Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 19 August, 2020, oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm
The thing about Post-Modernist painting, if I can ask such a thing, is that one has to come up with something better than what Nature has already offered up as a visual language.
In other words did Abstract Expressionism, which directly proceeded Post-Modernism, give us a new way of expressing ourselves? As painters, did it offer a pathway which transcended our desperate need for self-expression?
Has our pursuit to liberate ourselves, in this post-industrial age limited our goals to that prized commodity of mere self-expression? Don't get me wrong, I love self-expression but not if if it lacks a visual language enabling communication.
Haven't we sold ourselves short in this quest for truth?
These are questions I eat for dinner most nights.
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