Every time I read this thread I think of the New York abstract painter Ad Reinhardt and his "twelve rules for a new academy." Reinhardt's most well-known works were intensely austere minimialist paintings, often employing only variations of one color. His last paintings (from the '60's) were done entirely in black and are some of the most subtle works you are likely to encounter. He does not embrace Herbert's view of accidents.
His "Twelve Technical Rules" (as edited by me) are, of course meant to apply to fine art, but it's interesting to think of them in the context of this thread as technical guidelines used to structure the creation of any art :
1. No texture. Texture is naturalistic or mechancial and is a vulgar quality.
2. No brushwork or calligraphy. Handwriting, hand-working and hand-jerking are personal and in poor taste.
3. No sketching or drawing. Everything, where to begin and where to end, should be worked out in the
4. No forms. "The finest has no shape." NO figure or fore or background. No volume or mass, no cylinder, sphere or cone, or cube or boogie-woogie. NO push or pull. "No shape or substance."
5. No design. "Design is everywhere."
6. No colors. "Color blinds." COlors are an aspect fo appearance and so only of the surface. Colors are barbaric, unstable, suggest life, "cannot be completely controlled," and "should be concealed."
7. No light. No bright or direct light in or over the paintign. Dim, late afternoon light, absorbent twilight is best outside.
8. No space. Space should be empty, should not project and should not be flat. "The painting should be behind the picture frame."
9. No time. "Clock-time or man's time is inconsequential." Ther is no ancient or modern, no past or future in art. "A work of art is always present." The present is the future of the past, not the past of the future. "Now and long ago are one."
10. No size or scale. Breadth and depth of thought and feeling in art have no relation to physical size.
11. No movement. "Everything else is on the move. Art should be still."
12. No object, no subject, no matter. No symbols, images, or signs. Neither pleasure nor paint. no mindless working or mindless non-working. No chess-playing.
"The fine artist should have a fine mind, "free of all passion, ill-will and delusion." The fine artist need not sit cross-legged."
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