Artist: William Aubrey Walmsley
Date: 1964
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Tallahassee, United States)
Technique: Linen
Like most artists, Bill Walmsley worked in different media throughout his career. He had a “Bad Drawing” series and a “Bad Painting” series, such as this wonderfully exuberant painting from 1964. Walmsley has an artist’s skepticism and an artist’s strength regarding critical opinion: “You always get critics...I do think they are good, but they...don’t always know everything. You have to think for yourself. They don’t like to be told they don’t know everything. You don’t know everything. I don’t know everything...and I judge my own faults or badness or goodness. I don’t let them do it for me.” For this philosophical position, he had had empirical evidence:
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