Here, where the artist strives to shape, condense and order thoughts and sensations until they take on a form that communicates, is the promise of continuity as opposed to decay, of meaning as opposed to senselessness, of value as opposed to waste. Vanessa painted, not in order to forget anxiety and pain, but in order to transform them into the permanence of art.
Excerpt from the book, Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding, 1983
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Oh wow, your illustration/photo to accompany the excerpt is just a treat to see. Really beautiful work – the colours, shapes and subjects, love it so much! 🤩😍😀
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😀 you are very kind! thank you.
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Beautiful photo, Sylvia. Creating order with a sense of future. As opposed to chaos.
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Thank you Curt 🙂
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You are so talented! What a beautiful creation to go with this lovely excerpt.
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Thank you so much Dale!!
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I love this so much I want to re-blog it but inside a blog post of mine. Would you be happy with that and what exactly would you want me to reference it as. I would link back to you in any case but I want to get it right. However if you don’t want that to happen then that is fine. It is a beautiful piece of work. I tried to reply before this but I think I stuffed it up.
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I meant your photo.
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Oh yes, that would be perfectly fine Amorina. (thank you for asking) The image is a graphic illustration that also uses one of my photos, so just “illustration/photo” seems to sum it up. When I just label this kind of work “illustration”, people get confused because of the photo. In any case, thank you for liking the image!
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… the promise of continuity as opposed to decay…
How true!
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yes 🙂
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