Please see introduction on first index page . Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loneliness.
Painting is a self discovery.
Every good artist paints what he is. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting. Click on the thumbnails to view larger image along with additional information.