Thus I see the back of the canvas. This places me in a unique position as an art critic. Millions of pages have been written on the fronts of paintings. Nothing has been written on the backs of paintings. Paintings are dark on one side, and light on the other, like the moon, which circles the sun, always keeping one face in light and one in shadow.
Paintings are the results of industrial processes.
The canvas, the brushes, the paints are all created in factories. Because an individual combines these constituents, we imagine that individuals make paintings. Truly, artists only apply one factory-made substance onto another. Sadly, artists live in the same corporate world of manufactured goods that we do. They do not inhabit Renaissance Italy while we exist in 1999.