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Rated by Hapax on Oct 14 2008, 2:36pm
george tooker defacing . . . Tooker was clear from the beginning that he had no interest in minimalist art, of the sort that abstraction dictates. Very much to the contrary, he was instead bent on creating "maximalist" art. He has said that "in one kind of painting I'm trying to say 'this is what we are forced to suffer in life,' while in other paintings I say 'this is what we should be.'" Lincoln Kirstein, an advocate of Tooker's art from early on, has written with rare insight that Tooker's approach "assumes the durable products of this art are expressions of ideas rather than a craft or the demonstrations of self-love or self-pity. It accepts painting as a triumph of the orderly, the intelligent, and the achieved, rather than as a victim of the decorative, the fragmentary, or the improvised. It assumes the human mind is obligated toward synthesis, and that, at its most interesting, establishes order rather than disorder, from infinities of observable phenomena. . . .These pictures are essential rather than anecdotal. They attempt to define qualities and conditions independently of their designers' appetites. . . . Their reference moves outward toward a universal legibility rather than inward toward a limited correspondence.". . . source for images
