History of Art

The Most Beautiful Painting in the World

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Elkins

This month I am going to write about the painting that means the most to me, Giovanni Bellini's Ecstasy of St. Francis in the Frick Collection in Manh...

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How to Look at Mondrian

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vision, Seeing, Fingerprints, Cheddar Cheese, Oil Painting, Candle Flames, Porcelain Teeth, Spectra, Twigs, How to Use Your Eyes, Art Theory, Visual Studies, Painting, Sand, Sight, X-Rays, History, Piet Mondrian, Art, Mondrian, Visual Culture, Grass, Galaxies, Art History, Art Criticism, Visuality, Egyptian Scarabs, Sunsets, Viruses, History of Art, Fine Art, Glimpsing, Attention, Looking, Staring, Gazing, Distraction, Patience, Arts News
James Elkins

Our eyes are far too good for us. They show us so much that we can't take it all in, so we shut out most of the world, and try to look at things as br...

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