PAINTINGS Book 2. With writing about painting.
What kind of "description" helps us to "read" a painting?
by Anthony Bamber
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Book 2 like Book 1 contains paintings and writing about painting: especially on what is the "truth" status of art. Is it presumed to have an over privileged access to "truth" or just allowed its area of play and irrelevance. Does it really appeal to anything deeper in an individual, reflect general social attitudes or is it just decorative? Has there been created an adequate language to describe what painting does and how? At the end of the book there is a long consideration of the conversations between David Sylvester and Francis Bacon on representation, I hope, in its widest sense.
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anthony bamber
N.Yorkshire
These paintings were all painted outside - a certain number being later worked on inside. What I wrote on Book 3 sums up my feeling about the now seemingly irrelevant art called landscape painting . Painting and all the arts are situated in a specific moment. The surrounding times matter. Some of the writing in all three books suggests that landscape painting might express our vague sense of loss and unease in an over-populated, urbanised habitat. There is a special pathos to landscape painting's attempt to picture the beauty of nature, seasons and weather in an age that we are told, faces at our hands, a sixth extinction. Landscape painting is indeed nostalgic.