"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

16 February 2020

Frontier.

Hogarth, The Painter and His Pug, 1745


The edge of a painting is its frontier, where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world, where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end. 

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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