has nothing new to offer. Overall composition is nature, pattern, varieties of noise exciting and new in the late 1940’s, en vogue in the 1950’s, and dead by 1964.

If you choose to paint overall, do it the way jazz musicians invoke Coltrane or Davis. Paint overall the way a cinematographer invokes the French New Wave, or the fashion designer for West Side Story dresses 21st-century young people in saddle shoes, rolled jeans and penny loafers.

Smoke cigarettes while you’re doing it. Drink too much, and eat donuts. Buy a turntable and play jazz records.

Go to a bar, get in an argument with another artist about art. Brawl about it.

You’re an overall painter, Baby. Live it.