(August 5, 2022 at 7:43 am)Belacqua Wrote: And the (in retrospect bizarre) idea from the '60s that any sort of illusionism or subject matter in painting -- other than making the paint itself the subject -- was somehow fakery. He would have found that insane.
Very true. Ruskin was not opposed to illusions so long as they were transparent and obvious.
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