Picked up Skinny Legs And All by Tom Robbins from a charity shop today. Having read the Prelude I flicked through, stopping at this page when the word 'art' caught my eye. '...it's more like play than work' certainly rings true for me and, I would guess, all who 'make art because they have to make it'.
Presented here the page's final line looks like a punchline, could be a punchline if you're dismissive of landscapes and all that tiresome, representational stuff. But Ellen Cherry, the artist, responds on the next page: 'Right, but they don't look like the landscapes that nature provides, and hopefully they don't look like landscapes that any other painter has ever provided.'
In some way, perhaps all imaginative art is a 'landscape', or at least, a representation of the inner landscape envisaged as the picture begins and continues to evolve.
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| B-Movie, RTomens, 2016 |
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