Category: thoughts about painting
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Paintings as premonitions
What makes some paintings into premonitions? Is there something in the human mind that can peer into a dim future and translate it into paint? [caption id="attachment_1336" align="alignnone" width="1000"] looking resolutely ahead; turning away from the void![/caption] Some shadowy rather scary things have been happening of late. The blog has been neglected while I tangled…
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Painting is more important than art
This week the snow and ice returned, leading to winter activities such as huddling indoors, clinging to radiators and wearing hats. A further incentive to stay in was provided by the arrival of a new book: “What Painting Is” by James Elkins, bought with birthday money and full of strange (but true) ideas about painters…