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A painting’s outermost layer is typically what offers itself to the eye. More than likely, there are foundational layers—a ground, perhaps some gesso, a substrate of some kind or another—to secure the image and give it a structure, but we can be sure that any given painting has within it layers that are not accessible to us. The so-called ground of the image is very often comprised of hues and textures that give a painting its dimensionality and what is often characterized as presence. The hope is often that a painting contains imperceptible layers of labor that provoke, in the sensitive viewer, the idea that an image has been constructed over time. A failure to account for this accretion and accumulation is to succumb to the deceit of pictorial representation, to believe that a picture lends itself fully to what can be seen and that it withholds no secrets from its viewers.
The body of work left by the late artist Franne Davids makes itself only partially available to vision. This is…
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A painting’s outermost layer is typically what offers itself to the eye. More than likely, there are foundational layers—a ground, perhaps some gesso, a substrate of some kind or another—to secure the image and give it a structure, but we can be sure that any given painting has within it layers that are not accessible to us. The so-called ground of the image is very often comprised of hues and textures that give a painting its dimensionality and what is often characterized as presence. The hope is often that a painting contains imperceptible layers of labor that provoke, in the sensitive viewer, the idea that an image has been constructed over time. A failure to account for this accretion and accumulation is to succumb to the deceit of pictorial representation, to believe that a picture lends itself fully to what can be seen and that it withholds no secrets from its viewers.
The body of work left by the late artist Franne Davids makes itself only partially available to vision. This is…
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