This is one of the most genius statements ever made about modern painting. It applies to writing as well.
Your questions concern groups of artists and their changing attitudes, which I take for granted and about which I’m not very interested. What interests me is that a few strong painters are at work, some of whom, incidentally, will remain “non-representative” while others will “return.” Others yet will not have to return, having never departed. “Out-moded” will mean as litle to them as it meant to Monet.I don’t mean to try to belittle your questions. The concerns they reflect produce information about the past that makes a position such as I take possible.
- Richard Diebenkorn, Statement: Contemporary Payinting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1961. Catalogue, p. 91.
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