There is a
kind of «hermeneutics
of farming»
similar to John Howard Yoder's «hermeneutics
of peoplehood» in which one patiently and humbly listens to the sense
of the congregation and the Bible and the
Spirit in a particular context.
Frank O'Hara, the critic and poet who collaborated with Bluhm, wrote in 1962, «Bluhm is the only artist working in the idiom
of abstract - expressionism who has a
spirit similar to that
of Pollock, which is to say that he is out — beyond beauty, beyond composition, beyond the old - fashioned
kind of pictorial ambition.»