Brice Marden: `I Love Drawing' and It Defines the Soul of Work by This Artist

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YOU NEVER know what is going to happen when you make arrangements for artists to talk about their work. Sometimes they have very little to say because, legitimately, they feel that they have said what they want to say in their paintings or sculptures.

Others, whose minds and vocabularies have been tainted by the convoluted language of the writers of the school for the deliberately obscure, should let the work speak for itself.

But many artists use language creatively and offer listeners genuine pleasure by introducing them to ideas and to worlds of creativity and imagination. Brice Marden did that recently when he gave a talk at the St. Louis Art …