(June 1, 2022 at 8:36 pm)Belacqua Wrote: This is about literature, rather than painting, but makes a relevant point concerning the arts today.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/2...h-freedom/
What I like about the visual arts are the aspects that resist narative...i.e. what cannot be coveyed by words. So, while I find literary analyis interesting, it generally does not evoke in me an aesthetic response...a direct encounter with Beauty. The exceptions that comes to mind are Borges's short stories. But even those do not approach the affect I get from Raeburn portraits or a Matta.
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