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Rach Codina's avatar

Love this breakdown of the visual experience. It is a relearning of seeing, with ALL of our senses. In Monet's words, “To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”

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Filip's avatar

Agreed. It’s blasphemy to try to recognize everyday objects in abstract paintings.

Emotions are thoughts accompanied by somatic effects, like tingling or heaviness in throat and chest or goosebumps, and shivers sometimes overwhelming to cause full body shaking. With language, such thoughts can be described with words like warmth or comfort or uneasiness or bliss… and with visuals, such thoughts can be expressed with abstract painting. I love these two.

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