About the Book
In much of the writing in these 3 books, you could say that the underlying theme is the truth status of painting and of landscape in particular: what does a painting presume to catch or embody. Does it have reality? Francis Bacon once stated that “after the camera, painting had to deepen the game”, and since Bacon did not believe in what you could call, “the abstract project”, painting had to be representation plus. Painting is a single territory that stretches from Picasso to the humblest amateur and they are all judged and judge themselves in terms that are common. In simplest terms, a painter tries to “say something” rather than simply make something pretty or pleasing. That makes painting an unforgiving arena where most of us fall on our face. That “say something” is never a purely aesthetic value, so in what I have written in these 3 books there is a lot that may seem only very obliquely relevant to “art”.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Fine Art
- Additional Categories Nature / Wildlife, Poetry
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 240 - Publish Date: Sep 03, 2019
- Language English
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About the Creator
anthony bamber
N.Yorkshire
