“Content, if you want to say, is a glimpse of something, an encounter, you know, like a flash. It’s very tiny – very tiny, content.”
Willem De Kooning
“No color… There is something wrong, irresponsible and mindless about color.”
Ad Reinhardt, Rule 6: Twelve Rules for a New Academy (1953)
John Cage, Litany for the Whale, Recitation and 32 responses for 2 equal voices without vibrato, Paul Hillier & The Theatre of Voices, Alan Bennett and Paul Elliott (Voices)
“The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art-as-art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art….
Words in art are words.
Letters in art are letters.
Writing in art is writing.
Messages in art are not messages.”Ad Reinhardt
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The world in front of our eyes is extraordinary, the difficulty is in seeing what is in front of our eyes. The difficulty for the artist is in acknowledging what he sees.”
Michael Craig-Martin, Always Now
“Seeing is not as simple as it looks.”
Ad Rheinhardt
My name is Ian Talbot and I am an artist and photographer living in London.
This blog is intended as an insight into the research, thinking and connections that precede the projects I undertake. I will also show new and experimental work. Naturally, not all of the work shown here will eventually make the cut. These are very much 'works in progress'...
You can see a complete collection of my work at my website:
Ian Talbot :: Objectively Speaking