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Why do artists create art? And what circumstances influence their work? 

Art historian Michael Baxandall suggested seeing art as a solution to a problem, where necessities of different kinds “charge” the urge to create it. Accordingly, he saw art historians’ role as giving an account of the factors which brought forth and shaped the finished artwork. I painted on pages 30-31 in Jan von Bonsdorff’s articleContinue reading “Why do artists create art? And what circumstances influence their work? “

Using an Emoji in a Caption of a Painting

I recently started to use an emoji of a book in the captions of my paintings for my art project at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto, titled “Word and Image Relationships at the CRRS Library.” Traditionally, we see images and captions as counterparts, where the image provides aContinue reading “Using an Emoji in a Caption of a Painting”