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The Fascination of the Unfinished
Unfinished Works
Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
Unfinished
paintings are enticing cracks in the facade of art history, lures along
the path to a deeper understanding of artistic processes and impulses.
For all the paintings that artists complete, countless others are left
incomplete for any number of reasons — poverty or war, a change of plan
or vision, the illness or death of the artist. While many of these works
have been destroyed, and others forgotten, some are now recognized as
significant works of art, accorded a special place in history and in an
artist’s body of work, in part because they can bring us closer to
understanding the mysterious process of painting, and, indeed, to
painting’s future. After all, nothing inspires a young artist like a
close look at how an earlier one worked.
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