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Paradigms of art

Deligence needed when approaching paradigms of art.

The artist was always seen as someone standing apart from the world looking at it through a window and then depicting what is seen within that frame. We have said no. We will smash that window, we will reach in, we will be part of this world that we’re looking at rather than standing apart. Every painting of course carries its own image and its own depiction, but also carries a larger metaphor of the shift in perception in the world.

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