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Three questions artists should probably never ask [72]

Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

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The Dangers of Abstract Painting

I think there are various ways to approach this and we can talk about those, but I think the central question is, you don't set out to make abstract paintings. You have to understand what you're doing with the paint and with the forms that you're creating with all the normal skills of painting and drawing. It's like if you take me up and you drop me free form in the middle of the stage of the Royal Opera House and say dance and I don't have any dance training or understanding of the music or rhythm or how to move my body - it's not going to look like some kind of weird chicken dance Going on Up There. Very different from Maggie Hamblings crashing

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