Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
Editors’ Note – On Intimacy and Painting
“Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change?
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Hilary Harkness on Henri Matisse
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