It is imagination that first taught man the moral meaning of color, of contour, of sound, and of scent. At the beginning of the world, it created analogy and metaphor. —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) I HAVE […]
Ah, but a man’s speech should exceed his grammar, or what’s a metaphor? AS AN ARTIST and educator of over 18 years, I have noticed a growing tendency of people more and more losing the […]
Somewhere high above the clouds. We had just left Tel Aviv behind and below us when the stewardess approached us in the back of the plane. To be precise, she didn’t come to me, but […]
… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer […]
What you see is what you see. —Frank Stella (*1936) IN A WAY, starting to write this essay is already the dilemma in itself. The dilemma to talk about art. And while I start to […]