And then there's the way we look at them today. I have seen some of
those 'unfinished' paintings, but they look just right to me.
Or there was the Degas woman drying herself (one of those) all in
brown tones, & the commentator (on the headphones, which were free so
I decided to try them; never again) who talked about how he had never
finished it. While I'm standing there gob-smacked, seeing that he had
seen that it was finished, there was nothing more to do....
I love those little sections unpainted in some of those Cezannes I've
seen, but then I'm looking at paint on a flat surface, not at what it
pretends to 'represent' (or, rather, not that alone...).
Doug
On 27-Mar-08, at 8:31 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> Cézanne had a real problem in finishing his paintings. As a result,
> his oeuvre is littered with unfinished paintings, abandoned, with
> areas of the canvas unpainted. He agonised endlessly over his non
> finito. Picasso, when formulating Cubism, decided to turn this on its
> head and made the *viewer* part of the process.
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