a thousand words
STORY & PAINTING BY ROBERT BECK
SIMPLE THINGS THE CHALLENGES IN ART aren’t always dramatic. Often a subtlety can elevate an image from one you can identify to one that resonates. A painting is a flat surface, yet the viewer is accustomed to a world with three dimensions and a wider range of color and light. The painter has to deal with the medium’s limits in a manner that speaks a language the viewer is familiar with. In the search for that shared language, the individual elements—the vocabulary—matters. Those common understandings are at the core of representational painting. I’m looking for elements we all can recognize, even someone who may not have C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2 5 ICON |
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