"At first still life seems so entirely of this world—a clarification and celebration of what is—that it can have little to do with mortality. But in truth, the secret subject of these paintings is what they resist. What they deny is also the underlying force, more potent than lead or tin or orpiment, that makes these lemons glow with life." (21)
"Here intimacy seems to confront its opposite, which is the immensity of time. Everything—even a painting itself—is evanescent, but here, for now, these citizens of the great community of the disappearing hang, for a term, suspended." (21)
"still life is refuge, consolation, place of quiet. The world becomes bearable, apprehensible because so many elements have been subtracted from it." (53)
"Here you are, the painters say, a body in the city of bodies, in concert, in the astonishing republic of things, the world of light, which is the same gray world sliding past the boat, lapping and chilly, alive with detail as the boat pushes forward, slipping away." (55)
"At first still life seems so entirely of this world—a clarification and celebration of what is—that it can have little to do with mortality. But in truth, the secret subject of these paintings is what they resist. What they deny is also the underlying force, more potent than lead or tin or orpiment, that makes these lemons glow with life." (21)
ReplyDelete"Here intimacy seems to confront its opposite, which is the immensity of time. Everything—even a painting itself—is evanescent, but here, for now, these citizens of the great community of the disappearing hang, for a term, suspended." (21)
ReplyDelete"still life is refuge, consolation, place of quiet. The world becomes bearable, apprehensible because so many elements have been subtracted from it." (53)
ReplyDelete"Here you are, the painters say, a body in the city of bodies, in concert, in the astonishing republic of things, the world of light, which is the same gray world sliding past the boat, lapping and chilly, alive with detail as the boat pushes forward, slipping away." (55)
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