What Painting Is – $495
by rgonzalezr
When one looks at a Monet, what exactly is one looking at? A framed painting, surely. And, too, as traditional art history texts would suggest, an “impression of light and atmosphere.” But for art historian and painter Elkins, the essence of a painting–” what painting is” –goes beyond such abstractions. For one must not overlook the “process” of painting itself, the process by which artists get their hands dirty mixing oils and pigments, jabbing and scraping until one day the […]
