Not exact matches
«Our culture often
paints empathy as weakness,» Jack said, «Greene's model plays into that view, suggesting that those who don't
like utilitarian thinking are intellectually
weak and ruled by primitive passions.
It is good, for instance, to see Franz Kline's snow - and - thunder
paintings, with their fierce black brushmarks; except that the open view to Motherwell makes Kline look
like a
weak disciple (which he wasn't).
The Hirst works, with titles
like Happiness (1993 - 1994), are abstract depictions of mood - enhancing drugs, but they are conceptually
weak and visually repellent compared to Spot
Paintings and Pill Cabinets.
His drip style did not inspire imitators precisely because it was so strikingly unique; whereas the gestural painters of the fifties could try out the autographic brushwork of Willem de Kooning or Franz Kline, or Philip Guston without necessarily producing a baldly derivative work, no one could
paint a drip composition that did not look
like a
weak Pollock.
It goes on
like satin and hides all imperfections, and if your
painting skills are «
weak»
like mine, it looks professional.