Refinement of artistic work through multiple castings.
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The line that has always remained fixed in my mind was Gauguin's comment
on the refinement of a work. I think on a very basic level, to simply
make a primary statement and move on has a very satisfying feeling to it.
Miles Davis, among others, was fond of one takes because there is a spirit
that is captured in that take, often lost on recurrent ones because
of increased expectations, abstraction of an "ideal", and trying
to recall of the "good stuff" while dismissing the "bad". Gauguin's work and
life capture this idea quite well, and he voices a call-to-arms by bringing
to light this notion of the non-refinement of the work. In Japanese ink
calligraphy, the calligrapher has but one chance to draw to the rice paper;
the live jazz improvisation must consider ALL of the performance to be part of
the statement. It is a further comment against the hyperabstraction of Western
artistic ideals, psuedo-ideals, that canonize relative cultural ideals and
discard that which is considered non-beatiful or non-meaningful.
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