LEARN THE RULES Painting

Four works form a quadrilogy, called Rules. They are a paraphrase of Marvin Bell’s small text 32 STATEMENTS ABOUT POETRY. We are concerned with number 5, consisting of 4 sentences: Learn the rules Break the rules Make up new rules Break the new rules Start by understanding the situation of today, violate the rules in order to create something interesting, make up new rules out of the violations, and then break these new rules too for a new break-through. We have applied the same ideas to create break-through in projects where rule based methodologies dominate, useful for many, but also with their own significant problems that can be addressed via violations based instead on experience and insight. The four sentences have universal validity. Each of the four works is named by the corresponding sentence. Moreover, each work has its title written in the same color as the background, barely visible. On top, and while the paint is still wet, the main motive is then added, pulling out the title from the background and into the motive. Work number 1 is the entry (Japanese: 入口, iriguchi) to the series and our production and consists of rigid shapes. The Greek text is the mythical rule above the entrance to Plato’s academy: Let no one ignorant of Geometry enter. Plato is perhaps best known for the cave allegory, roughly the idea that phenomena are shadows of universal ideas, like the shadows projected by a fire on a cave wall. The work is intended to point out the importance of not just understanding what the rules say, but also why they are there. While we are not consciously inspired by any specific artists, in hindsight we do see a resemblance to Franz Kline and Mark Rothko.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:31.5 W x 39.4 H x 0.7 D in

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