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Jack Shadbolt: In His Words
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An intimately candid memoir about the ambitions, struggles, and achievements of one of Canada's most prolific and important modernist artists.
Why do I paint? I paint because I must.
But why must I? As Picasso would
answer, why must a bird sing?
I want a kind of dangerous art, risking the daemonic—
a form emerging out of chaos like a rare monster surfacing from the deep, throwing off spumes, breathing the air.
Jack Leonard Shadbolt (1909–1998) was one of Canada’s most prolific modernist artists,...
Why do I paint? I paint because I must.
But why must I? As Picasso would
answer, why must a bird sing?
I want a kind of dangerous art, risking the daemonic—
a form emerging out of chaos like a rare monster surfacing from the deep, throwing off spumes, breathing the air.
Jack Leonard Shadbolt (1909–1998) was one of Canada’s most prolific modernist artists,...
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