Sam Friedman and a Temple of Silence


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“What makes a work of art good for you is not something that is already inside it but something that happens inside you.” Brian Eno said this about ambient music, which in the context of painting should resonate as much as the lingering notes of a single piano key in an empty hall. Painting can be an internal experience, an echo between canvas and viewer, paint and room, color and light. It is hard these days in a gallery or museum, bustling with visitors, to hear a painting or group of painitngs. But there is a stillness that moves you if you are in the right environment. One can look at the master of the quiet, Mark Rothko, who once…

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