Part 1 of this module is titled Painting and/as performance which, from the introduction quoting Harold Rosenberg’s (1952) description of abstract expressionism as ‘not a picture but an event’, seems to be positioning physicality as a critical component of any art work such that it merits its own listing in the credits. Clearly, and especially pre-digital, the physical actions of the maker of the work will heavily influence the eventual product. At a very simplistic level, I am left handed and could not replicate the gestural work of righthanders, so that even my copies (for practice) of well known pieces … Continue reading Part 1, Project 1, exercise 1 – Gesture: the limits of the body’s reach