National Gallery of Jamaica’s Tribute to Nettleford
Ringplay on Feb 03 2010 at 12:39 pm | Filed under: R.I.P.
“… probably the most reassuring thing about the best among [intuitive] artists is that [their art] is achieved with freedom from demagoguery and without the crassness of social realism. Yet they are no less ‘revolutionary’ for it. Rather, they are the embodiment of that creative tension between tradition and revolution, between an ancestral past and a groping but hopefully self-assured future. They are, as well, the embodiment of passion and contemplation of culture and instinct.”
Rex Nettleford, 1979
via The NGJ Pays Tribute to Rex Nettleford « National Gallery of Jamaica Blog.
