Willem de Kooning made common sense of that proposition. He played formal dynamics of painting since the Renaissance—refreshed rather than superseded by modern innovations—to a heartbeat of enjoyed and suffered, lived existence. His art keeps happening. He remains the ethical beau ideal of all artists, in any form, who aren’t content to settle into cushioned grooves of rote style or the coddling embrace of temporarily bright ideas.
A Picasso: Portrait of Dora Mar
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