“Rather than devote their lives to mastering a particular medium, some artists began to push the boundaries of those mediums and even forgo them all together. There's sculpture that is purposefully unmonumental, paintings purposefully non-virtuosic, drawings purposefully simple. It's not that these things don't take skill. They just take different kinds of skill - research, deduction, collaboration, exploration of new materials, radical thought.”
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