| Dip and Veer |
| Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville |
| Frank Ledwell |
"Marshall McLuhan, the late Canadian media
and communications guru, once characterized
abstract art as do-it-yourself art. The painting
provides colours and shapes, he observed, and
the viewer creates the picture. Although Alex
Colville is by no means an abstractionist, his art
tends to be so technically perfect and
aesthetically distanced it strikes me as leaving as
much room for the viewer's imagination as does
that of the abstract painter. That is why I am so
grateful to Colville's art for inspiring, challenging,
and freeing up my participating poetic
imagination, thus enabling this collection."
- Frank
Ledwell
and communications guru, once characterized
abstract art as do-it-yourself art. The painting
provides colours and shapes, he observed, and
the viewer creates the picture. Although Alex
Colville is by no means an abstractionist, his art
tends to be so technically perfect and
aesthetically distanced it strikes me as leaving as
much room for the viewer's imagination as does
that of the abstract painter. That is why I am so
grateful to Colville's art for inspiring, challenging,
and freeing up my participating poetic
imagination, thus enabling this collection."
- Frank
Ledwell
| "The most successful poetry in this collection slips [the painting's] moorings and becomes an achievement in its own right." - Maria Kubacki, The New Brunswick Reader |
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