/lit/ - Literature

>>5886838
I-i have no other place to go...I'm not humoring you, I have stood before Rembrandts and Da Vinci's and I truly have trembled before their brilliance...their more human than human excellence.
I've dedicated my life to the craft and the analysis of painters and what I found was indeed the hidden world of which Odd Nerdrum spoke, but only glimpses.
No brilliant painter will admit this, but painting on a high level is extremely difficult...the majority of scholars will not go beyond copying.
There is no way of explaining without having the other engage in the same obsessiveness on how you can read a painting, where you see where the painter has had more joy, where he is lazy, where he is frustrated.
It's there, it's terribly spectacular, but nobody now seems to be willing to go that far.

I'll give you an anecdote...I stood in the Uffizi in awe before the Caravaggio hall while an elder American lady comes in, takes one single glance and spouts in a loud Midwestern accent 'I DON'T LIKE IT'.

My rage.the dept.