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Last May I wrote about the painter Milton Avery in this space. Avery excited me not only for what he could do on canvas but also for what his canvases could do to the world at large. Red Rock Falls (1947) unlocked a host of memories in me and provided inspiration to set fingers to keyboard.
This drive to create has led me to wonder if Avery's particular brand of modern art, rooted in color and flatness, can activate the world in ways that set such art apart from the rest of modernism. Avery's use of color often takes precedence over subject matter and "becomes" his painting's subject matter-dominating both representation and authorship while never subsuming ...