Healing brush
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Read more: Healing brushPainting is seeing. Seeing is memetic, as Aristotle rightly said. Memesis means imitating, like Beethoven…
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Read more: Caught cold in San AntonioWhether it was the two flights to San Antonio, the graduation ceremony in the cold…
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Read more: Art lovers–bah!I am not an art lover. I have no patience for those who wax elegant…
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Read more: Tissot etchings at ClevelandI think James Tissot (1836–1902) is a much better artist than I once believed. I…
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Read more: Do not be an art appreciatorWhen I hear someone say, “I appreciate art,” I cringe. The speaker means, “I understand…
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Read more: Turn toward realism?
Realism is becoming popular once again in painting studios. This development is welcome but it’s…
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Read more: Good art books: David to Delacroix, The Rise of Romantic MythologyDorothy Johnson has written several books related to David and the Neoclassicists. David to Delacroix:…
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Read more: Death of history paintingAt the end of the eighteenth century, art flowed along several currents. History painting, the…