tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post988732409641747735..comments2024-02-24T00:41:37.836-08:00Comments on The Buddha Diaries: OLD DOG, YOUNG(ER) DOGPeter Clothierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-80875836600731647922012-11-09T01:03:35.020-08:002012-11-09T01:03:35.020-08:00Although I have not spent any time with Ed for yea...Although I have not spent any time with Ed for years I did have several intense years of interaction with him while I was chair of sculpture at UCLA during the early eighties. We served on The MOCA Artists Advisory Council together with many other LA artists from !979 to 1983. <br /><br />Ed was painting diagonal grids of intersecting parallel brushed bands of color then. A black and red one from that period is in the permanent collection of MOCA and is on view now at MOCA Grand. Ed taught attitude and honesty at UCLA or wherever he taught. <br /><br />Ed can see and smell chicken shit art made for markets one light year away. Artists who make a career of being an artist make him nauseous. For Ed painting is the reason he gets up in the morning. It is his life and I consider him to be one of the greatest living painters of our time. "Paint has a life of it's own and I like to let it live", Jackson Pollack said. Ed does go through many gallons of paint before letting one live and go out into the world to be seen. Every day he works he has no idea what will occur and does not want to have any preconceived concept. Sure he does select color, viscosity, scale, proportion, method of application but after that it is pure painting that occurs. <br /><br />The monumental paintings of Fan K'uan, abstract paintings of Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin and Morris Louis are other examples of work that are staggering for their apparent effortless execution. Ed lived near these last two giants of abstraction in NYC, <br /><br />The discoveries and the journey are what remain most important to this wise and courageous non objective process painter. His honesty, love of painting and sincere appreciation of beauty has left the history of art a body of work that will continue to stand the test of time. <br /><br /><br /><br />Ed will never repeat himself for authenticity does not allow chicken shit to exist in his studio or in his life. CHI SPHEREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07278628028066177635noreply@blogger.com