Visual Hostage: Notes on Modern Painting

Author: Jia Xiaowei
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: When people shift from traditional visual pleasure to modern spiritual confusion before the easel, painting has also moved from shaking the soul to attracting the eyes. Beyond a pile of bizarre symbols, what does modern painting have? "Everyone can find something in it, and everyone can criticize something in it." This, on one hand, indicates the ambiguity of modern painting, and on one hand, provides an infinitely broad space for the "autumn standers." Therefore, the painting notes presented to us are more like a Baudelaire-style aesthetic interpretation than a Freudian "dream interpretation." In the author's poetic fragments of thought, philosophy and painting are interwoven; behind the delicate and sensitive words, fragmented thoughts and deformed beauty coexist "poetically." This book is an exploration of the ideas behind some painters and their works. It is divided into three parts: Under the Night Corridor, The Player on the Balcony, and Questions for Mr. Paul. The content includes Night and Klee, Delving into Delvaux's Desperate Girls, and more.