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From: dibs Category: Art Date: 15 May 2009 Time: 06:26 PM Review: Painting, being an art form ,has to aspire to tell the truth. 99% of it fails to do this , and probably 98% fails for want of trying. The truth is hard to come by and hard to identify. There is no progression in art. Rudolph Stingel is one of the greatest living painters but this has nothing to do with his historical debt to Duchamp. His work is unequivocally melancholy, an intuitively realised melancholy. This is not palatable or consoling and doesnt offer any political solutions. Why would artists not want to draw on art that came before modernism ? Maybe they could roll the clock back even further, back to the caves ? That's unless theyre worried about what teacher might think.