Monday, December 21, 2009

Take Your Vitamins, Artists



If you haven't been appreciated yet, maybe you just haven't been alive long enough. The New York Times has an article on 94-year-old Carmen Herrera (with slideshow), who didn't sell a painting until she was 89 despite the fact that she's been creating them for six decades. So take care of yourselves, but "don’t be abstemious!" as Herrera says... The other entertaining part of the article is a brief discussion of what we assume is the work pictured above:
When pressed about what looks to some like a sensual female shape in the painting, she said: “Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white was shrieking for the green, and the little triangle created a force field. People see very sexy things — dirty minds! — but to me sex is sex, and triangles are triangles.”
Hmm...

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