November late field II
This field painting is revised. It is a re-vision of my last post's image, a tweek. The goldenrod-like passages are a bit stiffer/drier than before. (They were just a bit "damp" or merged with the other in the previous painting, I decided.) Words are difficult explainers when the tweeks are so slight. Can you see the difference? Please excuse me this revision; I did think the painting was finished when I posted it here.
Jack Levine talked about his troubles finishing paintings. His gallery would send a truck to pick up a painting, and the truck would go back, empty, time and time again. Also, this "trouble" of his: I remember a truly wonderful large painting of Susanna as a child that hung in their living room whenever I was there (first, when I was studying with Ruth and then, when visiting); Jack would ocassionally gaze upon it and remark that maybe it would be finished soon. When I first heard this comment, Susanna was a young married woman.!
We re-do, don't we, all of us, even if we are not painters. Something about respect for the subject there, isn't there?
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