What Is Hypersentimentalism? On the New Tendency in Art
The Art Angle
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The Emotional Headshots of a Painter
The viewer comes into play because if you can look at those installation views and you don't need to look at the work list to know who you're seeing, that is a level of access and membership to that scene. It was a very cool show. This is not necessarily like a criticism of it. I'm just trying to sort of name the thing that I feel like is happening there. Let's talk about a third example. The painter named Tobias Spictig and the show that you mentioned that's actually called Dear Friends and the works have been described as emotional headshots. You know how nice it is to know people well enough to be able to kind of paint their essential
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