January 2011
1 post
Canvases and human bodies have smooth skins, usually, roughness being a relative term in this regard. Most human flesh looks pretty un-smooth under a microscope, likewise the smoothest oil painting, but that’s not the impression either create. That is to say, it’s not how they work. Not how they work on you, the viewer, who desperately wants to take things in by being taken in. Both paintings...