Carl Andre
Carl Andre
Carl Andreis an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworksto more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space. In 1988, Andre was tried and acquitted in the death of his wife, artist Ana Mendieta...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth16 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
art burden difficulty draining greatest meanings mind painful ridding seem work
I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.
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That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.