Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board carved portrait of woman The proportions of the box

The proportions of the box are terrific too

as in the case of this drawing I think

but has a great presence

as they seem a perfect couple to me

with the donkey clearly in control--giving the whole thing added resonance at this particular political moment

Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board carved portrait of woman The proportions of the boxTo my eye this "crock study" quite transcends itself as a study (an art school exercise I might guess), and I'm really rather obsessed with it as very resolved feeling, minimalist sort of a painting, which manages to impart this large pottery crock with a wonderfully stoic sense of force and grandeur. The squareness of the bottom of the crock above what I take for the ledge of a table seems to strip it of illusionism and makes the painting itself a