Art is FRAGILE.

Good painting, precipitously close to mud, is a record of a painter's concentration. The wrong smear and the tone or character is just muddy colors and mistakes. A face becomes an artist trying to paint a face, or a room or a landscape. The artist must see their way through to a delicate balanced work. "Right There" one of the best, is a valuable fragile work of art.

 

Fragility is our reality. Earth's orbit is fragile. It must not stray or we are too cold or too warm. Goodness, described in a famous song, is a hairbreadth footbridge over crashing waves of bad and evil sloshing around. Our own nature, filled with confidence and energy will push our bodies, and too far leads to health troubles. Good moral intentions pushed too far can lead to bad moral outcomes. The whole thing is precarious.

 

Painting is most sensitive to fragility since it depicts space when itself is a flat thing. A painting will 'fall flat' as stated above. "Right There" was pushed for years in order to engineer the shallow space in the foreground for this odd character to live his preposterous pose. Exposed all at once, hands and torso, red feet, the angles in the antiseptic interior, a landscape and the caricature large head all must work in concert within a fine tolerance. Without this perfect fragile balance, the orange dot he is pressing is irrelevant. A painting stands or falls on a small piece of orange like that sometimes..