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Wassily Kandinsky - A Portrait of Kandinsky the Artist
What this person sees in a painting is not just a picture, but a “thought machine” that includes the painter’s emotions, hopes, and ideas—as well as the spirit of the culture and the historical period in which he lived.
from Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It can be assumed that the artistic journey one of consistent re-examination, and therefore these depictions of artist as outsider might be the most logical means to express this sentiment.
from PAINTING_SMOKING_EATING_Paintings_About_Painting_Saalgado_Beers_Saatchi by readwise.io
- Harris – whose photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the High Museum in Atlanta – made a specialty of taking “portraits” in which the sitter does not appear, telling the story of a person by the rooms he or she occupies or the things they use daily. “I felt as if I had been training for this mome... See more
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