a bit of nothing
May. 1st, 2011 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
victorieuse1"For me, and perhaps only for me, these bits of peripheral vision are little heroic moments, small monuments to modernity – if modernity can still, in part, be defined in that great phrase of Baudelaire’s as “the ephemeral, the fugitive and the contingent”."
David Batchelor on monochromes.
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue16/colourchart2.htm
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"You do not have to paint every blade of grass to get someone to understand that they are looking at grass - you paint the situation of grass. It lights differently, and shadows fall differently. That is what Holbein has managed to do here."
Chuck Close on Hans Holbein
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue8/messagesfromamaster.htm
David Batchelor on monochromes.
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue16/colourchart2.htm
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"You do not have to paint every blade of grass to get someone to understand that they are looking at grass - you paint the situation of grass. It lights differently, and shadows fall differently. That is what Holbein has managed to do here."
Chuck Close on Hans Holbein
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue8/messagesfromamaster.htm