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In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa
painting
, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of
painting
is
painting
.
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If you add something to a
painting
, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
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The reckoning with idealism as a view of life is universal, but it also touches on something central in art-its life's substance. One must understand that it is impossible to distinguish between a picture's form and its substance. As the flower's structure is governed by the intentional tension (when it loses the sap the form is lost), so also with art the substance creates the tension. Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living
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Be modern
collectors, museums
if you have old
paintings
do not despair
Retain your memories
but detourn them
so that they correspond with your era.
Why reject the old
if one can modernize it
with a few strokes of the brush.
This casts a bit of contemporaneity
on your old culture.
Be up to date
and distinguished
at the same time.
Painting
is over
You might as well finish it off
Detourn (détournez)
Long live
painting
.
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This calls for an explanation and it may be this, that no
painting
, however good it seems to us is anything in itself, except chemicals smeared on a flat surface. The value in the work of art is in the spectator, you see, and a
painting
has no bigger value than the mental and intellectual forces it arouses in the spectator.
Asger Jorn
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Asger Jorn
Born:
March 3, 1914
Died:
May 1, 1973
(aged 59)
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