
Works of Art by Agnes Martin and Hiroyuki Doi
The Anthropocene Reviewed
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How to Paint Innocence Without Relying on Metaphors
Innocence has no face or shape. It's an abstract idea. When over relied upon, metaphor becomes not just a crutch, but a falsehood. The question for Martin was how do you paint innocence without relying on essentializing metaphors? And that endeavor to paint emotion itself was, and still is, highly controversial in the art world.
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