MR. CLOSE: I thought it was interesting advice for somebody who was now making paintings that took months and months just putting thinned down, watery black paint on canvases and slowly building this imagery in a sort of odd,
somewhat mechanical way.
I think it is quite possible that, zealous student of philosophy as he was, he might admit that the
way he argued his position was
somewhat overly indebted to the
mechanical thinking of his time and of the Reformers.