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 from the series "Critical Visual Languagel" Art Statement Primarily concerned with visual language, which existed before writing. That said, the long awaited ‘death of painting’ is an unrealistic expectation. The science of non-verbal discourse confirms that painting says things whose subtleties are lost when put into words. That said, I also a journalist and a critical writer at the intersection of art and politics. In visual art just as in music, we awaken to conversations within conversations; we experience patterns, sequences, bridges, opposition and harmonies, we feel melodic, periodic, or melancholic as the work moves us. Music is a language, an acoustic language, just as visual language describes things whose subtlety is lost when explained in words. Since the intellect is but one mode, that of verbal language, art touches another level when it includes that which cannot be explained. |