[Art-lover]

never really captivated him with its integrity. When you look at how he wrote the body, can be questioned, whether he was interested in his forms. He loved women, but only noticed the deformed body, like fabric, but not copy them. ...

Separating it needs, it decomposes all - color, as well as light. Thus, freeing the face of all the diverse, condensing into a single all scattered, he could draw without outlines, to make portraits of almost no visible features, to write without color ...

It is impossible in the plastic art to go beyond the knowledge of being in itself. Physical beauty, he replaced the spiritual expression, play things - an almost complete transformation of their studies - psychological speculation, precise, skilful, or naive observation - a clairvoyant insights and visions, which he believed so sincerely, that he deceived. Thanks to this gift of double vision, intuition, this lunatic in the supernatural, he sees farther than anyone else. Life that he dreams, bears the imprint of a different world, making real life almost cold and pale.

The ideal of it, like sleep, which they see with their eyes closed - is light: a halo around objects, phosphorescent glow on a black background. All this is vague, uncertain, ephemeral and dazzling, consists of subtle shapes, ready to disappear before the artist to secure them. Stop the vision to move it to the canvas and give it form, shape, save the fragile fabric, provide gloss - and as a result of a strong, courageous and thorough painting, no less real than any other ...

... This imaginary artist of the material world, was in reality a pure spiritualist, say more precisely, an artist of ideas, it means a person whose area - an idea whose language - the language of ideas.

In this passage, the name of the artist, I replaced the pronoun "he" to give you pleasure to guess about what the famous surrealist, analytics, mysticism and conceptualist in a single person in question here.

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Rembrandt.
These words of Eugene Fromentin, written around 1876. - A good comment to calls made recently at the forum believed that the "classical paintings, ranging from old masters ... meant by a mere image of the story ... ... is nothing more than to bring these works can not. ... Idea is to principle is always the same: the image situation. "