Glass Art.

I like it.

from Corning Glass Museum in New York.

Susan Derges.

Having trained in painting Susan Derges expressed an early interest in abstraction because "it offered the promise of being able to speak of the invisible rather than to record the visible".

Artists' manifestos...

On the BBC News website there was an old article called 'Back to the Futurists' and it's about artists' manifestos throughout history. This is an example of one that a reader had written himself:

A. I like apples.

B. I shall therefore retrieve some from the grocery store.

C. Posessing apples will make me happy.

1. I oppose the limitation of access to apples.

2. I oppose paying for apples.

3. I oppose the efforts by the Man to prevent me from having apples and will endeavor in the face of tyranny to posess them by whatever means neccessary.

:D

Ad Reinhardt

Andy Goldsworthy.

His piece in the Watercolour exhibition at Tate Britain was one of the few pieces that interested me at all in a show that was heavy on maps and scientific work and far too light on the contemporary practice of watercolour, or which I'm sure there is plenty (one Anish Kapoor piece and a few others doesn't really count).

In his book 'Time', Goldsworthy shows work where he uses nature in a direct and hands on way. The example I have used below, the placing of snowballs that have natural dye from nearby trees on paper and allowing them time to melt leaving behind a mark that is unique and unrepeatable, demonstrates an accute sense of time passing that I like and a respect toward the power and enormity of nature. It shows the power not only of nature, but of our environment as a whole - the element of chance and a greater force that is beyond human action.

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