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...young artist searching not for self but for non-self. As Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art, points out "the grail he (Kelly) sought was his own effacement." During the period of 1948-1955, Kelly sought to find a way not to compose, to relinquish personal agency over his work. The exhibit, arranged chronologically, depicts three methods: the direct copy or transfer system, automatic drawings, and grid work established by chance...
...ever you were under the opinion that it is Kelly's insufficient drawing skills that lead to his love for minimalism, then his automatic drawings should destroy and completely bury that notion. Automatic drawing is a technique in which the artist attempts to relinquish control over his hand. Coat Hangers VI (pictured on page 8), although in reductive terms just a "bunch of random lines," shows a tremendous intuitive sensitivity to line and form--it yearns to come alive. This is also evident in Automatic Drawing: Pine Branches (number 68-73), where the dozen or so lines he draws seem...
...have simply developed a distaste for the "stylized-explicit," precision vocabulary that evades making any point at all. Section superstars, masters of this technique, have essentially unlocked the secret of the horoscope--by expressing generic thoughts with seemingly specific words, they magically persuade all those willing. While I relinquish most hope of being persuasive in class, at least my form and content are happily congruent in their ambiguity...
...have simply developed a distaste for the "stylized-explicit," precision vocabulary that evades making any point at all. Section superstars, masters of this technique, have essentially unlocked the secret of the horoscope--by expressing generic thoughts with seemingly specific words, they magically persuade all those willing. While I relinquish most hope of being persuasive in class, at least my form and content are happily congruent in their ambiguity...
...with a three-pointer from the left corner giving Harvard a 71-68 lead. After Princeton's Brian Earl tied it up with a trey of his own, Beam answered the call once again, drilling yet another three, giving the Crimson a 74-71 lead that it would never relinquish...