a brigade of aesthetic police.
Must be my favourite quote about the shadowy nature of ekphrasis. “Everywhere in ekphrastic studies we encounter the language of subterfuge, of conspiracy, there is something taboo about moving across media,…
“The enormity of the descriptive act cannot be exaggerated or overstated. It constitutes a movement from art to text, from visual to verbal, that is inevitably a betrayal.”
Jas Elsner in his 2010 essay ‘Art History as Ekphrasis’
in Journal Art History (33, 1, pp. 10-27)
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
“spending an hour…” Herman Hesse
"Let anyone who is accustomed to looking at a great many pictures in an exhibition to try just once, if he is still capable of it, spending an hour in…
Miles Mathis on the ‘immediacy’ of paintings
“The non-linearity of painting makes it less abstract than the other arts. By this I mean that it requires fewer or less elaborate mental constructs for its comprehension. It is…