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JOHN SEERY
(Below) One paints, steps back, looks and searches as if the jigsaw puzzle together.
Lenny 1973 watching oneself. I feel that painting decisions Matisse's paintings are diagrams for the
Acrylic on canvas, 41 dynamics of colour. The hue, intensity and
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Photo: Ann Freedman are made on a higher level than the intellectual.
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Only by following oneself (more of an amount of colour and placement are so
intuitive process), understanding what you have truthfully felt.
done when you have done it, and then relating Through the knowledge of tradition we learn
this knowledge to what you already have. to explore and find the individual in ourselves.
Creation is a searching within oneself that David Smith: 'It comes closer to who I am.'
should not be confused by critics, curators, `The work is my identity.'
politics.
What has always interested me in a work of ar
was when I could see the artist thinking, putting
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