Nerding out over paintings and their physicality
Last weekend I spent some very refreshing time with a Helen Frankenthaler exhibition. I gave myself permission to stand in front of each picture for a relatively long time (this is why all museums should give free entry BTW, it really changes how you experience the works).
And I got completely caught up in artistic #rapture, wondering at the details and humanness of these paintings that could not exist as anything other than paintings. Photos can't do justice to the mix of scale and detail, the visibility of the physical process of creation and the *beauty* of the colours and the arrangement of the whole.
Here are some of those details, removed from their context.
#art #painting


