Visual Hostage -- Notes on Modern Painting: 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 bewilderment before an easel, painting has also moved largely from shaking the soul to attracting the eye. What else does modern painting contain besides a pile of bizarre symbols? "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 incredibly vast space of freedom for the. Therefore, the painting notes presented to us is more of a Baudelaire-style aesthetic interpretation than a Freudian "analysis of dreams." In the author's poetic thought fragments, philosophy and painting are intertwined; behind the delicate and sensitive words, fragmented thoughts and deformed beauty coexist "poetically." This book is a conceptual interpretation of some painters and paintings. The book is divided into three parts: Under the Night Corridor, The Player on the Balcony, and Questions for Mr. Paul Klee. It includes topics such as Night and Klee, and More on Delvaux's Desperate Girls.