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It kinda sucks that Shimizu got better at painting. "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point." More accurately, "Heartbreaking: The Worst Artist You Know Just Made a Decent Painting." More more accurately, The bad-boy artist had gentrified his painting enough to make something pleasant, marketable. Tale as old as time. The wink-wink attitude of the early work which will eventually dissolve in time, leaving us with this gentle landscape abstraction. Pleasantry, from an artist with a "fart" series. This might be one of the farts. They might all be. The artist as orifice emitting Pantone colors of the year. Worst, it is better than most.
