical abstract foundation
This Giotto knew, Cezanne knew, the primitives have known, the Orientals knew, the Greeks knew, and the prehistorlcs knew This is the greatness of children’s art before they become socialized, regimented and institutionalized What Is the source of this study? Nature! These paintings came as much from the hedgerows of County Clare as much as they came from the music.
The College Groves: See those three blue dots? That’s a D triplet See the three green dots? That’s a G triplet A lot of FAF triplets at the top, part four of the tune
