Comments on: A Talk With: John Elderfield http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/01/14/a_talk_with_john_elderfield/ Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mick Nye http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/01/14/a_talk_with_john_elderfield/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Mick Nye Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:13:55 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/01/14/a_talk_with_john_elderfield/#comment-195 There is often a great deal of focus on the drinking or other bad habits of great artists like de Kooning. I think that people often don't realize the pressure a creative effort puts on a human being; the fact that creating always is filled with doubt and a questioning of your core values, your own self, exposes your strength as well as your weaknesses as a person to yourself, in a manner which is extremely hard to face day after day. It is essentially a question about choices, to choose what is right in the painting or the creation, colors, style, materials, and so on. Each time you are faced with these choices you are questioning your aesthetic as well as ethic values, you perform, and expose yourself. Lets appreciate the result of this struggle, and not get too preoccupied with the bad habits, its just life. Mick Nye - <a href="http://www.micknye.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.micknye.com</a> There is often a great deal of focus on the drinking or other bad habits of great artists like de Kooning. I think that people often don't realize the pressure a creative effort puts on a human being; the fact that creating always is filled with doubt and a questioning of your core values, your own self, exposes your strength as well as your weaknesses as a person to yourself, in a manner which is extremely hard to face day after day. It is essentially a question about choices, to choose what is right in the painting or the creation, colors, style, materials, and so on. Each time you are faced with these choices you are questioning your aesthetic as well as ethic values, you perform, and expose yourself. Lets appreciate the result of this struggle, and not get too preoccupied with the bad habits, its just life.

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