Painting, especially abstract painting, is an inescapable metaphor for the human body. A canvas is a skin stretched taut over a skeleton of stretcher bars. Paint applied to the surface records humanity's condition at any given period in time.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Review: MOCA's 'Destroy the Picture' boldly steps into the void
The art of creative destruction is on compelling view in 'Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962,' MOCA's survey of post-World War II abstract painting.
Painting, especially abstract painting, is an inescapable metaphor for the human body. A canvas is a skin stretched taut over a skeleton of stretcher bars. Paint applied to the surface records humanity's condition at any given period in time.
Painting, especially abstract painting, is an inescapable metaphor for the human body. A canvas is a skin stretched taut over a skeleton of stretcher bars. Paint applied to the surface records humanity's condition at any given period in time.
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