The Abundance Idris Murphy
rt that is raw is rarely art that is simple. When Matisse sculpted the void between an eye and a mouth with a single arc, it was conscious. When Tapies caked his canvas like archaic mud pies, he deliberately thrust both hands into effete high Modernism and gave it a good shake. Philip Guston used bloodied lines to cleave away from the decadence of abstract art that had become corporate and inert. His Klansmen paintings looked like graffiti but they were not arbitrary or obscene. The queasy pink he used looked like the skin of a
