Abstract art is a challenge to approach, and more than once I’ve overheard a frustrated dismissal of the entire genre. But the reward of spending time with a bewildering puzzle can be great. The various reasons that abstract art is important are explored in a fascinating letter by art critic Jerry Saltz. Abstraction is a […]
Karen Sardisco
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Burying and resurrecting visual pleasure
Ever since the invention of photography, the “death” of painting (and by association, drawing) has been proclaimed. Every time new forms of representation are announced, the death of old technologies is reiterated. Painting should have been buried a long time ago. Of course, painting has survived, although not in the service of “objective” representation but […]
