On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:42 AM, William Conger wrote:
When artists decide to crop their own work after painting, they are expressing the fact that the work is not done until that point and also they are saying in effect that the composition is "created" by the framing or cut edge. Considered first or last, the framing edge is critical to composition.
I've noticed a bit of an odd, minor trend locally. I've seen a number of unframed paintings in which the artist paints the image around and onto the side. The canvas wasn't painted loose and then stretched around the frame, so that remnants of the original painted surface fall onto the side, but that are painted after the plain white canvas was stretched. I really dislike it, it looks goofy as hell, it's a gimmick, and it has the effect of moving those four first marks around the bend.
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