Slow Looking With Peter Clothier
by Gregg Chadwick Peter Clothier Leads A One Hour/ One Painting Session photo by Joanne Warfield Peter Clothier's important new book Slow Looking: The Art of Looking at Art guides the reader seamlessly through the history, process, and ideas behind his One Hour/One Painting sessions. Clothier's development of One Hour/One Painting began with the realization that along with most museum or gallery visitors, he increasingly spent more time looking at the information label on the wall than at the artwork itself. To combat this habit, Peter began to spend an hour silently and inquisitively gazing at one work of art. Much influenced in recent years by Buddhist thought and practice, Clothier combined elements of meditation and contemplation in these sessions and found more profound and rewarding experiences. In a One Hour/One Painting session, Peter Clothier invites small groups...