During the early 1940s, he noted, he was torn «between the needs of the society and the needs of war on one hand, and on... what I felt were
the aesthetic needs of painting.»
Not exact matches
I hope the
need to satisfy a political will and agenda will modify to satisfy a real appetite for great works
of painting and sculpture that are
aesthetic and sound.
There's seemingly no other way to tell it:
painting was there from the movement's get - go, and its immediacy and materiality gave painters like Miró, Masson, Picasso and Picabia what they
needed to make art that was, per Andre Breton in the movement's manifesto, «dictated by thought, in the absence
of... reason, exempt from any
aesthetic or moral concern.»
Amy Sillman Two things: one, I was thinking about diagrams as a way to understand the way
painting works; and two, I realized that in Berlin I
needed a way to stage my
paintings very specifically, to avoid the total cliché reading
of highly
aesthetic Ab Ex-derived things.
It's in decent shape, but
needs a lot
of aesthetic work (every room
needs to be
painted, we have bright blue kitchen countertops, etc).