On the unvitality of art, the gap between press release and painting, & the problem of form and content, w/ reference to Diva Corp's Insta-Essay and paintings by Doron Langberg and Cynthia Daignault.

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"This gap between press release and painting—and our complacency—no, our expectation of it, is a symptom of what can only be a shared suspicion that painting is on its own incapable of expressing anything relevant to the time we live in.

Words, we thus feel, are necessary to explain what a painting is about, to clue us into the relevant context, conceptual framework, underlying “research,” artistic intentions, etc., etc., etc., without which, we seem to worry, we would find ourselves staring blankly at colored paste spread across a surface.”