Barbara’s studio

A:  If I may speak in the most general terms, several qualities come to mind that, for me, mark real artistic achievement: 

• firm artistic control that allows the artist to create works that simultaneously demonstrate formal coherence while responding to inner necessity
• the creation of new forms and techniques that are adapted to expressing the artist’s highly personal vision
• an authentic and balanced fusion of form, method, and idea
• using material from one’s own idiosyncratic experiences and subtly transforming it in a personal inimitable way during the creative process
• the meaning of the thing created is rigorously subordinated to its design, which once established, generates its own internal principles of harmony and coherence  

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