Insight

Richard Pousette-Dart
"In the interest of everyone, the artist has a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual." Dalai Lama

Richard Pousette-Dart
A first generation abstract expressionist and founding member of what is known as the New York School, Pousette-Dart was the youngest of this loosely-knit group that included modern art titans, such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. Influenced by Eastern philosophy and American transcendental thought, Pousette-Dart never separated his art from his deeply felt sense of the spiritual. http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/3323