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Spring 2009 Visual Arts

Wolf Kahn, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

"With each painting, you have to set up a situation in which you can be surprised.  You have to have the opportunity to be spontaneous.

 

I’m really a Platonist and a Kantian.  Everyone’s mind contains has a Category for Beauty.  In painting, each individual painting has its own requirements. When I’m working on a painting I keep going until I meet its requirements.  And then I stop."

 

 

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