- Transmission Difficulties
- Vancouver Painting in the 1960s
- A painting is a pitiable thing . . .
- The experience of a work of art . . .
- A painting is mediumistic . . .
- By Scott Watson
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For Gaucher, the guiding metaphor of the Grey on Grey paintings was silence. And even as they vied for a place of succession in the New York firmament, the artist himself allowed that they were "not paintings anymore but environment conditions."34 Of course, Gaucher meant that the paintings created their own environment, but how perfectly they matched the environment in which they were first shown and in which they must have been first conceived.
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"Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s" by Scott Watson. Originally published in Paint: A Psychedelic Primer (published in conjunction with the _PAINT_ exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Neil Campbell, September 20, 2006 - February 25, 2007). Edited by Monika Szewczyk (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006), pp. 14-27.
For Gaucher, the guiding metaphor of the Grey on Grey paintings was silence. And even as they vied for a place of succession in the New York firmament, the artist himself allowed that they were "not paintings anymore but environment conditions."34 Of course, Gaucher meant that the paintings created their own environment, but how perfectly they matched the environment in which they were first shown and in which they must have been first conceived.
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"Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s" by Scott Watson. Originally published in Paint: A Psychedelic Primer (published in conjunction with the _PAINT_ exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Neil Campbell, September 20, 2006 - February 25, 2007). Edited by Monika Szewczyk (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006), pp. 14-27.
