I remember standing in my gallery back in ’98, staring at a landscape that had cost a local collector three months’ salary, only to realize the artist had completely botched the light. They’d used every expensive pigment in the tube, but because they didn’t understand the actual physics of how colour works in painting, the […]
I remember sitting in the back of a crowded, overheated exhibition in London, watching a seasoned collector stare at a large-scale landscape for nearly ten minutes. He wasn’t lost in the “sublime beauty” or the “emotional resonance” of the brushwork; he was simply confused. His gaze kept snagging on a muddy corner of the canvas, […]
Stop standing in front of a canvas with your hands clasped behind your back, nodding solemnly as if you’re deciphering a dead language. Most people think knowing how to look at a painting requires a PhD in semiotics or a deep understanding of the artist’s childhood trauma, but that is mostly performative nonsense designed to […]