Reality is a subclass of imagination. It’s fascinating how that happens but it makes sense. We are not in a position yet to understand what’s going on. Artworks eschewed technology, which made them difficult to reach, when the rationale is in the middle of doughnut.
Art most often is joyful and appealing to the general populace.
In visual perception, an odalisque is never seen as it really is, as it physically is. Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain (Childe Hassam).
Fairytales combine elements of dream-like reality, the psychological and the uncanny: There is not a single thing that isn't natural.
Many pictures choose their residences, that's what freedom means. Every picture has its own reasons to move.
Body proportion is a simple calculation with a complicated past. The Symbolists must be fought like a disease.
Camille Pissarro
Art stems from a distortion of perception and expression of reality. That's for crazy artists. Good art is craziness. Enigmatic look is higher mysterious power. Figure drawing without thought is art lost and thought without drawing is perilous.
You perceive it as if you are looking at reality and not at how fine art works.
Paradox number three is that art objects are not to be merely aesthetically appreciated for their own sake, given their world-transforming capacity. No action is too small.
Image is everything, happy pictures are always joyous and optimistic.
"A painting is a visual history of all the tiny decisions, many totally subconscious, that coalesce into what we call a painting."
Images are not just passive entities that coexist with their human hosts, any more than the microorganisms that dwell in our intestines. They change the way we think and dream.
In visual perception, odalisques are never seen as they really are, as they physically are.
Eugéne Delacroix
"A painting is a visual history of all the tiny decisions, many totally subconscious, that coalesce into what we call a painting."
Because sight is not vision, enigmatic symbols of fancy orientalism used as fantasy-like figures are real odalisques. I'm in awe, and a tad bit jealous.
Images refunction our memories and imaginations, bringing new criteria and new desires into the world.
A new body of work? Have you any evidence for that? With error bars and everything? A bit like a bird attempting to fly with one wing.
Stop coddling pictures and images, even if Weathering Joe is delighted they captured the imagination of visitors. They need to grow up and take responsibility for their enabling of an art market that ignores the small things that matters. Enough said.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
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