Visuality

How Long Does it Take To Look at a Painting?

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Institute of Chicago, Vision, Stare, Picasso, Gazing, Glimpsing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Patience, Impatience, Matisse, Mondrian, Looking, Visuality, Glancing, Gaze, Glimpse, Louvre, Glance, Staring, Tintoretto, Painting, Art, Jesus, Christian Art, Christianity, Worship, Arts News
James Elkins

My subject in these posts is how we look at the world. In future columns, I will be writing about all sorts of things, from hieroglyphs to ice halos, ...

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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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