From Michel Houellebeq an appropriate prelude to Avery Singer
The Great Muses, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 220 x 196 cm. Courtesy of Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
“The question of beauty is secondary in painting: the great painters of the past were considered such when they had developed a world view that was both coherent and innovative, which means that they always painted in the same way, using the same methods and operating procedures to transform the objects of the world into pictorial ones, in a matter that was specific in them and had never been used before. Such was the classical vision of painting, the one to which Jed had been initiated during his high-school studies, and which was based on the concept of figuration – to which Jed, during a few years of his career, would return, and which, even more bizarrely, finally brought him fortune and fame.”
– The Map an the territory, 2010
January 15, 2014
