For skeptical postmodernists, history, if it exists at all, is a humble discipline, dependent on the present… . The contemporary is the time frame that counts most… . History is important only to the extent that its traces have an impact on the present … it is sufficient to let “the present interrogate the past.”— Pauline Marie Rosenau

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John Millei’s “Maritime” paintings (2004–07) and “White Squalls” (2005) are enormous, magnificent paintings, mural-like in their panoramic scope and imposing scale, and executed in what can only be called a grand Abstract-Expressionistic manner.

John Millei
Maritime #4 (View from the Deck)
2004
Ace Gallery

[John was one of my core faculty at Claremont Graduate University.]